From EETimes: Kaveri client and Berlin server processors will be the first chips from Advanced Micro Devices to use technology from the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Foundation, AMD said at its developer conference here. AMD launched the HSA Foundation with partners to define common ways for GPUs and CPUs to share SoC resources such as memory.
AMD's Kaveri SoCs will be launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in January and ship later in the month, initially serving desktops and notebooks. Versions for embedded and server markets will follow later.
The Berlin server processors will ship before July and will provide GPU cores for parallel processing jobs. AMD also announced a suite of software developer kits and tools from third parties for using HSA techniques on its processors.
Other new tools supporting HSA features on AMD chips include:
- An updated software developer kit from AMD
- A GCC/HSA project for the GCC Linux compiler and OpenMP APIs
- The PGI Accelerator compiler for Fortran, C, and C++ programs on Linux and Windows
- OpenCL Math to speed up scientific and engineering computations
- ArrayFire 2.0 for OpenCL, a fast math library from AccelerEyes
- CodeXL, an AMD tool suite for Linux and Windows
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