AMD breidt tools en support voor ontwikkelaars uit (Engels)

dinsdag 15 mei 2007

AMD Releases expanded tools and support for developers to fully utilize
three generations of multi-core AMD64 Systems

AMD's Developer Center offers Smith v2.0, PGI compilers, and robust tier one
testing systems including native quad-core "Barcelona" processors 

Sunnyvale, California - May 15, 2007 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced new
and upcoming upgrades to its AMD Developer Center facility. Beginning this
quarter, AMD will offer customers and technology partners easier-than-ever
access to a testing environment that will span all three generations of
multi-core AMD Opteron processors including the Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor, code-named "Barcelona." 

To address the growing need for applications that are optimized for
multi-core processor environments, the AMD Developer Center offers customers
and technology partners access to fully configured Dual-Core AMD Opteron
clusters and servers to develop, test and optimize applications. The Center
provides developers with an easy path from single- to dual- and soon
quad-core processors as demand for more data processing power increases.
"The AMD Developer Center was designed with the software eco-system in
mind," said Terri Hall, vice president, Software Alliances and Solutions,
AMD. "These new offerings ensure the AMD Developer Center caters to a wide
range of customers and technology partners and their diverse needs. From
financial services companies managing large trading applications, to media
companies running rendering farms, to individual developers looking to stay
competitive by harnessing the processing power of multi-core applications,
the AMD Developer Center is a vital resource for software developers around
the world looking to tune their software to harness the full power of
multi-core computing."

Later in Q207, the AMD Developer Center will offer a platform to test
software applications on the upcoming Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, in
addition to the current first- and second-generation AMD Opteron testing
platforms. Because of the seamless migration path between its Dual-Core and
Quad-Core processors, AMD will be able to offer customers and developers the
ability to get a head start on testing and optimizing their applications for
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. In addition, AMD is actively working with
leading software tools vendors and the open source software community to
deliver tools that help developers utilize the multi-core benefits of the
latest generations of AMD Opteron processors. The GNU Compiler Collection
(GCC) and The Portland GroupTM (PGI) newly released high-performance
compilers and tools are some examples that now support the AMD Quad-Core
processors. The 7.0-3 release of PGI compilers offers an environment to
create optimized code for AMD Quad-Core technology. PGI compilers also offer
a development environment that can generate a single PGI Unified BinaryTM
that is fully optimized for both AMD and Intel processors, giving developers
all the benefits of a single x64 platform to leverage the latest processor
innovations.

AMD is working with Microsoft and Sun to ensure that their popular
development tools, Microsoft Visual Studio and Sun Studio software, will
also provide support code optimization for AMD Quad-Core processors. AMD is
also updating its performance libraries, the AMD Core Math Library (ACML)
and the AMD Performance Library (APL), to provide highly optimized routines
for AMD Quad-Core Processors. The AMD Developer Center provides richly
configured systems for developing and testing multi-threaded application
environments. The latest enhancements which are available today
include:     

An upgraded Smith v2.0 cluster: Built in conjunction with technology
partners Colfax International, Mellanox Technologies, W.L. Gore &
Associates, Inc., and QLogic Corporation, the upgraded cluster consists of
40 nodes of Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors on an InfiniBand DDR
Network. The 160 AMD Opteron Model 8220 processors combined with DDR
InfiniBand have yielded an efficiency rating of over 84-percent with all 40
nodes on the industry standard benchmark HPL. This cluster provides
customers and technology partners with a test bed for their most demanding
compute-intensive applications.

An upgraded Emerald cluster: The Emerald cluster in the AMD Developer Center
has been upgraded to AMD Opteron Series 290 processors, resulting in a
30-percent performance increase while keeping power and cooling needs the
same as the previous system. Customers and technology partners will find
this cluster useful for developing and testing datacenter-class
applications.

A total of more than 80 Dell SC1435 and Sun Fire X4100 servers: These fast,
reliable platforms are geared toward individual developers wanting to gain
experience running software on AMD hardware, conduct performance testing,
and tune their applications.  These systems will be the first clusters
available for remote benchmarking that will be upgraded to AMD's upcoming
"Barcelona" quad core processors. Customers and technology partners
worldwide can access the AMD Developer Center to test on AMD multi-core
systems working onsite or remotely. AMD's Developer Center is actively
working with the software ecosystem to create an environment to help ease
code testing and development as well as make sure that tools and systems are
available to help utilize the multi-core benefits of AMD's Barcelona
processors. "AMD helps developers transition into a multi-core world," said
Prashant Sridharan, Director of Marketing, Visual Studio, Microsoft.  "With
these software tools and testing capabilities, the AMD Developer Center
helps Visual Studio developers harness AMD's world-class hardware for
building reliable next-generation applications on Windows Vista™ and
Windows® Server coded named 'Longhorn'." Established in 2002 and located in
Sunnyvale, California, the AMD Developer Center delivers incomparable
services and infrastructure to support customers looking to create or
upgrade HPC environments and enterprise applications based on AMD64
technology. For more information about the AMD Developer Center, visit
http://devcenter.amd.com.

posted by Ward @ 17:30