AMD Will Help Create OpenCL Applications Alongside Acceleware

AMD is not just celebrating the award its Fusion technology recently got, but has also announced a partnership meant to allow for the faster creation of the OpenCL standard-compliant applications.

OpenCL is a relatively new standard that allows developers to create programs capable of exploiting, to the fullest, both the CPU and the GPU of a system.

AMD is one of its supporters, to the point where it recently unleashed the OpenCL University Kit of course materials.

These materials are aimed at universities and will allow for the teaching of OpenCL programming course that last for whole semesters.

“The developer community is hungry for more education around open standards for software development, and we’re thrilled to work with AMD on this education series,” said Robert Miller, vice president of marketing and product management for Acceleware.

“We’re tapping top-notch developers to lead our training courses and know that participants will find the sessions to be highly valuable as they continue to build innovative new applications.”

Now, an official announcement reveals that the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker has entered a partnership with Acceleware.

Together, they will assist in the development of software complaint with OpenCL standards for heterogeneous computing across multiple platforms..

“OpenCL helps developers harness the full power of the CPU and GPU to create rich and vivid computing experiences on a wide variety of devices,” said Manju Hegde, corporate vice president, AMD Fusion Experience Program.

“Our work with Acceleware is another example of our commitment to supporting industry standards, and we’re excited to offer OpenCL learning opportunities for professional developers, which complement our previously announced OpenCL University kit.”

Acceleware and AMD will begin hosting training sessions each month, starting in June, 2011. What remains is to see how many people are interested in learning this sort of programming and how quick they are to enlist.