ATI Stream Quarterly Newsletter packed full of OpenCL information and resources

The ATI Stream Quarterly Newsletter is now online. With the recent release of the OpenCL GPU Beta as part of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 Beta Program, this quarterly is packed full of OpenCL information and resources.

Here is a summary of what you will find:

• OpenCL CPU+GPU Beta Release
• Introductory Tutorial to OpenCL with Benedict Gaster
• AMD Developer Inside Track: Introduction to OpenCL with Michael Houston
• Image Convolution Using OpenCL – A Step-by-Step Tutorial
• OpenCL Tutorial – N-Body Simulation
• Spotlight Application: Distributed RC5 Encryption with ATI Stream
• AMD and SiSoftware Collaborate on OpenCL Industry Benchmark Suite
• Tips and Tricks: Porting CUDA Applications to OpenCL
• Coming Soon! OpenCL Technical Overview Video Series
• Coming in December! CAPS to release AMD CAL/IL Backend for HMPP
• Available Now! ATI Stream Development Platforms from Colfax and Exxact
• Developer Training Program: OpenCL Course from VizExperts

Related GPGPU benchmarking suite released: The new Sandra 2010 benchmark suite for GPGPU computing enables testing of ATI Stream, Cuda, OpenCL and DX11 Compute Shaders. SiSoft published some initial benchmarks and the showstopper was the performance of the new Radeon 5870 running OpenCL. Quote from the test results page: “Pummels everything into dust with fantastic performance, power and cost efficiency. The very best!”