In a press event yesterday, AMD announced the next generation Fusion chips they are working on, and a tiny little note on a one slide mentioned a new tool from Microsoft called AMP. Over on the NVidia blog, they give a few more details about it: It’s a new GPU Programming tool from Microsoft.
Its intent with C++ AMP is to expose C++ language capabilities to millions of Windows developers with the goal of enabling them to take advantage of GPUs. It promises to give millions of C++ developers the option of using Microsoft Visual Studio-based development tools to accelerate applications using the parallel processing power of GPUs. CUDA C and CUDA C++ will continue to be the preferred platform for Linux apps or demanding HPC (high performance computing) applications that need to maximize performance.
