AMD & Adobe: A Software Optimization Story

Justin Boggs, Sofware Engineer CPU
Thomas Fortier, Software Engineer Graphics

Justin Boggs and Thomas Fortier are AMD software engineers that work with Adobe to make sure their software is optimized for AMD. This video footage was taken earlier this year when they were part of an Adobe Users group multithreading panel. Hear what they had to say about AMD CPU and GPU optimizations with Adobe . (9:37)

Vision Launch Recap: A Developer’s Perspective

Check out the AMD VISION launch event from a software developer perspective. Get the details about DirectX 11 development straight from Codemasters, Rebellion, EA and Turbine. You’ll see six monitors being driven from one graphics card, get the info on the new DX11 games coming up and more importantly, learn about the new levels of graphical detail that DX11 hardware can bring to the table.

Many thanks to Gareth Thomas, Senior Programmer from Codemasters, Chris Kingsley, CTO of Rebellion, Kevin O’Leary, Product Manager of EA and Nate Jones, VP of Corporate Business Development at Turbine. (5:55)

Learn about OpenCL, what the transition to OpenCL will be like, what applications are ideal for OpenCL and what impact OpenCL will have on future software. Read this blog post  for a summary of this video and some example applications and demos (10:07).

Experts from AMD, Allinea, Pervasive, and Rogue Wave give their advice and insights for what they recommend when beginning a multithreaded project, whether you are starting from scratch or working with existing single threaded code.  Parallel programming issues are not a one-size-fits-all.  Depending on the algorithm, the data dependencies, and the problem domain there are different approaches to achieving parallelism.  These expert interviews followed an AMD-sponsored  multithreading discussion at CommunityOne 2009 West (12:06).