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Microsoft Opens C++ Extension for Other Compilers
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 02/07/2012 10:14 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units).
From PCWorld:
Microsoft Opens C++ Extension for Other Compilers
"What we see is more and more people are looking to take advantage of the GPU in their applications," said Tony Goodhew, a Microsoft product manager for Visual Studio.
The purpose of C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism, first developed for Visual Studio 11 and released along with a developer preview of that software in September, is to allow mainstream C++ developers to write their programs to run in parallel across heterogenous computing environments.
The purpose of C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism, first developed for Visual Studio 11 and released along with a developer preview of that software in September, is to allow mainstream C++ developers to write their programs to run in parallel across heterogenous computing environments.
Microsoft Opens C++ Extension for Other Compilers
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