Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced the new AMD FireStream 9270 compute accelerator and the latest version of its free and open ATI Stream Software Development Kit, or SDK, version 1.3.
The company said that both are designed to help researchers, technical professionals and IT organizations use mainstream computing.
According to AMD, the AMD FireStream 9270 delivers supercomputing-class performance, deployable in a wide variety of server and workstation configurations. It has a typical board power requirement of only 160 watts, yet provides over 1.2 teraFLOPS of single-point precision performance and over 240 gigaFLOPS of double-point precision performance. It also includes two gigabytes of Graphics Double Data Rate, version 5 memory for greater overall data throughput and processing of larger data sets.
The AMD FireStream 9270 comes with a three-year limited warranty.
Version 1.3 of the free ATI Stream SDK includes extensive enhancements to help ease development of ATI Stream-enabled applications capable of running on a broader range of AMD graphics hardware, including AMD FireStream 9250 and AMD FireStream 9270 compute accelerators, ATI FirePro V5700 and ATI FirePro V8700 workstation graphics accelerators, and ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards.
The company expects to release Version 1.3 of the free ATI Stream SDK in conjunction with the ATI Catalyst v8.12 software driver, which is planned to include ATI Stream software enablement allowing millions of users of ATI Radeon graphics cards to run ATI Stream-enabled applications. Version 1.3 of the ATI Stream SDK also includes significant improvements to the Brook+ runtime and kernel language, allowing for increased stability, flexibility and performance when compared to prior version of the SDK.
Both the AMD FireStream 9270 compute accelerator and ATI Stream SDK v1.3 are planned to be available in late fourth quarter of 2008.
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