What is ATI Stream Technology?

ATI Stream technology is a set of advanced hardware and software technologies that enable AMD graphics processors (GPU), working in concert with the system’s central processor (CPU), to accelerate many applications beyond just graphics. This enables better balanced platforms capable of running demanding computing tasks faster than ever.

What is the ATI Stream Software Development Kit?

The ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) is a complete development platform created by AMD to allow you to quickly and easily develop applications accelerated by ATI Stream technology. The SDK allows you to develop your applications in a high-level language, OpenCL™ (Open Computing Language).

What is OpenCL™?

OpenCL™ is the first truly open and royalty-free programming standard for general-purpose computations on heterogeneous systems. OpenCL™ allows programmers to preserve their expensive source code investment and easily target both multi-core CPUs and the latest GPUs, such as those from AMD.

Developed in an open standards committee with representatives from major industry vendors, OpenCL™ gives users what they have been demanding: a cross-vendor, non-proprietary solution for accelerating their applications on their CPU and GPU cores.

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What’s New?

What’s New in v2.0-beta2 

• First public beta release of ATI Stream SDK with OpenCL™ CPU support.
• The OpenCL™ 1.0 conformance logs from this release have been submitted to the Khronos OpenCL™ Working Group.
• Several bug fixes and optimizations.
• Brook+ is now available on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/brookplus

System Requirements

Below are a list of operating systems, compilers and processors that our qualification teams have used to test the latest ATI Stream SDK v2.0 beta release.

The SDK may work on configurations that fall outside the list below. However, if your operating system, compiler or processor is not listed below, we recommend that you modify your configuration to a supported configuration for the best possible ATI Stream programming experience.

Supported Operating Systems:

Supported Compilers:

Supported Processors:

• X86 CPU w/ SSE 3.x or later