New C++ AMP will feature GPU compute

Posted by Robert Dow on June 16th 2011 | Comments Closed
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At the AMD Fusion Developer Summit in Seattle Microsoft's Herb Sutter, Principal Architect, Native Languages and resident C++ guru gave an important keynote. Mr. Sutter's talk was centered around heterogeneous computing and the changes coming with future versions of Visual Studio and C++. Microsoft's new C++ AMP will take advantage of all compute resources CPU, integrated GPU and discrete GPU resources.

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