The company Advanced Micro Devices has released a beta version of a tool for developing programs designed to perform in multi-core processors. OpenCL processor will be part of a software product ATI AMD Stream version 2.0, allowing easy and convenient to create different applications. OpenCL is a special standard, developed under the leadership of Khronos Group for parallel programming for multicore processors and graphics chips. The first version of the standard was developed with the active participation of Apple Inc.

Currently in New Orleans an exhibition of Siggraph 2009, at which the various manufacturers, including Intel, NVIDIA and AMD / ATI, show their pictures developed. The appearance of the beta version of Stream 2.0 is a significant step forward for AMD. Using this tool OpenCL should help developers of software and tools to facilitate the establishment, using all possible multi-core processors. during the year, the highly skilled computer professionals to create a new model of programming needed for the future of processors that can handle both 10, 20 or more data streams.

Using the Stream can be set up running as a Microsoft Windows, as well as under Linux. Company AMD is planning up to the end of this year to release the final version of a tool for programming, which includes OpenCL and allows to create programs for the processors and chips for graphics cards. Rick Bergman (Rick Bergman), senior vice president of AMD, said that "thanks to the support of multicore processors and the GPU of the environment with OpenCL, developers can effectively write cross-platform applications for a heterogeneous architecture with a single programming interface."