GPU Support in VS C++ v.Next

[nielsb]

Seeing that we have had some threads regarding GPU support / concurrent programming here, I thought I'd share what I came across a while ago regarding GPU / concurrent support in the next version of Visual Studio C++. As a side note, it looks like C++ in the MS world will have a re-surrection, where they are even talking about more importance of old COM (I shudder).

Anyway, here is a couple of links to what I mentioned above:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/C-Accelerated-Massive-Parallelism.aspx
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/C-AMP-Recording-And-Slides.aspx
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Daniel-Moth-Blazing-fast-code-using-GPUs-and-more-with-C-AMP

Have fun!
Niels

 

[Daniel Duffy]

It is high time that GPU and C++ start talking, indeed.

In general, you don't need COM; ATL is a template wrapper library for COM.

At this rate, C++ will definitely be around forever

 

[nielsb]

It is high time that GPU and C++ start talking, indeed.

In general, you don't need COM; ATL is a template wrapper library for COM.

At this rate, C++ will definitely be around forever

Hi Daniel,

Yes, I totally agree with you regarding GPU and C++.

As for ATL - I used to teach it back in the days

Anyway, it will be interesting to follow the development of this, as well as seeing what the future of .NET will look like.

Niels

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Hi Niels,
I hope this Microsoft effort is a big success because it will bring monster computing power to C++ with GPU as back-end. Hook GPU up to Excel?

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Hope you don't mind a question.
BTW I use STL for Excel COM Addins for Comp. Fin. I can do a SINK_MAP for 1 button, but how does one get multiple buttons into the Tools menu?
Thanks

Daniel

 

[nielsb]

BTW I use STL for Excel COM Addins for Comp. Fin. I can do a SINK_MAP for 1 button, but how does one get multiple buttons into the Tools menu?

Hi Daniel,
Sorry I cannot help you there - I have not been doing any C++ / STL/COM against Excel, in any shape or form. I can ask around though ...
Niels

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Hi Daniel,
Sorry I cannot help you there - I have not been doing any C++ / STL/COM against Excel, in any shape or form. I can ask around though ...
Niels

Sorry Niels. I meant ATL, not STL

Demo 2 show the idea with 1 button.

 

[KaiRu]

In addition to AMP from Microsoft AMD had announced gDEBugger.

http://developer.amd.com/tools/gDEBugger/Pages/default.aspx

AMD gDEBugger is an OpenCL™ and OpenGL debugger and memory analyzer integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio.gDEBugger offers real-time OpenCL kernel debugging, which allows developers to step into the kernel execution directly from the API call that issues it, debug inside the kernel, view all variable values across the different work groups and work items - and all this on a single computer with a single GPU

Few screens are below:

http://developer.amd.com/tools/gDEBugger/PublishingImages/4_api_statistics_view.png
http://developer.amd.com/tools/gDEBugger/PublishingImages/5_object_visualization.png

 

[ANielsen]

what new does AMP offer in comparison with cuda or say openCL ?