AMD's Boltzmann Initiative could make HPC development easier
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AMD wants to make software development easier for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, like those based on its FirePro S9170. At SC15 this week, AMD is showing off a set of tools called the Boltzmann Initiative that it says will help developers move CUDA-based applications to C++, and make HPC development more accessible to a wider audience.
The most important part of the Boltzmann Initiative seems to be a Heterogeneous Compute Compiler (HCC) for C++. The company says the HCC will make HPC applications easier to write because of that language's popularity. The HCC can ...