Manipulation of images is an excellent scenario for GPU computation. Apart from Aviary , we were pleased to know that PrecisionImage.NET SDK also uses C++ AMP for their GPU computation. Their blog post, Image Processing with NVidia's GTX Titan , delineates...

We are delighted to announce that CMA wrote an addendum to C++ AMP case study, detailing their problem and how they used C++ AMP. For context, we do recommend reading the C++ AMP case study, Financial Data Leader Shortens Time-to-Market, Increases Speed...

Continuing with our series on how C++ AMP is being used, we are happy to highlight how C++ AMP is used for GPU Benchmarking. SystemCompute is an in-house benchmark developed by Dr. Ian Cutress of AnandTech . Once we came to know that the GPU version of...

Verity software is a software company providing flow cytometry analysis software and we are pleased to learn that they are currently integrating C++ AMP into their high end application called GemStone . You can learn more about how GemStone works by watching...

Aviary is a photo editing SDK Company that "provides developers with a robust, customizable photo editor that can be plugged into applications on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, HTML5 and Windows 8 in minutes". We are delighted that Aviary is using C++ AMP...

We are happy to announce that the newest feature, Kinect Fusion in the Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7 runs on C++ AMP . Kinect Fusion is a tool that uses Kinect for Windows sensor to create highly accurate 3-D renderings of people and objects in real time...

We recently announced the availability of C++ AMP GPU debugging on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms. Now that the RTM version of Windows 7 platform update has been released, we are happy to announce the availability of one more feature:...

We would like to give a shout out to a C++ AMP case study we released couple of months ago. The case study talks about how CMA , a company that develops pricing solutions and financial data services, used C++ AMP to deliver a faster pricing mechanism...

If you have tried to run C++ AMP program in Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8 in debug configuration, you might have noticed that after a successful execution there are DXGI warnings reported in the output window. Long story short – there is nothing...

The GPU debugger in Visual Studio 2012 (VS2012) can be extended by hardware vendors to debug directly on GPU hardware rather than on a software emulator. Nvidia has built such an extension and has made it publicly available as part of Nsight 3.0 ( Nsight...

Support for GPU debugging on Windows 7 platform has been a popular request from our customers. Now, we are pleased to announce that by installing the following platform update , you can try out GPU debugging on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms...

Our friends at Intel have been working on a project called Shevlin Park , which is a proof of concept project that augments CLANG and LLVM with C++ AMP, and uses OpenCL as its underlying compute driver substrate.  Dillon Sharlet from Intel presented...

If you’re in Chicago or thereabouts in December, our friends at Acceleware are offering their C++ AMP training during the week of December 11 – 14th.  We participated in one of their trainings in Redmond back in July and can attest to the high quality...

The C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller is now in print and available online and in good bookstores! It is a great place to start if you’re looking to get up and running with C++ AMP. You can read a preview and buy the book on both the Amazon...

In this blog post I am going to describe a few discrepancies between floating-point behavior on the host-side and that on the accelerator-side in C++ AMP. This post will be of interest to anyone who pays attention to the floating-point accuracy and correctness...

parallel_for_each and copy are among the most common accelerator operations performed in C++ AMP code. A parallel_for_each invocation denotes the execution of a data parallel C++ AMP kernel on a specific accelerator_view , while a copy invocation denotes...

In this blog post I am going to share with you a string matching sample and describe the inner workings of the algorithm. On my machine with NVIDIA GTX580 the C++ AMP algorithm that I present below achieves up to 35X speedup over the std::strstr algorithm...

In the previous post we looked at how you can specify the read-only restriction for array_view / array data collections in your C++ AMP code. In this part, we will look at the benefits of specifying the read-only restriction for your data collections...

In this blog post, I will share a C++ AMP implementation of a fractal generator, rendering 4 dimensional Quaternion Julia fractals . I’ll show you screenshots of the app, then we’ll dive into the code, and then I’ll share a pointer of...

concurrency::array_view and concurrency::array are the most common vehicles for reading and writing data collections in your C++ AMP code. Often in your C++ AMP kernels or parts of your host code, some of the referenced data collections are purely inputs...

Hello, my name is Jonathan Emmett and I’m a developer on the C++ AMP team. In this post I’ll be talking about the problems with mutable lambdas and function objects with non-const function call operators in C++ AMP kernels. There are a number...

Visual Studio 2012 includes the first release of the C++ AMP technology and hopefully by now you have had a chance to learn about and even better try your hands at it. We would like you to know that this first release is just a beginning and our team...

One of the case study samples in the C++ AMP book is called Cartoonizer and you can grab the code for it on the book's codeplex download page . To understand the code, you can walk through the freely available aforementioned download on your own, or you...

In this blog post, we present a sample about antenna radiation pattern simulation. Aside from minor tweaks that we made, this was written for us by EM Photonics who offer C++ AMP consultancy . First I’ll describe the app, then the algorithm, and...

So you are a newbie to C++ AMP – you know nothing and want to quickly get started, we have you covered – keep on reading! Step 1 – Do this first! While it is typical for many to learn a new technology by writing your own "Hello World", if you...