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AMD Launches the OPENCL™ Coding Competition!

Posted by chelseablues on June 17, 2011


Announcing the AMD OpenCL™ coding competition! Here’s your chance to get hands-on experience withheterogeneous computing and the award-winning AMD Fusion accelerated processing unit (APU) architecture.
We’ll be judging the submission here at TopCoder in the following OpenCL™ application development categories (as well as others!):

Video & Image Processing

Security

Human Computer Interface

Data Mining

Gaming

Physics processing

Social Networking

Communication

Other

Developers and students who choose to participate will be asked to submit an abstract that outlines how they plan to use the latest generation AMD APP software development kit (SDK) with OpenCL support to create an accelerated application for the AMD Fusion APU platforms.

For full details and a complete set of Official Rules, visit http://community.topcoder.com/amdapp/

The OpenCL™ Coding Competition is open to all software developers with great ideas. And the one of the best parts? Up to $50,000 in prizes will be awarded to winning submissions!

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