Or should that be AMD have launched their Public Beta for v2.0 of their Stream Software Development Kit. The headline news here is that this is an OpenCL SDK. That’s the good news. The disappointing news is that there is only support for an OpenCL CPU runtime at the moment. We have to wait for a post v2.0-beta2 to ship later in Q3 of 2009 to get to grips with the GPU enabled version.

AMD have also posted the first in a series of Tutorials on using OpenCL, written by Ben Gaster who is the OpenCL Architect at AMD (and incidentally an ex-colleague of mine ).