AMD APP SDK

AMD APP SDK is a <a href="/facts/Software_development_kit/2Hkk6Hbs">software development kit</a> by AMD for "Accelerated Parallel Processing" (APP). AMD APP SDK also targets <a href="/facts/Heterogeneous_System_Architecture/uwayMPnT">Heterogeneous System Architecture</a> (not only GPU).
AMD APP SDK was available for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and Linux but was removed from AMD's official website. A developer stated in a forum post that the SDK was discontinued as the required libraries are now included with the drivers.
AMD intends developers to employ AMD APP SDK to utilize <a href="/facts/Video_Coding_Engine/4L5MLb6K">Video Coding Engine</a> hybrid mode to create hybrid encoders that pair custom motion estimation, inverse discrete cosine transform and motion compensation with the hardware entropy encoding to achieve faster than real-time encoding.
The AMD APP SDK v3.0 supports OpenCL 2.0 and Catalyst Omega 15.7 driver, also it includes samples for <a href="/facts/OpenCL/ns8y6np7">OpenCL</a> as well as accelerated libraries such as Bolt (an open-source C++ template library) and the OpenCL accelerated <a href="/facts/OpenCV/V1tXAxyz">OpenCV</a> (Open Computer Vision) library. This last version can be downloaded with the aid of <a href="/facts/StackOverflow/HqsBeyHX">StackOverflow</a>.

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AMD APP SDK