AMD India has launched the first Faculty Development Program for OpenCL available in India. The three-day workshop was organized in partnership with Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), Coimbatore, India and was the first of its kind to be organized in the country.

This workshop was attended by faculty members from various Engineering and Technology universities and colleges including CIT, SSN, Bharathiar University, Bharathidasan University-Technology Park, Amrita University, Avinashilingam University, SRM University, Anna University (CEG) - Chennai, PSG College of Technology, The American College, Karpagam University, Lady Dock College, Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Engineering and RV College of Engineering.

The program is targeted towards the OpenCL (Open Computing Language) standard, which is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of Central Processing Units (CPUs), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and other processors. Faculty members were trained in the subject using AMD’s University Kit, a set of materials that can be leveraged by any.

This effort underscores AMD’s commitment to the educational community, which currently includes a number of research initiatives, created to equip the next generation of software developers and programmers with the knowledge needed to lead the era of heterogeneous computing. OpenCL, the only non-proprietary, royalty-free industry standard available today for true heterogeneous computing, helps developers to harness the full compute power of both the CPU and GPU to create innovative applications for vivid computing experiences.