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AMD 6 Core and compiling open-source projects

I have been wanting to build my own box with AMD 6 core. I have always used Intel based machines and frankly have not done open-source projects. I want to get into that along with Systems programming but am worried if open-source projects (mainly Linux based) are going to be a problem to compile on AMD? How difficult is porting (if it ...

OpenCV and AMD processors

I know that in the past OpenCV was based on IPP and was optimized to run on Intel CPUs. Is this still the case with OpenCV 2.0? Thanks, SW. ...

Motherboard compatible with AMD 2 X2 250 Processor

Please suggest a motherboard that is compatible with AMD 2 X2 250 processor and if a value for money. The budget are tight so need one that is affordable and yet dependable ...

[AMD CodeAnalyst] which params show cache misses?

I need to know which parts of my code make the most cache misses.. suggest which parameters of the profiling report I need to monitor, there are too many of them there ^_^ ...

How do I prefetch a pointer in C, targeting AMD Opteron 6168?

I am writing a multi-threaded program in C where one core periodically grabs an item from the head of a linked list while other cores append items to the back of the list (using CAS magic for thread safety, someone else provided that for me). It appears that my program will run faster if the core taking an item from the head of the list...