AMD lets Stream author go
AMD'S LATEST JOB cuts had some rather unexpected casualties. The one that really shocked us was John McCalpin, you know the guy who invented Stream.
He went to AMD barely two years ago, and now he is gone. Letting your senior supercomputing guru go about a week before the Supercomputing 08 conference isn't exactly brilliant timing, but we are guessing the move was not entirely aimed at him.
In any case, he is sure to turn up somewhere interesting soon, people of this calibre always do. If you want to find him, the easiest place to run into him, Supercomputing 08 aside, is in America's Army v2.8.4, "Bridge Crossing" map.
Ask "StupidIdiot" for his CV if he doesn't headshot you before you get the opportunity. µ
Update
Stream is a long time benchmark for HPC type applications. It is not the ATI
Stream GPGPU stuff, nor is it related in any way. John McCalpin, as far as we
know had nothing to do with ATI Stream, just his Stream. Sorry for the crossed
Streams, Zuul will not be crossing over any more.
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Because other than DirectX, their software development/support sucks.
If it wasn't for CUDA, GPGPU now would be in the glacial era.
Holy crap. He's a relative of mine. It doesn't make any sense that he'd get laid off though... eh, I can call him up later and ask him about it.
Why are they still wasting money on these silly APIs?! Just open up the damn GPU when the horse race for next gen console is over. Some people somewhere will do something useful with it. Then they can finally show some value from that $5B deal.
Titius, the "Stream" that the article references is _this_ stream:
http://www.streambench.org/

Not related to the "AMD Stream SDK" altogether.
Kudos for putting the corrective update on the same page, the inq so often doesn't bother.

p.s. america's army is such a creepy game, much too us-governmenty, when I tried it I felt my hairs stand on end, I'd not advise that game for non-US (-republicans), even though it has a good engine and is free.

I buy ATI because the technology is the best and it works on Windows and Linux, and I want DX10.1 and I want it to work one week after the warranty runs out.