LibreOffice 4.2 was just released. The most significant addition is a new engine for Calc: massive parallel calculations of formula cells using GPU via OpenCL are now possible thanks to our new formular interpreter. The addition of OpenCL was enabled by AMD and MultiCoreWare.

MulticoreWare has a major presence at AMD Fusion Developer Summit 2012 (AFDS) being held June 11-14 in Bellevue Washington. With twelve presentations and numberous demos at the Experience Zone MulticoreWare is also an AFDS sponsor and Khronos Group member.

The OpenCL hardware acceleration features in the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) were originally developed as part of Google’s Summer of Code in 2009 and 2011 and finished over the winter with sponsorship from AMD and help by MulticoreWare. On supported systems, this feature should greatly speed up processor intensive operations. Users have to start the application with the command line parameter GEGL_USE_OPENCL=yes to use OpenCL.

AMD announced a new collaboration with MulticoreWare, a leader in software solutions and tool development for multi-core and heterogeneous computing environments, to deliver an advanced set of tools for OpenCL™ optimization. The tools development effort accelerates software developers’ ability to create and optimize software that fully exploits the unique processing capability of AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs).