LibreOffice and AMD come together

The foundation behind LibreOffice, The Document Foundation (TDF), has announced that AMD has joined the foundation’s advisory committee. The goal of the collaboration is primarily to leverage the performance and parallel processing capability offered by AMD GPUs and APUs to manage spreadsheets, helping those working with complex spreadsheets. It’s important to mention that the truly dramatic advancement can be seen with next-generation APUs, where HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) gives unified memory access to the graphics core and processor, creating entirely new opportunities for programmers.

As mentioned above, the spreadsheet is currently being renewed, but in the future, it is easy to imagine that the presentation maker named Impress will also capitalize on the computing potential of Radeon cores. Because the work has been going on for months, some of the improvements may already appear in the 4.1 release of LibreOffice, but the major changes will be in version 4.2.

Incidentally, with AMD’s entry, membership in The Document Foundation’s advisory board has grown to 11. The list of members now looks like this: AMD, Google, RedHat, SUSE, Intel, Lanedo, the King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), the Inter-Ministry Mutalisation for an Open Productivity Suite (MIMO), the Free Software Foundation (FSF ), Software in the Public Interest and Freies Office Deutschland eV [libreoffice]