[tdf-announce] AMD joins The Document Foundation Advisory Board to accelerate LibreOffice

AMD joins The Document Foundation Advisory Board to accelerate LibreOffice

Berlin, July 3rd, 2013 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that 
AMD is now a member of its Advisory Board. AMD is a leading designer and 
integrator of pioneering technologies that are at the heart of the 
digital devices people use and experience daily, pushing the boundaries 
of what is possible.

"It is great to work on LibreOffice with The Document Foundation to 
expose the raw power of AMD GPUs and APUs, initially to spreadsheet 
users," said Manju Hegde, corporate vice president, Heterogeneous 
Solutions at AMD. "Bringing the parallelism and performance of our 
technology to traditional, mainstream business software users will be a 
welcome innovation for heavy duty spreadsheet users, particularly when 
combined with the compute capabilities of the upcoming generation of AMD 
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) based products."

"It is exciting to work together with AMD and their ecosystem to take 
advantage of AMD's cutting edge innovation right inside LibreOffice," 
said Michael Meeks, SUSE Distinguished Engineer and TDF Board Member, 
"The growth in performance and parallelism available in the GPUs of 
today, and particularly with AMD's revolutionary APUs of tomorrow, is 
something we're eager to expose to LibreOffice users."

HSA is an innovative computing architecture that enables CPU, GPU and 
other processors to work together in harmony on a single piece of 
silicon by seamlessly moving the right tasks to the best suited 
processing element. This makes it possible for larger, more complex 
applications to take advantage of the power that has traditionally been 
reserved for more focused tasks. While the biggest impact will be for 
AMD APU users, supporting benefits of the work will improve the 
LibreOffice core data structures enabling larger spreadsheets to 
calculate faster for all users. This is only the start of exposing the 
power of the HSA enabled APU to business users providing better 
analytics and decision making across the board from finance to science.

With the addition of AMD, the Advisory Board of The Document Foundation 
now has eleven members: 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 e.V.


About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era 
of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD Accelerated 
Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. 
AMD’s server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading 
cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD’s superior graphics 
technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game 
consoles, PCs to supercomputers. For more information, visit 
http://www.amd.com.


About The Document Foundation (TDF)

The Document Foundation is the entity behind the popular LibreOffice 
Office Suite. It is an open, independent, self-governing, meritocratic 
organization, which builds on ten years of dedicated work by the 
OpenOffice.org Community. TDF was created in the belief that the culture 
born of an independent foundation brings out the best in corporate and 
volunteer contributors, and will deliver the best free office suite. TDF 
is open to any individual who agrees with its core values and 
contributes to its activities, and warmly welcomes corporate 
participation, e.g. by sponsoring individuals to work as equals 
alongside other contributors in the community. As of April 30, 2013, TDF 
has over 150 members and over 2,000 volunteers and contributors worldwide.


Media Contacts TDF

Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1)
 Phone: +49 8341 99660880 - Mobile: +49 151 14424108
 E-mail: floeff@documentfoundation.org

Charles H. Schulz (based in Paris, France, UTC+1)
 Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org

Eliane Domingos de Sousa (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3)
 E-mail: elianedomingos@documentfoundation.org - Skype: elianedomingos

Italo Vignoli (based in Milan, Italy, UTC+1)
 Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org
 Skype: italovignoli - GTalk: italo.vignoli@gmail.com


Media Contact AMD

Kristen Lisa
 Phone: +1 (512) 602 6020
 E-Mail: kristen.lisa@amd.com

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