title: AMD multi-core programming
body: <p>I want to start  to write applications(C++) that will utilize the additional cores to execute portions of the code that have a need to perform lots of calculations and whose computations are independent of each other. I have the following processor : x64 Family 15 Model 104 Stepping 2 Authentic AMD ~1900 Mhz running on Windows Vista Home premium 32 bit and Opensuse 11.0 64 bit.</p>
  
  <p>On the Intel platforms , I've used the following APIs Intel TBB, OpenMP. Do they work on AMD and does AMD have similar APIs.what has been your experience?</p>