 In November 2015, AMD announced the "Boltzmann Initiative".The AMD Boltzmann Initiative shall enable the porting of CUDA-based applications to a common C++ programming model.At the "Super Computing 15" AMD showed their Heterogeneous Compute Compiler (HCC), a headless Linux driver and HSA runtime infrastructure for cluster-class, High Performance Computing (HPC) and the Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability (HIP) tool for porting CUDA-based applications to a common C++ programming model.