AMD multi-core programming

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.

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开发者_如何学运维 experience?

OpenMP and TBB are both available also for AMD - it is also a compiler question. E.g. see linux TBB on AMD.
I think the latest development on this end is to use the graphic card via CUDA or similar APIs- but this depends on the nature of your calculations. If it fits, it is faster than the CPU anyway.