Lucid VR develops 3D 180-degree VR cameras that amps up Virtual Reality (VR) content creation by adding 3D stereoscopic imaging to a VR video capture at a price point that makes VR cameras available to the masses. Videos from Lucid VR cameras can be viewed immediately after capture on a cell phone or any Virtual Reality headset. Further, using the camera requires little effort … [Read more...]
Code Modernization Efforts Deliver a 32.9X Speedup in STAC-A2™ Financial Industry Standard Benchmarks
Global financial industry leaders such as Citi and J.P. Morgan have acknowledged they are currently modernizing their code via collaborative efforts with the Intel Software and Solutions Group. Results reported in the recent presentation, Intel’s New STAC A2 Results and Speeding Up FX LSV Monte Carlo case study[1], demonstrate an overall 32.9X speedup in the financial industry … [Read more...]
3D XPoint Memory Poised to Revolutionize System Memory and Storage
3D XPoint™ memory (pronounced 3d cross-point) is a new nonvolatile, memory technology co-developed by Intel and Micron that can deliver, “Up to 4x system memory capacity at significantly lower cost than DRAM”, a hundred times lower latency than today’s best performing NAND, and write cycle durability that is 1000x that of NAND. The 3D XPoint memory technology is … [Read more...]
SC15 Excitement! Bright Computing Provisions and Manages HPC and Cloud Clusters Worldwide
The Bright Computing booth was a bustling hub of happy activity at SC15. Solving cluster deployment issues "headache free" has brought Bright Computing to the forefront in the under-appreciated world of HPC and cloud provisioning as well as generated a global customer (and fan) base. In short, Bright Computing provides comprehensive software solutions for provisioning and … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s CEO Cuts to the Chase at SC15 about Accelerated Computing and Deep-learning
NVidia's President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave a short but very clear presentation in the NVidia booth at Supercomputing 2015 about accelerated computing and the impact of deep-learning. In short, look for HPC dominance and a technology transfer that will replace the browser and drive your car. "Moore's Law is utterly irrelevant" Huang said. With over $10 billion of … [Read more...]
PGI/NVIDIA To Develop LLVM-based Open-Source Fortran Compiler for NNSA and Possibly OpenPower
PGI (The Portland Group) is working with the NNSA to create an open-source Fortran compiler designed to integrate with the widely used LLVM compiler infrastructure. Recently, PGI announced comparable x86 multicore OpenACC performance as compared the the Intel compiler using OpenMP. This move ensure that PGI will have access to the latest and best information about the AVX-512 … [Read more...]
Los Alamos Orders 1000+ Qubit D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is continuing an aggressive program to stretch the limits of current computational technology. LANL is a participant in the NNSA Trinity supercomputer procurement with hardware already installed. In addition, LANL has just announced the purchase of a D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer. The D-Wave 2X system is expected to be installed at Los Alamos … [Read more...]
Wonderful Teaching Video – The Zipf Mystery
My ten year old introduced me to the wonderful new video on YouTube, "The Zipf Mystery". It is 20 minutes well spent for all interested in information theory, computer science, computational drug design, social media, machine-learning, and a huge number of other real-world relevant areas of research and application. https://youtu.be/fCn8zs912OE Consider this a form of … [Read more...]
NVIDIA GTC 2015 keynote – Near-term Roadmap is Deep-Learning
The GTC 2015 Keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed an intense focus on Deep-Learning through four topic areas: (1) The official Titan X GPU announcement that noted the 7 TF/s SP and 0.2 TF/s DP device has an excellent arithmetic performance mix for deep-learning, (2) The NVIDIA DIGITS (Deep GPU Training System for Data Scientists) software and custom NVIDIA built … [Read more...]
ACM Paper Observes FPGA, GPU, CPU Energy Efficiency Hierarchy
Sparsh Mittal and Jeff Vetter provide a survey of the comparative energy efficiency of GPUs relative to FPGAs and CPUs in their Jan. 2015 ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) paper, "A Survey of Methods for Analyzing and Improving GPU Energy Efficiency" in which they observe a general energy efficiency hierarchy where, "it is clear that although for majority of works, FPGAs are … [Read more...]