Code modernization is easily the most beneficial, significant, and long-lasting investment the HPC community can make to capitalize on current and future hardware investments. The upcoming Intel IDF15 sees itself as partnership between Intel and code developers, makers, and technologists to bring software into the age of lotsofcores and massive parallelism. Register today … [Read more...]
Windows 10 Arrives – Problematic Nvidia Driver
The free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and 8.x has arrived! It will be rolled out starting with people on the Windows Insider program who participated in the evolution of the new "Windows-as-a-service" policy (jokingly referred to as the "eternal beta"). Apparently, Windows is now a "service", meaning that you will get to keep it free of charge for the lifetime of your machine … [Read more...]
More Trinity Racks Installed
"The proof of the pudding is in the tasting" is coming to fruition for the Trinity procurement as Cray installs more racks of the Trinity self-hosted Intel Knights Landing (KNL) processors. Each set of 12 cabinets is delivered, connected and tested one row at a time, by the Cray installation team. When all the phase-one cabinets have been delivered (60 in all), Cray will … [Read more...]
Intel Xeon Phi Optimization Part 1 of 3: Multi-Threading and Parallel Reduction
This tutorial begins a 3-part series of educational publications on performance optimization in applications for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. In this publication, Ryo Asai (a Researcher at Colfax International) and Andrey Vladimirov (Head of HPC Research at Colfax International) will focus on some aspects of thread parallelism implementation in the OpenMP … [Read more...]
Port Some CUDA Codes To Intel Xeon Phi Simply and Efficiently
This tutorial shows that it relatively easy to port many CUDA C/C++ source codes to OpenMP. In the past, such efforts were not generally considered worthwhile because of the large performance difference between multicore processors (that use OpenMP) and GPUs. The introduction of teraflop/s Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors eliminated that performance difference, which makes it much … [Read more...]
Microsoft Holographic Academy – Great comments, expensive Hololens device to launch with Win10
Previews of Microsoft Hololens show very positive comments and a wildly expensive pricing model with Forbes.com reports Microsoft Hololens will cost significantly more than $400. For that money, preview partners like cnet report, "[t]he experience still leaves me giddy, and ready to toss an as yet undisclosed sum of money into Microsoft's coffers", backed by ubergizo who wrote, … [Read more...]
GCC 5.1 Now Available – Includes Preliminary OpenACC and OpenMP 4.0
The GNU project has released GCC 5.1, which is a major update including a preliminary version of OpenACC and OpenMP 4.0 capability. The source code can be downloaded and built from the mirror sites or the SVN server. Don't expect much in terms of OpenACC performance as the execution model currently only allows for one gang, one worker, and a number of vectors. OpenMP 4 looks … [Read more...]
OpenPower and CUDA-Accelerated Java as a Path Into the Enterprise
TechEnablement spoke with NVIDIA's John Ashley about the role of CUDA-accelerated Java in the enterprise and the approaches people are taking to accelerate Java with GPUs. Mixing CUDA and Java is an atypical approach because Java's intent is to abstract the software away from the hardware so it can run anywhere. In contrast, CUDA is specifically designed to provide hardware … [Read more...]
Win $50k in Deep-learning Diabetic Retinopathy Detection Competition
Kaggle.com is listing a deep-learning competition sponsored by the California Healthcare Foundation to achieve the best accuracy identifying diabetic retinopathy (DR) from retinal images provided by EyePACS, a free platform for retinopathy screening. The goal of this competition is to push an automated detection system to the limit of what is possible – ideally resulting in … [Read more...]
Intel RealSense – First Impressions, Market View, and Path to Market
TechEnablement recently spoke with David Wiltz, product manager of Intel Software and Services Group, about the early release RealSense 3D camera and SDK that we tested. Intel is currently providing early access to the RealSense developer kit that contains a 3D camera and associated SDK for software development. Devices with integrated Intel® RealSense™ 3D Cameras are shipping … [Read more...]