John Stone (Research Staff, The Beckman Institute) points out that improvements in the AVX-512 instruction set in the Intel Xeon Phi (and latest generation Intel Xeon processors) can deliver significant performance improvements for some time consuming molecular visualization kernels over most existing Intel Xeon CPUs. Based on his recent results using the Intel Xeon Phi … [Read more...]
Face It: AI Gets Personal to Make You Look Better!
Sponsored Content Face it, a mobile AI-based hairstyle app, “is guaranteed to make you look your best” according to its creator Pallab Paul. Paul is an Intel student ambassador who presented his work at the 2017 Intel Developers conference in Denver, Colorado. The app has a very simple interface: all you have to do is provide some simple information about your hair, skin, and … [Read more...]
Intel Software Defined Visualization (SDVis) Appliance Delivers Efficient CPU-Based In Situ Visualization
This is a contributed editorial. All opinions are those of James Reinders. A New CPU-based Appliance Facilitates In Situ Visualization Intel’s software visualization efforts have resulted in exceptional performance using Embree and Intel CPUs over the last few years. Pressing its case on the role of CPUs for exascale data visualization further, Intel is … [Read more...]
NVIDIA GTC’17 announcements make them a complete ‘soup to nuts’ solution for specialized deep-learning applications
Amid a stronger-than-expected quarter (NVDA revenue $1.94B, datacenters sales of $409M), Jensen Huang (CEO/cofounder) Nvidia provided a comprehensive set of announcements during his GTC'17 keynote to position Nvidia for growth in the datacenter, cloud, embedded computing, plus IoT with low power domain level hardware (not a processor). Pre-emptive Intel Skylake comparative … [Read more...]
Oil and Gas Industry Progress Towards Faster, More Power Efficient Reservoir Simulation
Reservoir simulation is the single, most important calculation and Oil and Gas company can do. Attendees at the recent KAUST Global IT summit were told that armed guards are stationed inside the KAUST computer center when the ARAMCO simulation is running because the software is a state secret. The Oil and Gas Industry has been reporting heroic simulation sizes now range from … [Read more...]
SC16 – Chinese Tech Capability Increase Over Last Year Now Matches or Exceeds US HPC Capability
During the press briefing at SC'16, TOP500 luminaries like Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Wu Feng, Martin Weuer, and Erich Strohmaier responded to questioning by the Press. The panel was gracious enough to respond to questions from TechEnablement about the state of the Chinese HPC capability along with observations about the state of the Chinese semiconductor, network, and … [Read more...]
OpenACC Adoption Continues to Gain Momentum in 2016
Multiple Onsite Events at SC16 in Salt Lake City to Showcase Recent Advances BEND, OREGON– NOVEMBER 7, 2016 – The OpenACC standards group today announced several major milestones including the addition of new member, the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, the adoption of OpenACC by several major HPC applications, the addition of support for new target platforms and … [Read more...]
Code Modernization Enables Pikazo’s Economics and Creates Opportunity
Sponsored Content “Pikazo is a tool that let’s anyone become an artist”, began Noah Rosenberg (CEO, Pikazo) when speaking about CPU-based artistic computing. “About grade 3-4 people begin to censor themselves and don’t give themselves permission to call what they draw art”. Pikazo changes that through an innovative blend of machine-learning and behind-the-scenes artistic … [Read more...]
Analysis of Intel share price drop after earnings call
Yesterday Intel held its 10/18 earnings call. Currently the stock is down by over 6%. The TechEnablement Analysis for the stock decrease is twofold: The decrease in enterprise revenue of 3% rather than staying flat impacted INTC as it drew down DCG revenue growth this year to single digits. The executive team downplayed the enterprise revenue decrease by pointing out … [Read more...]
Come learn and meet the experts at the 2016 Intel HPC Developer Conference – Just Before SC16!
Sponsored Content Come learn and meet the experts at the Intel 2016 HPC Developer Conference - just before SC16! Arrive early at Supercomputing 2016 and fuel your insight with focused technical sessions and hands-on labs brought to you by your peers, industry experts, academic/governments institutions and Intel technologists. Plus it’s free! Register now for the 2016 … [Read more...]