Since the days when the 8080 was the desirable CPU, Dr. Dobbs has been publishing materials for programmers. That era ends with the close of 2014 as no new content will be added to the Dr. Dobbs website. Existing content will still be available, but in the fast moving world of technology it will soon become dated and left behind. Happily, the final Editor-In-Chief confirmed the … [Read more...]
Develop Apps for Windows, Android, ARM, and x86 with INDE
Try Intel's INDE (Intel® Integrated Native Developer Experience) for free or with a 30-day license to explore how to develop applications for Android and Microsoft Operating Systems running on ARM and x86. The full-blown version costs $700 with a $299 yearly support renewal contract. INDE features: Cross-OS, Cross-Architecture, Cross-IDE: C++/Java* tools and libraries … [Read more...]
Free eBook – Optimizing HPC Applications with Intel Cluster Tools
Amazon is offering a free Kindle edition of the book, “Optimizing HPC Applications with Intel Cluster Tools" by Alexander Supalov, Andrey Semin, Michael Klemm, and Christopher Dahnken. Table of Contents Foreword by Bronis de Supinski, CTO, Livermore Computing, LLNL Introduction Chapter 1: No Time to Read this Book? Chapter 2: Overview of Platform … [Read more...]
Intel Xeon Phi Used in Australia’s DUG Oil and Gas Supercomputer
Equivalent to the 8th largest system in the world, Perth Australia's DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) has purchased a large Intel Xeon Phi equipped supercomputer from SGI for Oil and Gas applications. This system augments TF/s capable workstations also equipped with Intel Xeon Phi devices. DownUnder notes that all their software has been rewritten to use coprocessors with 6x - 10x … [Read more...]
Successful Farber SC14 Tutorial “From ‘Hello World’ to ExaScale Computing Using x86, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors”
The Rob Farber SC14 tutorial “From ‘Hello World’ to Exascale Using x86, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors” (tut106s1) went smoothly and was highly successful. The requests we received from our students at the tutorial to teach this, or a similar class in the US and around the world from the UK to India are a clear measure of our success. In particular, ours is the only class … [Read more...]
Springer and Simula Join Forces to Provide Free eBooks on Computing
The folks at Scientific Computing let us know that Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing has introduced a new open access ebook series on the essentials of computing science that aims to provide introductions to select research in computing. The series presents both a state-of-the-art disciplinary overview and raises essential critical questions in the field. Published by … [Read more...]
Research Job: Imperial College London to Port Python-code to OpenCL
Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. The role will involve developing PyFR (www.pyfr.org), an opensource next-generation fluid flow solver that is designed to target various hardware platforms - including clusters of multi-core CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors, and AMD GPUs - all … [Read more...]
Free Trial Of IBM Analytics
Sign up for a free beta test the IBM Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service that can provide access to IBM's predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. This software automates tasks such as data preparation, predictive analysis, and visual storytelling for business professionals. Offered as a cloud-based freemium service, all business users can … [Read more...]
Get Your Visualizations Viewed By Millions Via The CADENS Call
Would you like visualizations of your data to be seen by millions of people around the world? Researchers who are interested in collaborating on this project can submit information on their data and/or visualizations at: http://go.illinois.edu/cadens. Initial submissions should be provided by Dec 21, 2014. Qualifying research generates, analyzes, or visualizes data and … [Read more...]
Outsourcing Media And Entertainment To The Nimbix Cloud
With the outsourcing of animation to the cloud, virtual reality becoming a web service, and hints of HPC becoming cloud-friendly, it is worth looking at how companies are rising to address these markets. One example is the Dallas, Texas company Nimbix that bills itself as, "a pure high performance computing (HPC) cloud" that provides turnkey end user HPC applications in … [Read more...]