Augmented reality is poised to be the new computing display revolution - essentially the gold rush of the early 21st century. The key is the display. Following is information on various displays like Pinlight (110-degrees NVIDIA/UNC), Oculus Rift (110-degrees), Meta Space Glasses, Google Glass (& Navdy), plus the Brother AIRScouter and Lumus. One of the big issues is a … [Read more...]
XSEDE Seeking Partner Institutions to Offer Online Course in Applications of Parallel Computing
XSEDE and the University of California, Berkeley are offering an online course on parallel computing for graduate students and advanced undergraduates and are seeking other university partners that are interested in offering the course for credit to their students. The course includes online video lectures, quizzes, and homework assignments with access to free accounts on the … [Read more...]
Deep-Learning Challenge – Google Chose Nevada Self-Driving Car Test Route and Conditions
With the advent of deep-learning, open and impartial validation of complex learning and adaptive systems is becoming ever more important. For example drones and self-driving cars operate in true life-and-death situations where biases in a validation test can result in collisions with people, property, and other vehicles. In my Scientific Computing article, "Validation: … [Read more...]
Google Nexus 9 Powered by NVIDIA K1
The Nexus 9 will be built by HTC and powered by an NVIDIA K1. Full specifications are shown here. The Nexus 9 will replace replace the Asus–made Nexus 7,. Apparently, the Nexus 9 was used as an example in the NVIDIA court documents. Expect the Nexus 9 to be announced on October 9 at the HTC Double-Exposure event. Rumor indicates the Nexus 9 will have a waterproof, “tube-shaped” … [Read more...]
Register by Nov 14, 2014 for the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition
The 4th HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Competition, to be featured at ISC 2015 in Frankfurt Germany. The competition is fierce but rewarding! Work to unseat the reigning team from South Africa that has won the competition two years in a row. This is also an excellent opportunity for students to showcase their talents to the more than 2,600 attendees and 160 exhibitors from around … [Read more...]
Guide to Unlock the NVIDIA Shield Tablet Bootloader – First Step to a Dual-boot Device
Many people wish to run Ubuntu, or Ubuntu touch on the recently released NVIDIA Shield Tablet. The first step is to unlock the bootloader, which can be performed according to the instructions by Abdur Rehman in his post, "How To Unlock/Relock Bootloader on NVIDIA Shield Tablet [Guide]". Note that unlocking the bootloader does void the warranty - even if you relock it! Ubuntu … [Read more...]
Altera OpenCL Programmable FPGA Talks QPI, HMC, and 100G Optical Interconnect
At IDF14, Altera demonstrated some useful technology for FPGA and OpenCL FPGA developers including: (1) A Stratix® V FPGA driving a 100G optical link, (2) Micron Hybrid-Memory Cube interoperability, (3) OpenCL applications, and a biggie (4) QPI linking to an Intel Xeon Processor. This looks like an interesting platform for real-time OpenCL/FPGA development. The latter … [Read more...]
Mono 3.8.0 Available – Offers Improved Performance and Portaibility
Mono 3.8.0 is now available and provides better performance and availability on more Linux variants. In addition, the Window 64 port is complete (although it must currently be built from source on Windows). Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework that makes cross-platform development possible using C#, F# and other .NET languages. Binaries can run … [Read more...]
Try Intel’s OpenCL 2.0 SDK With SPIR
The Intel OpenCL 2.0 SDK is available for download. Look to . Commercial OpenCL developers note that this release includes SPIR (Standard Portable Intermediate Representation) to protect your codes while preserving portability. This version supports Android and the re-architected Intel Gen8 "Broadwell" GPUs with powerful features like coherent shared virtual memory for … [Read more...]
Intel Broadwell Compute Gen8 GPU Architecture
Attention OpenCL programmers! Intel has released a detailed description of the Gen8 Broadwell GPU compute architecture, "The Compute Architecture of Intel® Processor Graphics Gen8". Broadwell is a 14nm die shrink of Intel’s microarchitecture incorporating significant reworking of the Intel HD 5000-series (Iris) Gen 7.5 GPU found in Haswell including: (1) throughput for 32-bit … [Read more...]