A revised "P2750" NVIDIA Shield gaming device has now appeared in an FCC filing. This suggests that suggests we will soon start seeing a number of NVIDIA Tegra K1 powered devices on store shelves.TechEnablement.com reported some early specifications and benchmark results for a K1-powered Shield that should perform well and can run android or be rooted to … [Read more...]
TACC Intel Xeon Phi – MIC – User Group Meeting July 8-9
TACC is hosting a meeting of the Intel Xeon Phi user group (IXPug) in Austin, TX July 8-9, 2014. IXPug has been created to promote the exchange of user experiences in adopting and using the Phi processors. Registration is free and open until July 1, 2014. Attend IXPug to start or enhance your Xeon (X86) programming skills on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, … [Read more...]
WebCL for Safari
Cross-platform interest in WebCL is expanding with support for Firefox, Chrome as well as Safari. WebCL provides a tremendous opportunity to exploit parallelism on client-side machines. Thanks for to Antonio Gomes (Twitter @tonikitoo) who brought the Safari webkit-webcl implementation to our attention! The SMAST Computational Laboratory (CMLab) at the School for Marine … [Read more...]
Use a Single OpenCL Source Code to Compare FPGA and NVIDIA K1 Power and Performance
For many embedded applications power consumption is king. System On a Chip (SOC) designs such as the ARM-based Altera Cyclone V development board provides a Linux-based environment to program and run parallel applications on an FPGA using OpenCL much like the well-known NVIDIA Jetson development board. What a wonderful opportunity to compare the performance and power … [Read more...]
Microway Announces OpenACC GPU DevKit
Microway announced their new WhisperStation GPU Starter DevKit with OpenACC. The starter kit enables programmers to quickly bring the power of GPU computing with OpenACC. The bundle includes an NVIDIA Tesla K20-equipped WhisperStation and a license for PGI Accelerator C/C++/Fortran Compilers with OpenACC. … [Read more...]
IWOCL 2014 (International Workshop on OpenCL) presentations are now online
IWOCL 2014 presentations are now available online. The International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) is an annual meeting of OpenCL users, researchers, developers and suppliers to share OpenCL best practise, and to promote the evolution and advancement of the OpenCL standard. The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in contributing to, and participating in the OpenCL … [Read more...]
EPFL breaks Internet Security Candidate Discrete Logarithms Encryption in Two Hours
It is challenging even for experts to grasp the computational power now available to students and researchers. EPFL researchers decrypted a candidate for the Internet's future security systems based on "discrete logarithms". Allegedly tamper-proof, it could only stand up to the school machines' decryption attempts for two hours. More information: Robert Granger, Thorsten … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s Women Who CUDA Campaign – May 30, 2014 Deadline!
On May 8, 2014 NVIDIA launched the Women Who CUDA campaign to highlight the work of innovative women in the area of GPU computing. Winning entries in the CUDA Women survey (click here to enter) - that is open until May 30, 2014, will be published on the high-visibility, high-volume NVIDIA website. Tweets during the campaign will provide visibility in the GPU computing community … [Read more...]
May 2014 Current K1 Development Pathways
NVIDIA Tegra K1 Jetson development kits are now available for purchase from Newegg or Microcenter. The NVIDIA Tegra K1 chip has generated much interest due to the CUDA programmability and power efficiency of the ARM/Kepler ceepee-geepee combination. Upcoming Tegra K1 devices include the Xiaomi MiPad, NVIDIA's reference design tablet, plus the K1 powered Shield 2 gaming device. … [Read more...]
Calling All Authors for an Intel Xeon Phi Gems Book – Rough Submissions Due May 29, 2014
All are invited to contribute to High Performance Parallelism Gems – Successful Approaches for Multicore and Many-core Programming (working title) a contribution-based book that will focus on practical techniques for Intel Xeon processor and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor parallel computing. Submissions<http://lotsofcores.com/gems> are due by May 29, 2014 in order to … [Read more...]