The deep-learning teaching code described in my book, "CUDA Application Design and Development" [Chapters 2, 3, and 9] plus online tutorials achieved 13 PF/s average sustained performance using 16,384 GPUs on the Oakridge Titan supercomputer. Full source code for my teaching code can be found on github in the farbopt directory. Nicole Hemsoth at HPCwire noted these CUDA … [Read more...]
OpenCL 2.0 Conformance Test Suite
The adage with OpenCL is "write once - test everywhere" is being addressed by the Khronos organization through the release of the OpenCL 2.0 test suite. The Khronos™ Group today announced the availability of the official conformance test suite for the OpenCL 2.0 specification, making it possible for implementers to certify that their implementations are officially conformant … [Read more...]
WebCL 1.0 specification released
We all know that browser accelerated 3D graphics are coming and that this technology solution - however instantiated - is going to be a tremendous money maker. WebCL is a technology to watch for browser accelerated 3D graphics. The release of the webCL 1.0 specification is the latest evolution in the Khrnos effort to bring 3D browser acceleration to the Internet. WebCL 1.0 … [Read more...]
TACC Intel Xeon Phi Training April 22 2014
Where: Texas Advanced Computing Center, J.J. Pickle Research Campus, ROC Building 196, 10100 Burnet Road Austin, TX 78758 When: Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM This one-day training will provide software developers the foundation needed for modernizing their code to take advantage of parallel architectures found in both the Intel® Xeon® processor and the Intel® … [Read more...]
TechEnablement Adds Study Guides for CUDA, OpenACC, OpenCL, and Intel Xeon Phi
Today techEnablement.com has provided study guides to help students "learn to change the world" with supercomputing for the masses . The study guides cover: CUDA OpenACC OpenCL Intel Xeon Phi … [Read more...]
Intel Releases OpenCL™ 1.2 Support for Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors
The Intel press room announced that OpenCL support is now available (link). The new SDK broadens options for developers on Intel® architecture and includes tools, optimization guides and training. The SDK helps OpenCL developers improve performance and efficiency on Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors and Intel® Xeon® processors For those interested in using OpenCL to program … [Read more...]
Pick the Right WordPress Hosting
Updated July 2, 2016 (thanks to Paul Warren of Insiteful) WordPress is a free and open-source blogging tool and Content Management System (CMS). It was released on May 2003. According to Wikipedia, WordPress now powers more than 26.4% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2016. This represents significant growth as Wikipedia previously noted WordPress was used by 18.9% of … [Read more...]
HPC Balance and Common Sense
Key concepts for any procurement, system design, or system analysis are presented in my 2007 Scientific Computing article ( link ). A common sense approach is to keep what works and improve on what doesn’t. In other words, measure the performance characteristics of your current system(s) and keep those characteristics that support your workloads and improve on any that might … [Read more...]
CUDA 6.0 Released
The CUDA 6 Production Release is now available for download at www.nvidia.com/getcuda. This version of the toolkit includes features that further simplify parallel programming like: • Unified Memory: simplifies programming by enabling applications to access the CPU and GPU memory without the need to manually copy data. • Drop-in Libraries: automatically accelerate … [Read more...]
Farber teaches massively parallel computing to grade 6 – 12 students in Saudi Arabia
My book, “CUDA Application Design and Development” [English][Chinese] and Doctor Dobbs tutorials coupled with the rapid adoption of GPU computing have given me the opportunity to speak and teach around the world. This January, I had the pleasure of traveling to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to speak and teach a short course on OpenACC and CUDA at KAUST (the King Abdullah University of … [Read more...]