FPGAs, GPUs, and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors can all offer superb performance at low watt/flop and high flop/dollar ratios for real-time computing. To promote real-time FPGA development, several Altera Engineers (Chee Nouk Phoon,Chei Siang Ng, Steve Jahnke, plus Findlay Shearer, Linux Marketing Manager) examined the impact of operating system jitter on real-time performance in … [Read more...]
IPMACC – An Open Source OpenACC to CUDA/OpenCL Translator
IPMACC is a research-grade open-source framework for translating OpenACC source code to CUDA or OpenCL. Binary executables can then be created with OpenCL or CUDA compilers. The authors (Ahmad Lashgar - University of Victoria, Alireza Majidi - Texas A&M University, Amirali Baniasadi - University of Victoria) verified correctness and performance using benchmarks from … [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...]
Late-Breaking NVIDIA Call For GTC 2015 Posters Opens
NVIDIA has opened a call for late-breaking posters for GTC 2015. This call is specifically designed to let bring the results hot-off-the-press results to GTC. Submissions can be made here. The call closes Monday January 12, 2015. Poster Criteria The purpose of your poster is to convey to a wide audience a research project's significance to scholars in the field and its … [Read more...]
MultiOS Gaming, Media, and OpenCL Using XenGT Virtual Machines On Shared Intel GPUs
At last, a full (opensource!) GPU virtualization solution that allows virtualized guest operating systems to "own" a shared Intel GPU yet allows applications to run with near-native performance! This means games, both DRM and free media, plus OpenCL applications can run in separate guest operating systems on a single Intel GPU system (convenient for users) or in a shared cloud … [Read more...]
Portable Performance with OpenCL On Intel Xeon Phi
This High Performance Parallelism Pearl show the potential for using the OpenCL™ standard parallel programming language to deliver portable performance on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, Xeon processors, and many-core devices such as GPUs from multiple vendors. This portable performance can be delivered from a single program without needing multiple versions of the code, an … [Read more...]
Free Online OpenCL FPGA Development Courses By Altera
Altera has released a new training course to teach OpenCL programmers how to develop code for FPGAs, "Building Custom Platforms for Altera SDK for OpenCL". This online training will go over all of the necessary steps to create a custom platform compatible with the Altera SDK for OpenCL. Altera recommends completing the following courses: Introduction to Parallel … [Read more...]
OpenCL Included! Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience
Intel just released INDE. the Intel® Integrated Native Developer Experience cross-platform development suite that is claimed to provide a complete, consistent set of C++ and Java tools, libraries, and samples for environment setup, code creation, compilation, debugging, and analysis on Intel® architecture-based devices and select capabilities on ARM-based Android devices. The … [Read more...]
The Unabridged Chapter 1 Introduction To High Performance Parallelism Pearls
Following is the full, unabridged text of the chapter 1 introduction (written by James Reinders) to High Performance Parallelism Pearls. Thanks to Morgan Kaufmann, James Reinders, and Jim Jeffers for giving permission so TechEnablment can make this available. After reading what James wrote, you will see that summarizing the introduction would simply have left out too much … [Read more...]
MSI WS60 Mobile Workstation – Awesome CUDA-Capable, Linux, and Window Mobility
The recently released MSI mobile workstation (WS60 20 OJ 3K-004US) provides a no-compromise laptop for those who wish a thin-and-light desktop replacement at work and when traveling. This device is now my work machine of choice (that relegated a wonderful HP Z800 workstation to a remotely accessed resource). I have found that the WS60 provides a well-designed and … [Read more...]