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Tutorial on the OpenCL 2.0 Generic Address Space

February 11, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Adam Lake and  Robert Ioffe posted a nice tutorial on the Intel website about the new OpenCL 2.0 generic address space. The OpenCL 2.0 generic address space makes writing OpenCL programs easier by removing the requirement of decorating all pointers with a points to address space. Instead, OpenCL programmers just use pointers as they would in standard C. Utilizing this new … [Read more...]

Intel Posts OpenCL 2.0 QuickSort Tutorial (Compare to TE CUDA Version)

February 5, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Intel Engineer Robert Ioffe has posted an OpenCL QuickSort tutorial that utilizes nested parallelism and Workgroup-scan functions. In particular, the tutorial shows how to use the OpenCL™ 2.0 enqueue_kernel functions that queue kernels from the device without host intervention (Much like dynamic parallelism) plus work_group_scan_exclusive_add  and … [Read more...]

Attend or Submit to the 3rd IWOCL May 12-13, 2015 at Stanford University

January 30, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

The 3rd IWOCL (International Workshop on OpenCL) takes place at Stanford University, California from Tuesday 12 to Wednesday 13 May 2015.  Workshops are held on the Tuesday, followed by the one-day conference on Wednesday.  The conference is accompanied by a poster session and table-top displays by sponsors. OpenCL Papers, Workshops and Posters The IWOCL 2015 call for … [Read more...]

Implications of OS Jitter on Real-Time Applications for FPGAs, GPUs, and Intel

December 31, 2014 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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

December 23, 2014 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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

December 9, 2014 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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

December 2, 2014 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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

December 1, 2014 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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

November 3, 2014 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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

October 27, 2014 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

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...]

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