Timely for Siggraph 2014 (because animations use meshes) and food-for-thought for CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) research, the paper by A. Gorobets, F.X. Trias, R. Borrell, G. Oyarzún and A. Oliva, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows with Parallel Algorithms for Various Computing Architectures" considers structured and unstructured meshes for incompressible … [Read more...]
Hot At Siggraph 2014 – Multithreading for Visual Effects
The ACM Siggraph conference starts tomorrow, August 10th, in Vancouver, BC. Multithreading for visual effects coupled with massive parallelism has changed the visual effects industry forever. A new book capturing that trend titled, appropriately enough, "Multithreading for Visual Effects", is an excellent source of information about how visual effects are currently performed at … [Read more...]
Intel Paper Detailing the Gen 7.5 GPU Architecture – Attention OpenCL Programmers !
Intel has labeled the Haswell graphic core as Gen 7.5 and the Ivy Bridge GPU as Gen.7. The latest Gen 7.5 Architecture paper, "The Compute Architecture of Intel® Processor Graphics Gen7.5" has now been released by Intel. This paper is written for those who wish to know the "architecture characteristics relevant to running compute applications on Intel® Processor … [Read more...]
AMD Firepro S9150 5 TF/s Single, 2.5 TF/s Double-Precision GPU and OpenCL 1.2 Support
AMD just announced the Firepro S9150 GPU, the first to break 2.0 TF/s double-precision performance. No word yet on pricing or availability. Specifications: Cooling/Power/Form Factor Max Power: 235W Bus Interface: PCIe® x16 Slots: Two Form Factor: Full height/ Full length Cooling: Passive heat sink Memory Size/Type: 16GB GDDR5 Interface: … [Read more...]
42 PF/s Trinity Supercomputer to Use Intel Knights Landing
First details on the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Trinity Supercomputer show that the 42 PF/s system costing $174M USD will run a combination of Intel Haswell and Knights Landing processors. In particular the Intel Xeon Phi devices will use Micron’s Hybrid Memory Cube technology, which will greatly help memory bandwidth and memory capacity limited … [Read more...]
Pre-order Your NVIDIA Shield Tablet Now! (available July 29 in US)
The Tegra K1-powered NVIDIA Shield Tablet is here - available July 29 in the US! Pre-order here! For more information on the shield tablet, or go to shield.nvidia.com. http://youtu.be/VohrddwVQqg Those who are adventurous, Caonical has a dual-boot mode that will allow Ubuntu to run on tablets, and potentially other devices bringing full Linux and CUDA … [Read more...]
TechEnablement Adds Funding Opportunity Posts via Dr. William Reynolds
TechEnablement is pleased to announce that Dr. William Reynolds PhD - an expert in applied scientific computing, funding proposals, and government research, - will be identifying pending funding opportunities for our readership. These posts will round out the TechEnablement content pool to (1) educate readers about the current technology, (2) plan both applications and … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Shield 2 will be a tablet (with stylus) as well as a gaming device!
It's looks like it is true (and it can now be ordered), the K1-powered Shield 2 Gaming console will also be an 8" tablet! What a cool idea! This will be a CUDA/Gamers/Tablet/(cellphone?) honey of a device. (July 22: It's available now!). NVIDIA has created a tweet-based game "Ultimate Quest" in what is believed to be a promotion for the Shield 2. Click on the image below … [Read more...]
ARM64 with CUDA Early Access Boards Now Available
The X-Gene™ ARM64 and CUDA Development Platform for High Performance Computing (HPC) is now available to order from Cirrascale, the US Applied Micro (APM) integration partner. This board represents an entry point for ARM64 + CUDA into the enterprise markets as well. The X-Gene™ board features custom high-performance ARM v8 processor based on an advanced 64-bit ARM … [Read more...]
Intel Announces Xeon CPU + FPGA in a Chip
With ARM64 a given, Intel has been looking to increase market penetration through chip customization. June 8th Intel revealed plans to manufacture a new (as yet unnamed) server Xeon chip that contains an integrated FPGA. The FPGA and CPU will have coherent access to memory. The combination chip will be package compatible with the existing Xeon E5 line. Intel mentions that … [Read more...]