Google Protobufs (via protobuf-net) in combination with the click-together framework taught in my CUDA and OpenCL tutorials allows C# and .NET programmers to include Linux and Windows GPU and Intel Xeon Phi codes in their workflows. Mono The freely available opensource mono-project creates C# executables that can run unchanged on both Linux and Windows - just copy the … [Read more...]
LibreOffice OpenCL Acceleration for the Masses – Intel vs. AMD GPU performance
OpenCL support has been added to LibreOffice Calc to greatly accelerate spreadsheet calculations! Now application users can experience GPU acceleration without programming. LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation. It contains popular office applications such as Writer (a word processor), Calc (for spreadsheets), Impress (for … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Tegra K1 Powered Shield Should Soon Be Available
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
MultiOS Gaming CUDA & OpenCL Via a Virtual Machine
Update 12/1/14: Intel now offers through the Xen project full GPU virtualization for Intel 4th generation devices. Operating system virtualization is a convenient way to run multiple operating systems at the same time, on the same hardware, without requiring rebooting. There are several technologies that allow sharing of the GPU by both the host (native) and guest … [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...]
Firefox WebCL plugin, WebCL Security, and Compliance Tests
Interest in WebCL is expanding as exemplified by the Nokia WebCL project that has released a Firefox plugin to run WebCL apps. Developers now have a choice of running WebCL in Chrome via AMD and Firefox with the Nokia plugin. (Firefox, Chrome and Safari all have some form of WebCL support.) The continued expansion of WebCL proof-of-concept … [Read more...]