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...]
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...]
Women Who Code – Google’s $50M Program Kicks Off
Just weeks after releasing its first diversity report, Google is backing a new effort with $50M to bring more women into computer science. The new program is called Made with Code, which includes a mix of coding projects, partnerships with youth organizations to get more females involved in creating and writing computer software. This is just the latest effort by … [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...]
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...]
Try Quantum Computing in Your WebGL-enabled Browser
GPUs are wonderful for running energy minimization algorithms where a system relaxes to a low energy state to solve a problem. The 13 PF/s Titan Deep-learning teaching code is a compelling example of this ability. Similarly, Quantum Computing solves a problem (like RSA encryption) by having a quantum system relax to a low energy state. Google has created a WebGL Chrome … [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...]
Proof-of-Concept WebCL Chrome Browser Available from AMD
AMD has been working on implementing WebCL inside a Chrome browser to enable web programmer's access to OpenCL acceleration plus WebCL and WebGL interoperability. (Firefox, Chrome and Safari all have some form of WebCL support.) The following video shows the potential: http://youtu.be/dGD9NpipcrE Hands on experience can be found through the Chromium-WebCL github project, … [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...]
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...]