In his 2015 CES Keynote, Intel CEO announced Brian Krzanich announced a $300 million investment in training and recruiting female and other groups of under-represented computer scientists. The goal is to achieve “full representation” of women and minorities by 2020 at Intel and within the Intel supplier pipelines. The Intel announcement follows other diversity initiatives that … [Read more...]
CUDA 7 For Registered Developers – LAPACK Dense Solvers 3-6x faster than MKL
The CUDA Toolkit 7.0 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to members of NVIDIA’s free registered developer program. Especially interesting is the claim of 3-6x faster LAPACK dense solvers over MKL (The Intel Math Kernel Library). C++11 support makes it easier for C++ developers to accelerate their applications Write less code with ‘auto’ and ‘lambda’, especially when … [Read more...]
Facebook HHVM Saves Wikipedia 30% Page Load Time and 50% CPU load over Zend
The Wikipedia blog, "How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast" by Ori Livneh discusses the tremendous impact of switching to the open-source Facebook Hip Hip Virtual Machine (HHVM) for PHP. The HHVM code essentially converts interpreted PHP code to x86 instructions that can run natively on the CPU. This translates to much higher performance by avoiding PHP's usual … [Read more...]
FieldView Data Center Infrastructure Management Reduces Energy Costs Around the World
Making informed decisions about data center operating costs requires the sharing of accurate, real-time data with those decision makers who are vested with maximizing profitability in both cloud and enterprise environments. The FieldView Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution is designed to help customers make effective use of their assets, space and especially … [Read more...]
Xsede Feb. 6 OpenACC Workshop Telecast to Various Locations
XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois will be presenting an OpenACC GPU programming workshop on February 6, 2015. OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has been … [Read more...]
PathScale EKO 5 Compiler Adds Support for ARM and C++11
PathScale - a well-known provider of one of the industry's highest-performance 64-bit C, C++, and Fortran compilers - has added support for ARM and C++11 in their EKOPath 5 compiler suite. “We are pleased to provide the ARM HPC ecosystem with our new EKOPath compiler,” said Christopher Bergstrom, the PathScale Chief Technology Officer. “Our C/Fortran compiler and BLAS … [Read more...]
Seven10 Storage Software Intelligently Manages Seamless Data Migration to the Cloud
TechEnablement caught up with Seven10 Storage Software's CTO Chris Magyar to speak about their enterprise software that claims to "make data migrations painless and cloud access effortless". Enterprise computing is moving to both private and public clouds to realize the benefits of "data everywhere". Seven10 Storage software makes this possible by providing a unified … [Read more...]
Intel Moving Big Into Tiny Wearables – Save Lives, Reduce Insurance Rates
The 2015 CES keynote by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has been receiving high praise. Spanning a wealth of product innovation, Krzanich discussed towards the end of his keynote the Intel® Curie™ module for wearable devices that has the potential to save lives and even reduce health and auto insurance rates. Specifically, the Intel Curie module is a complete low-power solution … [Read more...]
FAA and Industry Partners Launch Drone Safety Campaign for the Masses
Alarmed by increasing encounters between small drones and manned aircraft, drone industry officials said they are teaming up with the government and model aircraft hobbyists to launch a safety campaign. The FAA has been receiving about 25 reports per month this year of drones sighted flying near manned aircraft or airports, up from just a handful of reports two years ago. … [Read more...]
SenseHUD $99 Heads Up Display for Cars – Pre-Order Price
For a limited time, SenseHUD is breaking the $100 in-car HUD (Heads-up Display) barrier! Offering an on-screen HUD and speakerphone, SenseHUD helps keep the drivers eye's on the road rather than messing around with a smartphone! Note the software is extra and the $100 price is a limited time pre-order price. Competitor Navdy offers a $299 (pre-order price) for an … [Read more...]