The Rob Farber SC14 tutorial “From ‘Hello World’ to Exascale Using x86, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors” (tut106s1) went smoothly and was highly successful. The requests we received from our students at the tutorial to teach this, or a similar class in the US and around the world from the UK to India are a clear measure of our success. In particular, ours is the only class … [Read more...]
Springer and Simula Join Forces to Provide Free eBooks on Computing
The folks at Scientific Computing let us know that Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing has introduced a new open access ebook series on the essentials of computing science that aims to provide introductions to select research in computing. The series presents both a state-of-the-art disciplinary overview and raises essential critical questions in the field. Published by … [Read more...]
Research Job: Imperial College London to Port Python-code to OpenCL
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...]
Free Trial Of IBM Analytics
Sign up for a free beta test the IBM Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service that can provide access to IBM's predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. This software automates tasks such as data preparation, predictive analysis, and visual storytelling for business professionals. Offered as a cloud-based freemium service, all business users can … [Read more...]
Get Your Visualizations Viewed By Millions Via The CADENS Call
Would you like visualizations of your data to be seen by millions of people around the world? Researchers who are interested in collaborating on this project can submit information on their data and/or visualizations at: http://go.illinois.edu/cadens. Initial submissions should be provided by Dec 21, 2014. Qualifying research generates, analyzes, or visualizes data and … [Read more...]
Automatically Caption Images With Neural Networks and Vector Space Math
Imagine a magic algorithm that can create captions that accurately describe an image. The Google authors of, "Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator" claim to have created a machine-learning algorithm that approaches human-accuracy. If true, the value is clear as conventional text-based search methods can include relevant images as well as text. machine-translation … [Read more...]
Outsourcing Media And Entertainment To The Nimbix Cloud
With the outsourcing of animation to the cloud, virtual reality becoming a web service, and hints of HPC becoming cloud-friendly, it is worth looking at how companies are rising to address these markets. One example is the Dallas, Texas company Nimbix that bills itself as, "a pure high performance computing (HPC) cloud" that provides turnkey end user HPC applications in … [Read more...]
Virtual Reality As A Web Service Goes Live
A number of companies are now experimenting with providing virtual reality via the web. The results are exciting and demonstrate the potential in this new technology for a host of applications from cinematic experiences to gaming and urban planning. MozVR by Mozilla is designed to be a “native VR” Web experience, made from the ground up for virtual reality. As one of the … [Read more...]
Late-Breaking NVIDIA Call For GTC 2015 Posters Opens
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
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...]