Oculus has unveiled a much lighter and ergonomic prototype virtual reality headset nicknamed Crescent Bay. This headset is not available to consumers. The hew headset features a higher resolution and refresh rate, 360-degree head tracking and integrated headphones."It's as big of a leap as we made from DK1 to DK2," says Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, referring to the first two … [Read more...]
Sony’s AR SmartEyeglass SDK Available Now – Purchase March 2015
Sony is releasing a Google Glass competitor in March 2014. Start developing augmented reality apps for Android now with the Sony SmartEyeglass SDK (Developer Preview) with emulator that extends the Sony SmartExtension framework by defining a set of Java classes and data structures that enable Android app to interact with and control the SmartEyeglass device. Sample projects … [Read more...]
Free Book From Altera Includes OpenCL on FPGA Section
Altera has just released a free ebook “FPGAs for dummies” simply by registering to get a copy. The OpenCL sections are very high-level, composed mainly of a single block-diagram and a few paragraphs of discussion. Also included is a Black-Scholes Monte Carlo case study that includes lines of code, performance, and performance per watt comparisons against an unspecified CPU and … [Read more...]
AI Researchers Talk Up Benefits of GPUs for Deep Learning
With the ability to deliver TF/s to PF/s of performance even on nonlinear problems, deep-learning researchers who participated in the ImageNet competition are espousing the charms of GPU computing technology. At the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), held last week in Zurich, teams from Adobe, U.C. Berkeley, the National University of Singapore, Oxford University … [Read more...]
GPUdb Filters And Displays Billions Of Tweets In Seconds On Parallel Devices
Twitter is a fantastic news source and provider of billions of noisy, needle-in-the-haystack tweets to confound data-scientists and delight analysts plus commercial marketing efforts. Interactivity with billions of data items is key to developing, understanding, and validating analysis. (Validation is emphasized as Google was recently fingered by IEEE Spectrum for biased … [Read more...]
Latest Intel SDE Emulates New ISA Instructions For Knights Landing
Intel has released a new version of the Intel SDE (Software Development Emulator) so that customers can start working with upcoming instruction set extensions like AVX-512 for Knights Landing. The SDE can be downloaded after accepting a user agreement and used on Windows, Linux, and OS. It can also be used with the GNU gcc. The current version is 7.2 released on July 29, … [Read more...]
FabricEngine Leverages Python and LLVM For Digital Content Creation Everywhere
A company called FabricEngine (http://fabricengine.com) is leveraging the power of LLVM and Python to compile optimized code for Digital Content Creation (DCC) that can run on multicore and GPUs. Products like these demonstrate the acceptance of Python and LLVM into commercial/enterprise high-performance HPC applications just like PyFR and deep-learning. Integrated with … [Read more...]
Compare Augmented Reality Displays from NVIDIA, Oculus Rift, Meta, and Others (updated)
Augmented reality is poised to be the new computing display revolution - essentially the gold rush of the early 21st century. The key is the display. Following is information on various displays like Pinlight (110-degrees NVIDIA/UNC), Oculus Rift (110-degrees), Meta Space Glasses, Google Glass (& Navdy), plus the Brother AIRScouter and Lumus. One of the big issues is a … [Read more...]
XSEDE Seeking Partner Institutions to Offer Online Course in Applications of Parallel Computing
XSEDE and the University of California, Berkeley are offering an online course on parallel computing for graduate students and advanced undergraduates and are seeking other university partners that are interested in offering the course for credit to their students. The course includes online video lectures, quizzes, and homework assignments with access to free accounts on the … [Read more...]
Deep-Learning Challenge – Google Chose Nevada Self-Driving Car Test Route and Conditions
With the advent of deep-learning, open and impartial validation of complex learning and adaptive systems is becoming ever more important. For example drones and self-driving cars operate in true life-and-death situations where biases in a validation test can result in collisions with people, property, and other vehicles. In my Scientific Computing article, "Validation: … [Read more...]