The Nexus 9 will be built by HTC and powered by an NVIDIA K1. Full specifications are shown here. The Nexus 9 will replace replace the Asus–made Nexus 7,. Apparently, the Nexus 9 was used as an example in the NVIDIA court documents. Expect the Nexus 9 to be announced on October 9 at the HTC Double-Exposure event. Rumor indicates the Nexus 9 will have a waterproof, “tube-shaped” … [Read more...]
Register by Nov 14, 2014 for the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition
The 4th HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Competition, to be featured at ISC 2015 in Frankfurt Germany. The competition is fierce but rewarding! Work to unseat the reigning team from South Africa that has won the competition two years in a row. This is also an excellent opportunity for students to showcase their talents to the more than 2,600 attendees and 160 exhibitors from around … [Read more...]
Guide to Unlock the NVIDIA Shield Tablet Bootloader – First Step to a Dual-boot Device
Many people wish to run Ubuntu, or Ubuntu touch on the recently released NVIDIA Shield Tablet. The first step is to unlock the bootloader, which can be performed according to the instructions by Abdur Rehman in his post, "How To Unlock/Relock Bootloader on NVIDIA Shield Tablet [Guide]". Note that unlocking the bootloader does void the warranty - even if you relock it! Ubuntu … [Read more...]
Altera OpenCL Programmable FPGA Talks QPI, HMC, and 100G Optical Interconnect
At IDF14, Altera demonstrated some useful technology for FPGA and OpenCL FPGA developers including: (1) A Stratix® V FPGA driving a 100G optical link, (2) Micron Hybrid-Memory Cube interoperability, (3) OpenCL applications, and a biggie (4) QPI linking to an Intel Xeon Processor. This looks like an interesting platform for real-time OpenCL/FPGA development. The latter … [Read more...]
Mono 3.8.0 Available – Offers Improved Performance and Portaibility
Mono 3.8.0 is now available and provides better performance and availability on more Linux variants. In addition, the Window 64 port is complete (although it must currently be built from source on Windows). Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework that makes cross-platform development possible using C#, F# and other .NET languages. Binaries can run … [Read more...]
Try Intel’s OpenCL 2.0 SDK With SPIR
The Intel OpenCL 2.0 SDK is available for download. Look to . Commercial OpenCL developers note that this release includes SPIR (Standard Portable Intermediate Representation) to protect your codes while preserving portability. This version supports Android and the re-architected Intel Gen8 "Broadwell" GPUs with powerful features like coherent shared virtual memory for … [Read more...]
Intel Broadwell Compute Gen8 GPU Architecture
Attention OpenCL programmers! Intel has released a detailed description of the Gen8 Broadwell GPU compute architecture, "The Compute Architecture of Intel® Processor Graphics Gen8". Broadwell is a 14nm die shrink of Intel’s microarchitecture incorporating significant reworking of the Intel HD 5000-series (Iris) Gen 7.5 GPU found in Haswell including: (1) throughput for 32-bit … [Read more...]
TechEnablement Grows and Moves to SSD to Speed Content Delivery
TechEnablement is growing! We are happy to announce that we moved to SSD storage to help speed our site given our rapidly growing readership around the world. Our next step will be to enable a global content delivery network. Thank you for helping us grow so quickly! … [Read more...]
GCC 5.0 Provides Full Cilk Plus Support
GNU has announced that GCC 5.0 will provide full support for Cilk Plus. Cilk Plus is an extension to the C and C++ languages to support data and task parallelism on multi-core, vector and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.It is reputed to be quite efficient and looks to be easy to use. The Intel icc compiler has supported Cilk Plus for years. GNU support now makes Cilk Plus available … [Read more...]
Houston Workshop: Directives and Tools for Accelerators: A Seismic Programming Shift
With space for 70-80 participants, those who wish to attend the FREE University of Houston workshop, "Directives and Tools for Accelerators: A Seismic Programming Shift" must register by October 10th, 2014. The workshop is a fill-day event on October 20th, 2014, with a preceding welcome reception on October 19th, 2014. THis workshop is organized by the HPC Tools group in the … [Read more...]