Intel has labeled the Haswell graphic core as Gen 7.5 and the Ivy Bridge GPU as Gen.7. The latest Gen 7.5 Architecture paper, "The Compute Architecture of Intel® Processor Graphics Gen7.5" has now been released by Intel. This paper is written for those who wish to know the "architecture characteristics relevant to running compute applications on Intel® Processor … [Read more...]
SC14 WACCPD Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives
Call For Papers for the SC14 Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives (WACCPD), which brings together leading researchers and software designers at the forefront of the application of high-level directives to program accelerator-based architectures. Using directives improve productivity, and program portability with minimal changes to the applications while … [Read more...]
University of Houston Call To Participate in Oil and Gas Workshop Oct 20
The University of Houston Center for Advanced Computing & Data Systems is reaching out to Oil and Gas domain scientists/researchers who are keen to hear about alternative high-level programming models used to port seismic codes to use accelerators. High-level models such as OpenACC/OpenMP proposes to be more portable and more vendor neutral, and may be complementary to … [Read more...]
Navdy Provides Portable Heads-Up Display for Android and Iphone
Think of the possibilities! The San Francisco startup Navdy is accepting pre-orders for their device that works with Android and Iphone "Navdy projects a transparent image into the driver's field of view which appears to float outside of the windshield". In other words, it is a portable HUD (Heads-Up Display) projector that works with mobile devices! The current 40% price is … [Read more...]
Wearable Tech May One Day Monitor Disease
A new wearable vapor sensor being developed at the University of Michigan could one day offer continuous disease monitoring for patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, anemia or lung disease. The sensor can detect airborne chemicals either exhaled or released through the skin. The University of Michigan researchers are working with the National Science Foundation's … [Read more...]
Robots that See Through Solid Walls Using Wi-Fi
For the past few years Yasamin Mostofi, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSB and her team have been busy realizing the dream of X-ray vision.by enabling robots to see objects and humans behind thick walls through the use of radio frequency signals. The project page is here. Dr Mostofi received the Presidential Early Career Award in … [Read more...]
DARPA Blue Wolf – program to build fast submarines
DARPA Blue Wolf - program to build fast submarines. Most likely pathway is to team with a big player, but opportunities in technical computation, such as CFD. https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b4af90be2b3d10e2f6b16d3f94f8a9c1&tab=core&_cview=1 DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals supporting the Blue Wolf program. The Blue … [Read more...]
DARPA Innovative Systems for Military Missions – Tactical Technology Office (TTO)
DARPA Innovative Systems for Military Missions - Tactical Technology Office (TTO)". Opportunities in autonomous systems: The TTO strategy seeks the development and demonstration of system level technologies and prototypes which outpace adversary capabilities and force structures. TTO is interested in advanced capabilities in all physical domains: Ground, … [Read more...]
AFRL Human-Centered Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Leveraged Science & Technology (S&T) Program
This call was issued in Feb. It contains some HPC topics, specifically the following items: (2) Human Trust and Interaction – develop technologies to improve human-to-human interactions as well as human-to-machine interactions, and (3) Human Analyst Augmentation – develop technologies to enhance ISR analyst performance and to test the efficacy of newly developed ISR … [Read more...]
DIA Inovation BAA Reannounced
DIA Innovation BAA - This call has been open since 2013, but they've reannounced it and are soliciting whitepapers across a variety of topics that match well to high-performance computing. See http://www.dia.mil/Business/Needipedia.aspx for a list of topics. Some have cutoff already, but some deadlines still … [Read more...]