The ArrayFire GPU accelerated library software has made news by announcing they are moving to open source. Right now only the wrappers and examples that will bring more customers are currently open source. A business-savvy first move. Specifically, the ArrayFire website states, " ... it’s neither simple nor straightforward to take a closed software Open Source. Earlier … [Read more...]
Tegra K1 Drives Audi A7 In Florida Driverless Car Highway Test
Audi tested a fully equipped driverless A7 on a Florida highway at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. Governor Rick Scott, a proponent of driverless vehicles and signer of the bill that allows for testing such vehicles in the state, sat in the driver's seat without touching the controls for part of the test. Audi requested a shutdown of Tampa's Lee Roy Selmon … [Read more...]
Dongarra and Team Start New Supercomputing Journal
Jack Dongarra and his colleague Vladimir Voevodin have started a new peer-reviewed publication called “Journal Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations” (JSFI). The Editorial Director is Leonid Sokolinsky at the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Following is the foreword: Parallel scientific computing has entered a new era. Multicore processors on … [Read more...]
AMD Introduces an ARM64 Development Kit $2999
AMD is now accepting applications for the AMD Opteron™ A1100 Series 64-bit ARM Developers kit, which supports the RedHat ARM Partner Early Access Program for software and hardware developers as well as early adopters in large datacenters. The development kit provides the hardware and software needed to begin application development and evaluate the A1100 Series processors. … [Read more...]
Making a Difference – TACC Ranger Rides in Africa
The TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) Ranger supercomputer, which as the first NSF "Path to Petascale" system makes global journey to Africa. The student HPC team from the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, South Africa recently won their second competition at ISC14 so we believe Ranger is in good hands and will continue to deliver quality … [Read more...]
A Simple Way to Add Aspect-Preserving Responsive Design HTML5 Animations Using WebGL
Learn how to include really fast WebGL accelerated interactive 3D content in your posts - including responsive design WordPress sites like TechEnablement! This first in a series of Web-Dev tutorials teaches how to add an interactive 3D text animation to via a simple embedded iframe HTML statement. The CSS is included in the HTML so no site css modifications required! The … [Read more...]
Start Developing on the ARM-Powered NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Now!
NVIDIA posted a development kit for the NVIDIA Shield Tablet including a banquet of languages (CUDA, Java, C/C++, ...) and developer tools. A complete list of features can be found at Tegra Android Development Pack and are available for download under the NVIDIA GameWorks Download Center. Develop on the latest and fastest mobile hardware available with the all-new NVIDIA® … [Read more...]
Argonne Extreme Training for Exascale Starts Aug 4th Covering OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, and Vectorization
The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing starts next week. Paul Messina believes more institutions - including universities - need to offer such advanced training. The complexities of exascale computing are the reason as programming the current generation of leadership class machines requires knowledge of a broad spectrum of topics and many skills: both … [Read more...]
SC14 Technical Program and Registration – XSEDE/TACC Resources for Farber Tutorial
Register early for Supercomputing 2014 in New Orleans and save up to $275. View the Technical Program online (and register for our tutorial!) The Technical Program fee includes admission to all conference sessions, exhibits, the Monday night Exhibits opening event, Thursday night event, and one copy of the SC14 proceedings. Click here to view the grid showing access to … [Read more...]
Intel Webinar About “Omni Scale” Next-Generation High-Performance Fabric and Future Directions
Register to attend the August 5th webinar by Joe Yaworski from the Intel Technical Computing Group titled, "High Performance Fabrics from Intel - Today and Tomorrow". Intel's thinking about network infrastructure will have a decided impact on the future of HPC given their recent wins on the NNSA (National Nuclear Safety Agency) 42 PF/s Trinity supercomputer plus the NERSC … [Read more...]