Just in time for ISC 2014! My latest Scientific Computing article, "Assessing ROI in the Cloud For HPC and Enterprise" that addresses the complicated decision, "to purchase infrastructure or run remotely in the cloud?" … [Read more...]
ARM64 with CUDA Early Access Boards Now Available
The X-Gene™ ARM64 and CUDA Development Platform for High Performance Computing (HPC) is now available to order from Cirrascale, the US Applied Micro (APM) integration partner. This board represents an entry point for ARM64 + CUDA into the enterprise markets as well. The X-Gene™ board features custom high-performance ARM v8 processor based on an advanced 64-bit ARM … [Read more...]
Women Who Code – Google’s $50M Program Kicks Off
Just weeks after releasing its first diversity report, Google is backing a new effort with $50M to bring more women into computer science. The new program is called Made with Code, which includes a mix of coding projects, partnerships with youth organizations to get more females involved in creating and writing computer software. This is just the latest effort by … [Read more...]
Intel Announces Xeon CPU + FPGA in a Chip
With ARM64 a given, Intel has been looking to increase market penetration through chip customization. June 8th Intel revealed plans to manufacture a new (as yet unnamed) server Xeon chip that contains an integrated FPGA. The FPGA and CPU will have coherent access to memory. The combination chip will be package compatible with the existing Xeon E5 line. Intel mentions that … [Read more...]
Intel Knights Landing Webinar June 24
Microway is hosting a webinar, "The Faster Path to Discovery: New Details on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Product Family" that will cover the next-generation Knights Landing processor on June 24. Register here to attend. … [Read more...]
Combine C-Sharp With CUDA and OpenCL On Linux, iOS, Android and Windows
Google Protobufs (via protobuf-net) in combination with the click-together framework taught in my CUDA and OpenCL tutorials allows C# and .NET programmers to include Linux and Windows GPU and Intel Xeon Phi codes in their workflows. Mono The freely available opensource mono-project creates C# executables that can run unchanged on both Linux and Windows - just copy the … [Read more...]
Netflix Provides 4K Content – Good News for Low-Power, High-Flop GPU Designs
Netflix is now streaming the hugely popular Breaking Bad series in 4K Ultra HD resolution. The adoption of 4K content coupled with heavy demand for retina quality displays and long battery life in laptops, tablets and cellphones means that GPU technology companies such as AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Intel have a strong incentive … [Read more...]
NVIDIA App Showcase, See What Performance is Possible
Considering utilizing GPUs in your application? The NVIDIA Application Showcase is a great place to examine a broad spectrum of applications that have been GPU accelerated and the speedups that have been achieved. The recently updated list now contains descriptions, links, and performance reports for over 270 GPU accelerated applications. … [Read more...]
LibreOffice OpenCL Acceleration for the Masses – Intel vs. AMD GPU performance
OpenCL support has been added to LibreOffice Calc to greatly accelerate spreadsheet calculations! Now application users can experience GPU acceleration without programming. LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation. It contains popular office applications such as Writer (a word processor), Calc (for spreadsheets), Impress (for … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Tegra K1 Powered Shield Should Soon Be Available
A revised "P2750" NVIDIA Shield gaming device has now appeared in an FCC filing. This suggests that suggests we will soon start seeing a number of NVIDIA Tegra K1 powered devices on store shelves.TechEnablement.com reported some early specifications and benchmark results for a K1-powered Shield that should perform well and can run android or be rooted to … [Read more...]