The OpenMP 4.0 specification is moving quickly to implementation through the GNU toolchain and Clang. TechEnablement reported that GNU 4.9.1 now supports OpenMP in C/C++ and Fortran plus we now have confirmation that OpenMP will run on ARM64 as well, or as Jakub Jelinek wrote, "All architectures where libgomp is supported (which is essentially all which have pthreads)." The … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Shield 2 will be a tablet (with stylus) as well as a gaming device!
It's looks like it is true (and it can now be ordered), the K1-powered Shield 2 Gaming console will also be an 8" tablet! What a cool idea! This will be a CUDA/Gamers/Tablet/(cellphone?) honey of a device. (July 22: It's available now!). NVIDIA has created a tweet-based game "Ultimate Quest" in what is believed to be a promotion for the Shield 2. Click on the image below … [Read more...]
Extreme Test – NVIDIA Shield Portals Two 9-year Old Boys Through 20-hour Road Trip
The Tegra 4 NVIDIA Shield is a powerful, portable handheld gaming console that can play demanding first-person video games like Valve's Portal with long battery life. A recent extreme, real-world test with two active nine-year old boys on a cumulative twenty-hour round-trip-road trip demonstrated in-car happiness by all occupants. The combination of an Xbox like controller … [Read more...]
Farber to Teach All-Day Tutorial At Supercomputing Nov 16 2014
Supercomputing 2014 recently approved my proposal for an all-day class "From 'Hello World' to Exascale Using x86, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors" (tut106s1), at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC14). I hope to see you on Sunday November 16, 2014 in New Orleans,! Abstract Both GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi … [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...]
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 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...]
WebCL for Safari
Cross-platform interest in WebCL is expanding with support for Firefox, Chrome as well as Safari. WebCL provides a tremendous opportunity to exploit parallelism on client-side machines. Thanks for to Antonio Gomes (Twitter @tonikitoo) who brought the Safari webkit-webcl implementation to our attention! The SMAST Computational Laboratory (CMLab) at the School for Marine … [Read more...]
Use a Single OpenCL Source Code to Compare FPGA and NVIDIA K1 Power and Performance
For many embedded applications power consumption is king. System On a Chip (SOC) designs such as the ARM-based Altera Cyclone V development board provides a Linux-based environment to program and run parallel applications on an FPGA using OpenCL much like the well-known NVIDIA Jetson development board. What a wonderful opportunity to compare the performance and power … [Read more...]