Joe Curley (Director of Marketing in the Technical Computing Group at Intel Corporation) just completed his webinar on BrightTalk, "The Faster Path to Discovery: New Details on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Product Family" that disclosed new details on the upcoming Knights Landing massively=parallel chip including a claimed 4x performance improvement over the NVIDIA K40 on some … [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...]
TACC Intel Xeon Phi – MIC – User Group Meeting July 8-9
TACC is hosting a meeting of the Intel Xeon Phi user group (IXPug) in Austin, TX July 8-9, 2014. IXPug has been created to promote the exchange of user experiences in adopting and using the Phi processors. Registration is free and open until July 1, 2014. Attend IXPug to start or enhance your Xeon (X86) programming skills on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, … [Read more...]
OpenCL Haswell Iris 5200 Performance Results – 800 GF/s Peak Performance
The Intel Haswell chip contains an integrated GPU that delivers significantly better OpenCL performance than an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - exceeding 800 GF/s peak performance. Allan MacKinnon at PixelIO has been investigating the OpenCL performance of this device and has been finding a plethora of on-gpu registers but also that the GPU appears to be both power and thermally … [Read more...]
NERSC to Procure “Cori” a Knights Landing Based Cray XC Supercomputer
Scheduled for delivery in mid-2016, NERSC's next-generation supercomputer, a Cray XC, will be named after Gerty Cori, the first American woman to be honored with a Nobel Prize in science. The Cory supercomputer will use Intel’s next-generation Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor –- code-named “Knights Landing” -- a self-hosted, manycore processor with on-package high bandwidth memory … [Read more...]
Intel Mobile Reports $929M 1Q14 loss and $3.15B 2013 loss
Mobile is big money unless you are playing catch up. Sean Hollister at The Verge relays a report that the Intel Mobile division lost $3.15 Billion in 2013 and that losses in Q1 2014 are already $929 million. In my article, "Mobile Tech between a Rock and a Hard Place", I noted: Intel’s chief executive Brian Krzanich admitted at the firm’s November 2013 annual investor … [Read more...]