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 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...]
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...]
IWOCL 2014 (International Workshop on OpenCL) presentations are now online
IWOCL 2014 presentations are now available online. The International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) is an annual meeting of OpenCL users, researchers, developers and suppliers to share OpenCL best practise, and to promote the evolution and advancement of the OpenCL standard. The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in contributing to, and participating in the OpenCL … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s Women Who CUDA Campaign – May 30, 2014 Deadline!
On May 8, 2014 NVIDIA launched the Women Who CUDA campaign to highlight the work of innovative women in the area of GPU computing. Winning entries in the CUDA Women survey (click here to enter) - that is open until May 30, 2014, will be published on the high-visibility, high-volume NVIDIA website. Tweets during the campaign will provide visibility in the GPU computing community … [Read more...]
MultiOS Gaming CUDA & OpenCL Via a Virtual Machine
Update 12/1/14: Intel now offers through the Xen project full GPU virtualization for Intel 4th generation devices. Operating system virtualization is a convenient way to run multiple operating systems at the same time, on the same hardware, without requiring rebooting. There are several technologies that allow sharing of the GPU by both the host (native) and guest … [Read more...]
May 2014 Current K1 Development Pathways
NVIDIA Tegra K1 Jetson development kits are now available for purchase from Newegg or Microcenter. The NVIDIA Tegra K1 chip has generated much interest due to the CUDA programmability and power efficiency of the ARM/Kepler ceepee-geepee combination. Upcoming Tegra K1 devices include the Xiaomi MiPad, NVIDIA's reference design tablet, plus the K1 powered Shield 2 gaming device. … [Read more...]