Alarmed by increasing encounters between small drones and manned aircraft, drone industry officials said they are teaming up with the government and model aircraft hobbyists to launch a safety campaign. The FAA has been receiving about 25 reports per month this year of drones sighted flying near manned aircraft or airports, up from just a handful of reports two years ago. … [Read more...]
SenseHUD $99 Heads Up Display for Cars – Pre-Order Price
For a limited time, SenseHUD is breaking the $100 in-car HUD (Heads-up Display) barrier! Offering an on-screen HUD and speakerphone, SenseHUD helps keep the drivers eye's on the road rather than messing around with a smartphone! Note the software is extra and the $100 price is a limited time pre-order price. Competitor Navdy offers a $299 (pre-order price) for an … [Read more...]
Chromebooks Can Run Linux Without Dual-booting!
Chromebooks can now run Linux without dual-booting via Crouton (ChRomium Os Universal chrooT envirONment)! A big advantage of Crouton is that users don't have to reboot their machine to switch operating systems. Moving to Linux can be as simple as using a keyboard shortcut. Crouton can be downloaded from github (). Crouton is a set of scripts that act as an easy-to-use, … [Read more...]
Facebook Open Source GPU FFT 1.5x Faster Than NVIDIA CUFFT
Facebook has written a Fast Fourier Transform (fbfft) that is 1.5x faster than the NVIDIA CUFFT implementation at sizes 8-64. The paper "Fast Convolutional Nets with fbfft: A GPU Performance Evaluation" discusses the performance increases by changing to a non-zero padded FFT layout (potentially eliminating data copies), the use of autotuning, and clipping to conditionally load … [Read more...]
ORNL Introductory Tutorials On Concurrent Kernels
The OLCF at Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is working to educate users about how to best use their computing resources. As part of that process, the OLCF has published two very introductory tutorials to teach how to utilize concurrent kernels on their systems. Part 1 (concurrent kernels) and Part 2 (batched library calls) teach how to launch concurrent kernels using CUDA … [Read more...]
Computational Method Accurately Predicts Pressure-Dependent Combustion Chemical Reactions
A featured paper in the December 5th 2014 issue of Science demonstrates - for the first time - a computational method to successfully a priori predict pressure-dependent chemical reaction rates. In short, this work provides an accurate means of treating pressure dependence, which is required to accurately predict the aggregate reaction rate. Unlike previous models that rely on … [Read more...]
Implications of OS Jitter on Real-Time Applications for FPGAs, GPUs, and Intel
FPGAs, GPUs, and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors can all offer superb performance at low watt/flop and high flop/dollar ratios for real-time computing. To promote real-time FPGA development, several Altera Engineers (Chee Nouk Phoon,Chei Siang Ng, Steve Jahnke, plus Findlay Shearer, Linux Marketing Manager) examined the impact of operating system jitter on real-time performance in … [Read more...]
Nine NSF Funding Opportunities
A data-intensive effort: Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences (RIDIR) Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 23, 2015 As part of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks to … [Read more...]
Speed Python Numerical Applications by 2x – 120x With HOPE
HOPE is an open source specialized method-at-a-time JIT compiler written in Python. It translates Python source code into C++ and compiles the generated code at runtime to achieve a 2x - 120x performance speedup over interpreted Python code. HOPE is published under the GPLv3 license. It can be downloaded from it's GitHub repository. It was written by Joel Akeret, Lukas Gamper, … [Read more...]
Trend – Web And Big-Box Retailers the Future of Primary Medical Care
To reduce costs, a number of health organizations like Kaiser-Permanente, Bellin Health, PinnicleHealth, QualMed, and others are teaming with big-box retailers like Target, Safeway, Giant and other big-box retailers to create in-store medical clinics for primary care. The model is web-based where nurses and nurse practitioners staff the in-store location to screen patients. If … [Read more...]