The paper, "Estimating GPU Speedups for Programs Without Writing a Single Line of GPU Code" by Newsha Ardalani, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Xiaojin Zhu at the University of Wisconsin Madison claims a linear regression model can deliver a robust "automated tool that programmers can use to estimate potential GPU speedup before writing any GPU code". According to their study a … [Read more...]
Bringing “Getting-by” Girls into Science and Technology
Recent gender diversity reports from Google, Facebook, and Apple (to name a few) have spurred a number of positive efforts to bring more women into computer science including the Supercomputing 2014 (SC14 WHPC) “Women in High Performance Computing” workshop, NVIDIA’s “Women who CUDA” campaign, and Google’s $50M “Women Who Code” program. The severely biased percentages for tech … [Read more...]
CUDA 6.5 Production Release Includes Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!
The CUDA 6.5 production release is now out and it supports Ubuntu 14.04! Now we can all enjoy the latest CUDA and Ubuntu releases. Register for the upcoming webinars about the new features in CUDA 6.5: Aug. 26, 2014 "CUDA 6.5 Overview and Features", and Sept. 17, 2014, "Performance Overview". Meanwhile, it is time to upgrade from that older Ubuntu 12.04 release. BTW: The … [Read more...]
Facial Recognition Now Apprehending Suspects
Success is now being reported on the use of facial recognition software to apprehend suspects along with continued expressions of fear about the technology. Within the last week (Aug 13) a US fugitive connected with child sex abuse and kidnapping charges was apprehended in Nepal after authorities scanned his "wanted" poster with facial recognition tech. From eliminating keys … [Read more...]
Fully Autonomous Helicopter and Unmanned Vehicle Conduct Successful Combined Mission
A Lockheed Martin K-MAX unmanned helicopter delivered an SMSS unmanned ground vehicle during a fully autonomous autonomous resupply, reconnaissance, surveillance and target-acquisition demonstration at Fort Benning, Georgia. A safety pilot was on board K-MAX but did not operate the controls at any point during the demonstration."The synergistic use of unmanned air and ground … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Refreshes Quadro Lineup (including Maya, 3dsMax, & SolidWorks videos)
Nvidia announced new Quadro cards that deliver an enterprise-grade visual computing platform with up to twice the application performance and data-handling capability of the previous generation. The new generation of Quadro GPUs -- the K5200, K4200, K2200, K620 and K420 -- enables users to: Interact with data sets or designs up to twice the size handled by previous … [Read more...]
Harvard 1024 Bot Robotic Swarm Self-Assembles 2D Shapes
Harvard is on a robotic role with Origami self-folding robots and now the Radhika Nagpal, Mike Rubenstein, and Alex Cornejo awith a self-assembling swarm of 1,024 robots. These kilobots—where a kilo stands for 1,024—can form complex 2D shapes including a star, a wrench, and the letter "k." Among the many challenges faced by the researchers is accounting for variations in the … [Read more...]
Registration Open Until Aug 29 for ORNL OpenACC Hackathon
Get expert help and training plus get your code running on accelerators with OpenACC! Registration is now open for the OpenACC Hackathon at ORNL. The entry period will stay open for only 2 weeks and will close August 29th. Selected teams will be notified September 5th. Prior GPU experience is not required! Details Start: October 27 @ 8:00 amEnd: October 31 @ 1:00 … [Read more...]
Berkeley Online and Onsite 2014 Short Course on Parallel Programming – Aug. 18
Monday August 18, 2014 the Berkeley EECS ( Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, UC Berkeley) will provide an on-site and on-line introduction to parallel architectures and programming issues, a thorough exposure to languages and tools for shared memory programming, including hands-on experience, a presentation of high level programming parallel … [Read more...]
Khronos OpenROAD Video Shows What is Possible With OpenGL and OpenCL
Khronos OpenROAD is an animated video featuring all the royalty-free Khronos APIs working together in an open ecosystem. http://youtu.be/ckD0op6OgMQ … [Read more...]