The Acer Chromebook 13, priced at $279, is the first Chromebook to use an NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor. It offers customers fast graphics and a 13-hour battery in an ultra-mobile form factor. Available for presale now at Amazon.com and BestBuy.com. Spec from Amazon.com: Screen Size 13.3 inches Max Screen Resolution 1366 x 768 pixels Processor 2.1 GHz … [Read more...]
GPU Accelerated Genetic Algorithm Can Plan Drone Missions
Both the military and commercial organizations like Amazon will be interested in the GPU accelerated genetic algorithm (GA) proposed in the paper "UAV Path Planning with Parallel Genetic Algorithms on CUDA architecture" to create flight plans for drones. The authors noted "The experiments in this study show that the results reach up to 24 times speedup comparing to the CPU … [Read more...]
Accelerating the Traveling Salesman Problem with GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is an important computer science optimization problem with numerous real-world applications. There is a huge body of literature on TSP solutions. Following are a few GPU and Intel Xeon Phi accelerated solutions. TSPgpu TSPGPU v2.1 is a GPU-accelerated heuristic solver for the symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem with up to 32767 … [Read more...]
NESAP – The NERSC Exascale Science Application Program – Eight Post-doc Positions to be Filled
DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. NERSC is currently hiring eight post-docs to assist this effort. The NESAP program at NERSC addresses the software issues that will arise as scientists adapt their applications to … [Read more...]
Siggraph 2014 Technical Papers Quick Overview Video – 3:32
Spend three minutes and view following video provides a whirlwind overview of the Siggraph 2014 technical papers http://youtu.be/u3Z1hDwGEmM Don't forget to see the two minute emerging technologies overview video: … [Read more...]
Siggraph 2014 Emerging Technology Quick Overview Video – 2minutes
Spend two minutes and view following video provides a whirlwind overview of the Siggraph 2014 emerging technologies. http://youtu.be/rmyGD4yRTGE Don't forget to view the three minute technical paper overview: … [Read more...]
Machine-Learning At Siggraph Changes the Weather and Other Aspects of an Image
More machine-learning at Siggraph. A paper describing a machine-learning method being developed a Brown University enables users to instantly change the weather, time of day, season, or other features in outdoor photos with simple text commands. Changing the weather in a photo involves much more than simply turning a blue sky gray. There are subtle changes in color and … [Read more...]
Microsoft Shows Hyper-Lapse Video Tech for Smooth and Interesting Action Videos for the Masses
At Siggraph 2014, Microsoft is demonstrating a method to convert first-person videos, (e.g. captured with a helmet camera during activities such as rock climbing or bicycling) into hyper-lapse videos that effectively merge time-lapse segments of the video into a single video that looks like it was created with a smoothly moving camera. The results look great and are clearly … [Read more...]
Depth-Categorizing GPU-Accelerated Deep Neural Networks Perform Fast Semantic Segmentation of RGB-D Scenes
Interesting for computer vision and animation, the paper by Nico Höft, Hannes Schulz, and Sven Behnke, "Fast Semantic Segmentation of RGB-D Scenes with GPU-Accelerated Deep Neural Networks" categorizes the surface to which each pixel in an image belongs. Semantic scene segmentation is a major challenge on the way to functional computer vision systems that can separately label … [Read more...]
WRF Comparison – Neither Phi or NVIDIA M2070 Living Up to Name
WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) is an important benchmark for weather modeling, computational scientists, and procurements. WRF is a mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both atmospheric research and operational forecasting needs. It allows researchers to generate atmospheric simulations based on real data (observations, analyses) or … [Read more...]