NVIDIA is providing a free, interactive, online OpenACC course starting on October 1, 2015. The course is made up of four instructor-led classes that include interactive lectures, hands-on exercises, and live office hours with the instructors. Register here! Classes start at 9am PT on Thursdays and "Office Hours" are 9AM PT on Tuesdays. All sessions will be recorded for … [Read more...]
Try Pixar In A Box For Free – Learn How Math Makes Movies
Pixar wants to teach you how to make movies! Created with middle and high school students in mind but available to everyone, Pixar in a Box is a free software package, created in collaboration with Kann Academy, that is designed to teach the fusion of art, technology, science, engineering, and math that Pixar uses to develop wonderful animated movies. Try it now … [Read more...]
Learn to Modernize your code at IDF
Code modernization is easily the most beneficial, significant, and long-lasting investment the HPC community can make to capitalize on current and future hardware investments. The upcoming Intel IDF15 sees itself as partnership between Intel and code developers, makers, and technologists to bring software into the age of lotsofcores and massive parallelism. Register today … [Read more...]
Windows 10 Arrives – Problematic Nvidia Driver
The free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and 8.x has arrived! It will be rolled out starting with people on the Windows Insider program who participated in the evolution of the new "Windows-as-a-service" policy (jokingly referred to as the "eternal beta"). Apparently, Windows is now a "service", meaning that you will get to keep it free of charge for the lifetime of your machine … [Read more...]
More Trinity Racks Installed
"The proof of the pudding is in the tasting" is coming to fruition for the Trinity procurement as Cray installs more racks of the Trinity self-hosted Intel Knights Landing (KNL) processors. Each set of 12 cabinets is delivered, connected and tested one row at a time, by the Cray installation team. When all the phase-one cabinets have been delivered (60 in all), Cray will … [Read more...]
PathScale Supports OpenMP4 and OpenACC On NVIDIA, AMD, ARMv8, Plus Some CUDA
PathScale is capitalizing on over six years of development with the release of ENZO 2015, a compiler suite that allows C/C++/Fortran parallel programs to be built for a variety of hardware platforms from a single OpenACC or OpenMP4 source base. The PathScale compilers can generate executables for AMD GPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs as well as ARMv8 and x86 instruction sets. As a result, … [Read more...]
Intel Extends Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Intel extended it's research collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) – one of four Intel exascale labs in Europe. Begun in 2011 and now extended to September 2017, the Intel-BSC work focuses on scalability issues as parallel applications move towards the exascale. BSC has been making HPC tools such as an instrumentation package (Extrae), a performance data … [Read more...]
Aug. 2015 Computational Chemical Biology Conference in Australia
The Computational Chemical Biology conference is Chaired by Ross Walker (University of California San Diego) and Ian Gould (Imperial College London) will bring together scientists to discuss multidisciplinary research that leverages computer simulation to address key questions crossing the physical sciences-life sciences/biomedical interface. Topics will include advances in … [Read more...]
Port Some CUDA Codes To Intel Xeon Phi Simply and Efficiently
This tutorial shows that it relatively easy to port many CUDA C/C++ source codes to OpenMP. In the past, such efforts were not generally considered worthwhile because of the large performance difference between multicore processors (that use OpenMP) and GPUs. The introduction of teraflop/s Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors eliminated that performance difference, which makes it much … [Read more...]
No longer a preview – Intel updates the INDE OpenCL Code Analyzer
Intel has updated the new OpenCL™ Code Analyzer, a feature of Intel® INDE OpenCL™ Code Builder, which adds performance analysis capabilities integrated into a Microsoft Visual Studio OpenCL development environment. No longer a preview, the OpenCL Code Builder now supports OpenCL code development, which enables developers to carry on performance optimizations in each step of … [Read more...]