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...]
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...]
Metagenomic Sequence Clustering using CUDA-enabled GPUs
There have been huge advances in DNA sequencing technologies in recent years; e.g. Illumina has just announced the HiSeq X system which can sequence human genomes at a cost of only $1000 per genome. Besides population-scale human genome sequencing another important application of sequencing technologies is environmental sequencing (so called metagenomics). Metagenomic studies … [Read more...]
Monetizing Image Recognition By Looking at the Background
Deep-Learning image recognition is a hot-topic. The billion dollar thought is to create a "Google" of image search (or a mesh-search engine for 3D printing and animation), but that requires rather high search fidelity. A lower-fidelity approach is to use key information provided in selfies - specifically the identity of the individual in the … [Read more...]
Fujitsu and Oracle SPARC64 – The Same Chip Distinguished by the Interconnect?
Fujitsu recently reported on their exascale path for SPARC64, which is interesting for HPC but unclear about the enterprise. Meanwhile, Oracle announced details of their Sparc M7 processor. It is not clear if the Oracle and Fujutsu SPARC64 chips are essentially the same -with the exception of the Tofu 2 vs. Bixby interconnect. We know that the Tofu Interconnect is a proprietary … [Read more...]
SPARC64 1 TF/s DP, 2 TF/s SP With 32 Cores And Stacked Memory
Described as part of Fujitsu's path to exascale, the new Fujitsu SPARC64 enters an enterprise (and HPC) market ripe with ARM64 products quickly coming to market and Intel aggressively working to preserve market share with products such as Intel Xeon Phi and FPGAs stacked on-top of a CPU package. The SPARC64 product looks nice (see infographic below), but key information about … [Read more...]
Nvidia Talks About ARM64 and 64-bit K1 SoC
The Hot Chips 2014 conference conveyed some hot information this week about Nvidia's 64-bit Tegra K1 -the first 64-bit ARM processor for Android devices that pairs the dual-core "Project Denver" CPU with Nvidia's 192-core Kepler GPU (a ceepee geepee). The ARM-based Denver CPU was custom designed by Nvidia and is compatible with ARM's 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture. The chip is … [Read more...]
DARPA Goals, Requirements, and History of the SyNAPSE Project
The DARPA Synapse project webpage provides detailed information about the SyNAPSE project - including goals, requirements and history. The IBM TrueNorth SyNAPSE chip that has gained so much attention is one outcome of this project. Link: http://www.artificialbrains.com/darpa-synapse-program. Those at Supercomputing 2009 saw an early report on the project via the Supercomputing … [Read more...]
Yobi3D Finds 3D Meshes For Animations And 3D Printing
Want to use that free version of Pixar's Renderman or a GPU accelerated version of blender? How about printing a cool 3D object? If so, Yoib3D is your best new friend who can find 3D meshes for your 3D object needs! Check Yobi3D's response to a search for "monsters" in the following screenshot: Turbosquid also finds … [Read more...]
Amazing Animated Images with Autodesk Draco and Kitty – Yes Even For WordPress!
Way cool for illustrations! Add animated images as an image to your website or WordPress blog. The following "images" were just copied and pasted into this WordPress post. No other work required! Draco was pioneered by Rubaiat Habib, Fanny Chevalier, Tovi Grossman, Shengdong Zhao and George Fitzmaurice as means to revolutionize the way illustrators and animators … [Read more...]