Okay, this is cool (albeit slow if you watch the timeline in the video). Researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated how a single thin sheet composed of interconnected triangular sections could transform itself into a boat or plane shape — without help. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of … [Read more...]
IBM TrueNorth a “Bee Brain” on a SyNAPSE Chip That Uses 70 mW
IBM unveiled the first neurosynaptic computer chip on August 7th that implements one million programmable neurons, 256 million programmable synapses and 46 billion synaptic operations per second per watt. The IBM announcement, published in Science in collaboration with Cornell Tech, is a step towards bringing cognitive computers to society.At 5.4 billion transistors, this fully … [Read more...]
Intel Paper Detailing the Gen 7.5 GPU Architecture – Attention OpenCL Programmers !
Intel has labeled the Haswell graphic core as Gen 7.5 and the Ivy Bridge GPU as Gen.7. The latest Gen 7.5 Architecture paper, "The Compute Architecture of Intel® Processor Graphics Gen7.5" has now been released by Intel. This paper is written for those who wish to know the "architecture characteristics relevant to running compute applications on Intel® Processor … [Read more...]
Navdy Provides Portable Heads-Up Display for Android and Iphone
Think of the possibilities! The San Francisco startup Navdy is accepting pre-orders for their device that works with Android and Iphone "Navdy projects a transparent image into the driver's field of view which appears to float outside of the windshield". In other words, it is a portable HUD (Heads-Up Display) projector that works with mobile devices! The current 40% price is … [Read more...]
Robots that See Through Solid Walls Using Wi-Fi
For the past few years Yasamin Mostofi, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSB and her team have been busy realizing the dream of X-ray vision.by enabling robots to see objects and humans behind thick walls through the use of radio frequency signals. The project page is here. Dr Mostofi received the Presidential Early Career Award in … [Read more...]
AMD Firepro S9150 5 TF/s Single, 2.5 TF/s Double-Precision GPU and OpenCL 1.2 Support
AMD just announced the Firepro S9150 GPU, the first to break 2.0 TF/s double-precision performance. No word yet on pricing or availability. Specifications: Cooling/Power/Form Factor Max Power: 235W Bus Interface: PCIe® x16 Slots: Two Form Factor: Full height/ Full length Cooling: Passive heat sink Memory Size/Type: 16GB GDDR5 Interface: … [Read more...]
Summary of All SC14 Workshop Submissions With Important Dates – August Deadlines Fast Approaching
Hurry to submit your work! Following is a current list of the SC14 workshop submission annotated with the important dates. Please check the actual workshop websites for updates. The 9th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW) Abstract: Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, … [Read more...]
Open Call to Run on the Beacon Intel Xeon Phi System
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee (UT) is pleased to announce the 2014 open call for participation in the Beacon Project, an ongoing research project funded by the National Science Foundation and UT to explore the impact of emerging computer architectures on computational science and engineering. Beacon is a Cray CS300-AC … [Read more...]
Recovering Speech from a Potato-chip Bag Viewed Through Soundproof Glass – Even With Commodity Cameras!
Potatoes have ears as well as eyes - or at least potato-chip bags have ears. Researchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. The ACM paper, "The visual microphone: passive recovery of sound from video" describes the algorithm. Many surfaces flexible enough to … [Read more...]
ArrayFire Open Sources Tertiary Projects Only – More Promised Later
The ArrayFire GPU accelerated library software has made news by announcing they are moving to open source. Right now only the wrappers and examples that will bring more customers are currently open source. A business-savvy first move. Specifically, the ArrayFire website states, " ... it’s neither simple nor straightforward to take a closed software Open Source. Earlier … [Read more...]