Sumit Gupta is a busy man. Named by HPCwire as a 2013 "Person to Watch", Sumit does not idly take time to create a blog post unless it conveys a message about the NVIDIA Tesla development and marketing effort. His recent blog, "Fostering an Explosion of Innovation in the Data Center", posted by Steve Hamm, recognizes how the data-center is going to be supporting mobile … [Read more...]
Proof-of-Concept WebCL Chrome Browser Available from AMD
AMD has been working on implementing WebCL inside a Chrome browser to enable web programmer's access to OpenCL acceleration plus WebCL and WebGL interoperability. (Firefox, Chrome and Safari all have some form of WebCL support.) The following video shows the potential: http://youtu.be/dGD9NpipcrE Hands on experience can be found through the Chromium-WebCL github project, … [Read more...]
Battery Powered Supercomputing for the Masses: First Impression of the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 board
GTC 2014 demonstrated that we have now entered the "Battery Powered Supercomputing for the Masses" era. I had the opportunity to experience a Jetson TK1 board running ubuntu 13.04 at the hands-on lab. First impressions were very positive with a snappy response to the Ubuntu window system.. The GTC hands-on labs are oriented for techies and not the press. They provide a very … [Read more...]
WebCL 1.0 specification released
We all know that browser accelerated 3D graphics are coming and that this technology solution - however instantiated - is going to be a tremendous money maker. WebCL is a technology to watch for browser accelerated 3D graphics. The release of the webCL 1.0 specification is the latest evolution in the Khrnos effort to bring 3D browser acceleration to the Internet. WebCL 1.0 … [Read more...]
Intel Releases OpenCL™ 1.2 Support for Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors
The Intel press room announced that OpenCL support is now available (link). The new SDK broadens options for developers on Intel® architecture and includes tools, optimization guides and training. The SDK helps OpenCL developers improve performance and efficiency on Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors and Intel® Xeon® processors For those interested in using OpenCL to program … [Read more...]
CUDA 6.0 Released
The CUDA 6 Production Release is now available for download at www.nvidia.com/getcuda. This version of the toolkit includes features that further simplify parallel programming like: • Unified Memory: simplifies programming by enabling applications to access the CPU and GPU memory without the need to manually copy data. • Drop-in Libraries: automatically accelerate … [Read more...]
Farber teaches massively parallel computing to grade 6 – 12 students in Saudi Arabia
My book, “CUDA Application Design and Development” [English][Chinese] and Doctor Dobbs tutorials coupled with the rapid adoption of GPU computing have given me the opportunity to speak and teach around the world. This January, I had the pleasure of traveling to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to speak and teach a short course on OpenACC and CUDA at KAUST (the King Abdullah University of … [Read more...]