IBM and the University of Illinois to Pioneer Next-Generation Cognitive Computing Systems New Center advances how Watson and other machine learning systems can accelerate a range of cognitive computing applications such as multi-modal education YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and URBANA, IL. April 15, 2016 – IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans for a multi-year collaboration … [Read more...]
Lucid VR brings 3D cameras for Virtual Reality to the masses
Lucid VR develops 3D 180-degree VR cameras that amps up Virtual Reality (VR) content creation by adding 3D stereoscopic imaging to a VR video capture at a price point that makes VR cameras available to the masses. Videos from Lucid VR cameras can be viewed immediately after capture on a cell phone or any Virtual Reality headset. Further, using the camera requires little effort … [Read more...]
Pascal upgrade and Intel Xeon Phi at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
It was announced at GTC 2016 that the Piz Daint system at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland will be upgraded to 4,500 Pascal GPUs. No date was stated for when the upgrade will be completed. The upgrade is expected to more than double the performance of Piz Daint, which currently provides 7.8 PF/s of performance. The announcement provides a … [Read more...]
Power 9 info plus IBM to make NVlink demo system available
TechEnablement spoke with Brad McCredie (Vice President and IBM Fellow) today about the Power 9 announcement and the accessibility of an OpenPower system with NVlink. The good news is that interested groups can submit proposals now to get access to OpenPower systems and to get access - according to McCredie - to an OpenPower using NVlink in the third quarter of this … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s Pascal GPUs spell the end of ‘offload mode is required’ for accelerators
Today at the 2016 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the first of a new line of Pascal architecture GPUs- the P100. Jen-Hsun noted that the P100 GPUs are in volume production now, but the initial production runs have already been purchased. Consumers should look to first run on the P100 GPUs in the cloud. While Jen-Hsun's keynote focused … [Read more...]
OpenACC Highlights at GTC 2016
GTC 2016, the upcoming GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which is being held in San Jose, CA April 4-7, 2016 contains several OpenACC talks of note. If you are attending, check out the following OpenACC related activities. If not, NVIDIA will put the videos online within a short period after the conference. S6524 - Enabling the Electronic Structure Program Gaussian on GPGPUs … [Read more...]
Code Modernization Efforts Deliver a 32.9X Speedup in STAC-A2™ Financial Industry Standard Benchmarks
Global financial industry leaders such as Citi and J.P. Morgan have acknowledged they are currently modernizing their code via collaborative efforts with the Intel Software and Solutions Group. Results reported in the recent presentation, Intel’s New STAC A2 Results and Speeding Up FX LSV Monte Carlo case study[1], demonstrate an overall 32.9X speedup in the financial industry … [Read more...]
Microsoft Hololens Vision for Superbowl Sunday
Microsoft shows a vision of the future with people enhancing their view of the Superbowl by wearing the Microsoft Hololens at home. Note how the commercial conveys how the Hololens ability to move and limited field of view will affect the viewing experience. https://youtu.be/oKqzeoMCU0c … [Read more...]
Researchers Find Vulnerability in Two-Factor Authentication
Nasir Memon, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, along with doctoral students Hossein Siadati and Toan Nguyen, found that users may be tricked into sharing their verification code with a malicious party using a much simpler tactic by simply asking them via a phishing attack. The full paper can be found … [Read more...]
OpenCL Programmers – Help GIMP Get OpenCL Hardware Acceleration
StreamComputing launched an educational initiative this week that aims to get more developers to study and use OpenCL in their projects. Within this project, up to 20 collaborators will port as many GEGL operations to OpenCL as possible. There is tons of work to be done, but the benefit is that your code will be running in GIMP. Vincent Hindriksen and Adel Johar … [Read more...]