PyFR, the Python-based GPU accelerated CFD solver PyFR managed by TechEnablement contributor Peter Vincent has been shortlisted for several HPCWire Readers Choice Awards this year: 12. Best HPC Software Product or Technology 18. Best HPC Collaboration Between Academia & Industry 20. Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch If you would like to support them, … [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...]
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...]
Microsoft Holographic Academy – Great comments, expensive Hololens device to launch with Win10
Previews of Microsoft Hololens show very positive comments and a wildly expensive pricing model with Forbes.com reports Microsoft Hololens will cost significantly more than $400. For that money, preview partners like cnet report, "[t]he experience still leaves me giddy, and ready to toss an as yet undisclosed sum of money into Microsoft's coffers", backed by ubergizo who wrote, … [Read more...]
GCC 5.1 Now Available – Includes Preliminary OpenACC and OpenMP 4.0
The GNU project has released GCC 5.1, which is a major update including a preliminary version of OpenACC and OpenMP 4.0 capability. The source code can be downloaded and built from the mirror sites or the SVN server. Don't expect much in terms of OpenACC performance as the execution model currently only allows for one gang, one worker, and a number of vectors. OpenMP 4 looks … [Read more...]
OpenPower and CUDA-Accelerated Java as a Path Into the Enterprise
TechEnablement spoke with NVIDIA's John Ashley about the role of CUDA-accelerated Java in the enterprise and the approaches people are taking to accelerate Java with GPUs. Mixing CUDA and Java is an atypical approach because Java's intent is to abstract the software away from the hardware so it can run anywhere. In contrast, CUDA is specifically designed to provide hardware … [Read more...]