The U.S. Department of Energy unveiled plans to build two GPU-accelerated leadership class supercomputers (Summit at ORNL and Sierra at LLNL) in a combined $325M USD procurement to be installed in 2017 that will be based on next-generation IBM POWER servers incorporating NVIDIA® Volta GPU accelerators plus NVLink™ high-speed GPU interconnect technology. The announcement by U.S. … [Read more...]
Augmented Reality Company Magic Leap Bought by Google for $500M
The reports are that the highly secretive augmented reality company Magic Leap has been acquired by Google for $500M. The acquisition of Magic Leap signals the chocolate factory wishes to become the Hersey's chocolatier for the augmented reality industry and demonstrates the demand for augmented reality applications. TechEnablement is observing a movement towards … [Read more...]
NASA Charts Path For CFD To 2030 – Projects Future Computer Technology!
The recent NASA-sponsored report CFD Vision 2030 Study: A Path to Revolutionary Computational Aerosciences is a must-read for everyone involved in Computational Fluid Dynamics and a very interesting read for those involved in computer technology. In a nutshell, “A single engineer/scientist must be able to conceive, create, analyze, and interpret a large ensemble of related … [Read more...]
DARPA Cyber Fault-tolerant Attack Recovery (CFAR) Due Nov 15, 2014
Full proposal due November 15, 2014, the DARPA program to develop "fault tolerant" networks which quickly detect and recover from cyber attacks. Multiple awards are available for TA-1, which is concerned with binary transformation of executables so that they perform the same function, but no longer exhibit the same susceptibility to cyber attack. In addition single awards are … [Read more...]
Analysis of Phylogenetic Tree Code Shows OpenACC Within 10% Of Native CUDA
The paper, "Accelerating Phylogenetic Inference on GPUs: an OpenACC and CUDA comparison" by University of Barcelona and Intel Barcelona Research Center claim near-CUDA performance for OpenACC - within 10% - that can be achieved when accelerating a Phylogenetic Tree code based on the popular MrBayes Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) package. Comparing with state-of-art … [Read more...]
MSI WS60 Mobile Workstation – Awesome CUDA-Capable, Linux, and Window Mobility
The recently released MSI mobile workstation (WS60 20 OJ 3K-004US) provides a no-compromise laptop for those who wish a thin-and-light desktop replacement at work and when traveling. This device is now my work machine of choice (that relegated a wonderful HP Z800 workstation to a remotely accessed resource). I have found that the WS60 provides a well-designed and … [Read more...]
AI Researchers Talk Up Benefits of GPUs for Deep Learning
With the ability to deliver TF/s to PF/s of performance even on nonlinear problems, deep-learning researchers who participated in the ImageNet competition are espousing the charms of GPU computing technology. At the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), held last week in Zurich, teams from Adobe, U.C. Berkeley, the National University of Singapore, Oxford University … [Read more...]
GPUdb Filters And Displays Billions Of Tweets In Seconds On Parallel Devices
Twitter is a fantastic news source and provider of billions of noisy, needle-in-the-haystack tweets to confound data-scientists and delight analysts plus commercial marketing efforts. Interactivity with billions of data items is key to developing, understanding, and validating analysis. (Validation is emphasized as Google was recently fingered by IEEE Spectrum for biased … [Read more...]
FabricEngine Leverages Python and LLVM For Digital Content Creation Everywhere
A company called FabricEngine (http://fabricengine.com) is leveraging the power of LLVM and Python to compile optimized code for Digital Content Creation (DCC) that can run on multicore and GPUs. Products like these demonstrate the acceptance of Python and LLVM into commercial/enterprise high-performance HPC applications just like PyFR and deep-learning. Integrated with … [Read more...]
Compare Augmented Reality Displays from NVIDIA, Oculus Rift, Meta, and Others (updated)
Augmented reality is poised to be the new computing display revolution - essentially the gold rush of the early 21st century. The key is the display. Following is information on various displays like Pinlight (110-degrees NVIDIA/UNC), Oculus Rift (110-degrees), Meta Space Glasses, Google Glass (& Navdy), plus the Brother AIRScouter and Lumus. One of the big issues is a … [Read more...]