The CUDA 6.5 production release is now out and it supports Ubuntu 14.04! Now we can all enjoy the latest CUDA and Ubuntu releases. Register for the upcoming webinars about the new features in CUDA 6.5: Aug. 26, 2014 "CUDA 6.5 Overview and Features", and Sept. 17, 2014, "Performance Overview". Meanwhile, it is time to upgrade from that older Ubuntu 12.04 release. BTW: The … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Refreshes Quadro Lineup (including Maya, 3dsMax, & SolidWorks videos)
Nvidia announced new Quadro cards that deliver an enterprise-grade visual computing platform with up to twice the application performance and data-handling capability of the previous generation. The new generation of Quadro GPUs -- the K5200, K4200, K2200, K620 and K420 -- enables users to: Interact with data sets or designs up to twice the size handled by previous … [Read more...]
Registration Open Until Aug 29 for ORNL OpenACC Hackathon
Get expert help and training plus get your code running on accelerators with OpenACC! Registration is now open for the OpenACC Hackathon at ORNL. The entry period will stay open for only 2 weeks and will close August 29th. Selected teams will be notified September 5th. Prior GPU experience is not required! Details Start: October 27 @ 8:00 amEnd: October 31 @ 1:00 … [Read more...]
Berkeley Online and Onsite 2014 Short Course on Parallel Programming – Aug. 18
Monday August 18, 2014 the Berkeley EECS ( Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, UC Berkeley) will provide an on-site and on-line introduction to parallel architectures and programming issues, a thorough exposure to languages and tools for shared memory programming, including hands-on experience, a presentation of high level programming parallel … [Read more...]
Commercial OpenCL! SPIR 2.0 Protects IP Yet Allows Powerful, Portable, Source Code Free Kernels
It used to be that portable OpenCL applications required shipping source code for the parallel kernels with the application. In this way, the kernel source code could be compiled for any device at any time in the future. Bad news from an IP protection point of view! The alternative was to pre-compile the kernels thus bloating applications and limiting the devices the OpenCL … [Read more...]
Acer K1-powered Chromebook $279 for Pre-Order – Dual-boot Linux?
The Acer Chromebook 13, priced at $279, is the first Chromebook to use an NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor. It offers customers fast graphics and a 13-hour battery in an ultra-mobile form factor. Available for presale now at Amazon.com and BestBuy.com. Spec from Amazon.com: Screen Size 13.3 inches Max Screen Resolution 1366 x 768 pixels Processor 2.1 GHz … [Read more...]
GPU Accelerated Genetic Algorithm Can Plan Drone Missions
Both the military and commercial organizations like Amazon will be interested in the GPU accelerated genetic algorithm (GA) proposed in the paper "UAV Path Planning with Parallel Genetic Algorithms on CUDA architecture" to create flight plans for drones. The authors noted "The experiments in this study show that the results reach up to 24 times speedup comparing to the CPU … [Read more...]
Accelerating the Traveling Salesman Problem with GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is an important computer science optimization problem with numerous real-world applications. There is a huge body of literature on TSP solutions. Following are a few GPU and Intel Xeon Phi accelerated solutions. TSPgpu TSPGPU v2.1 is a GPU-accelerated heuristic solver for the symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem with up to 32767 … [Read more...]
Depth-Categorizing GPU-Accelerated Deep Neural Networks Perform Fast Semantic Segmentation of RGB-D Scenes
Interesting for computer vision and animation, the paper by Nico Höft, Hannes Schulz, and Sven Behnke, "Fast Semantic Segmentation of RGB-D Scenes with GPU-Accelerated Deep Neural Networks" categorizes the surface to which each pixel in an image belongs. Semantic scene segmentation is a major challenge on the way to functional computer vision systems that can separately label … [Read more...]
WRF Comparison – Neither Phi or NVIDIA M2070 Living Up to Name
WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) is an important benchmark for weather modeling, computational scientists, and procurements. WRF is a mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both atmospheric research and operational forecasting needs. It allows researchers to generate atmospheric simulations based on real data (observations, analyses) or … [Read more...]