LucidLogix Technologies “Lucid”, the provider of the recently launched multi-GPU HYDRA technology, today announced it has secured $18 million in Series C round of funding from Rho Ventures. This investment is the largest to date, bringing total capitalization to $32 million.
Rho Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Genesis Partners and Giza Venture [...]

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NVIDIA Tesla and CUDA Technologies Transform the Oil and Gas Industry
SANTA CLARA, CA-OCTOBER 29, 2008- Houston-based SeismicCity announced today that it is using NVIDIA®® Tesla™ S1070 1U systems for Reverse Time Migration (RTM) - one of the most advanced seismic imaging techniques ever used by the oil and gas industry. SeismicCity selected the NVIDIA Tesla [...]

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Herb Sutter, known for his articles on concurrency, published an article on Lock-free code on August 5th and another on creating a lock-free queue. Today Dr. Dobb’s Journal publishes another article by Herb discussing how to tackle the general problem of supporting multiple producers and multiple consumers with as much concurrency as possible.
“Last month, I [...]

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Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on Monday, and developers may be pleased with the new parallel computing capabilities now available in the CTP.
To better deal with the problems of concurrency, where threads of code run at the same time and [...]

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The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium today announced that EEMBC President Markus Levy is a guest editor for the May/June 2009 special issue of IEEE Micro to be devoted to embedded multicore processors and systems. Tom Conte, professor in the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, will co-edit the forthcoming issue.
Embedded multicore processors [...]

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Author: Dmitriy V’jukov for Intel Software Network
While dealing with Transactional Memory I realize new interesting application of Transactional Memory for SINGLE threaded applications. Atomicity guarantees provided by TM can be useful not only for multi-threaded environment, but also for single-threaded environment. Well, it’s actually not astonishing, nevertheless I didn’t hear anything similar in all that [...]

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The rapid adoption of multi-core processors is revolutionizing the way applications and solutions are being built. The demand for individuals able to meet the challenges of this technology keeps pace. Under the Multi-Core Curriculum Initiative, Intel is working with leading universities worldwide to prepare university students for this new paradigm of software development. Through training, [...]

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Toshiba Corp. Monday (Oct. 27) launched a new line-up of 43-nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory products available in densities ranging from 512 Mbits to 64 Gbits.
The new lineup includes three products—16Gb, 32Gb and 64Gb—which integrate 43-nm monolithic 16Gb chips, the highest density SLC NAND chips available, according to Toshiba. The devices will come [...]

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“The field of data-parallel programming/computation is a very active one, since apparently it’s a very important one as well for a few reasons. These reasons are not trivial and by no means unique to the field. Some of these reasons are:
* Much of business and research activities rely on timely and [...]

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Aonix®, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced the release of PERC Ultra SMP with support for Concurrent’s RedHawk™ real-time Linux® and associated NightStar™ advanced Linux debugging and analysis tools. PERC Ultra, Aonix’s flagship product, targets the same time-critical applications such as simulation and training, data acquisition, imaging, [...]

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In the first part of this “Is the Free Lunch Really Over?” series, Michael Wrinn wrote about view of Amdahl’s law and scaled speedup (of John Gustafson) of many-core processors for Intel Software Network. In the Part 2 of this series, he discusses the efficient use of locks, and in particular at two guiding principles: [...]

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On October 23rd, IBM released the IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration Version 3.1, which is available for two different Linux® distributions (RHEL 5.2 and Fedora 9) and in three different package bundles: Product, Developer, and Extras. These three package bundles group the SDK content by support level and code maturity. For more information about [...]

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picoChip today announced that it ranked number three in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on average percentage revenue growth over five years. picoChip grew 4483 percent during this period.
Guillaume d’Eyssautier, picoChip’s president and CEO, credits the emergence and the [...]

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The world economy and especially the economy in the U.S. is a hot topic. The poor economy is the reason cited by many companies from auction giant eBay to massive consumer electronics retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City for falling profits.
So far, the GPU industry is maintaining its growth, which is an impressive feat. [...]

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Paving the way for its upcoming 28-nm process, Taiwan foundry provider United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) said that it has manufactured functional 28-nm SRAM chips. The technology also supports both high-k/metal-gates and silicon dioxide.
UMC’s 28-nm process provides almost twice the density of its 40-nm technology, which is currently being produced at its 300-mm fabs. UMC (Hsinchu, [...]

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Express Logic, Inc., the leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced the stunning results achieved by Sony Corporation engineers using Express Logic’s NetX(TM) TCP/IP network stack and ThreadX(R) RTOS. The paper “Network Processing on an SPE Core in Cell Broadband Engine(TM),” recently presented at the 16th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects reports [...]

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Authors: Bryan Cantrill and Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems for ACM Queue
Software practitioners today could be forgiven if recent microprocessor developments have given them some trepidation about the future of software. While Moore’s law continues to hold (that is, transistor density continues to double roughly every 18 months), as a result of both intractable physical [...]

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ARM, a British processor design company is recognized for its preeminence in the smartphone market. After marking its presence in the manufacture of smartphones, as well as the iPhone, the company is now ready to launch a netbook capable processor. The novel product is expected to offer competition to Intel’s Atom.
Speaking about the company’s latest [...]

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The introduction of multi-core, along with new gate technologies and a redesign of the most power-hungry parts of a CPU, has led to processors that use significantly less power, yet deliver greater raw processing performance than their antecedents.
An example is the Intel Atom, a low power IA processor which uses 45nm Hi-K transistor gates. By [...]

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This article was published many years ago by Phil Kerly on Intel Software Network. Cache blocking is a compiler optimization technique to utilize data that has already been cached. The technique can also be performed in application code. Although this article was published in single-core era, the cache blocking technique can still be used in [...]

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