The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) is an asynchronous message-passing library for the .NET platform that provides a set of small but powerful primitives that enable a different approach to structuring applications. The effective use of the CCR will result in an application that will be more responsive, will scale better and will be more [...]

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Sandbridge Technologies, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that sells multi-core chips targeting mobile 3G and 4G baseband and multimedia processing. The SB3500 chip includes three DSP cores along with an ARM core; each of the DSP cores supports four-way multithreading and 16-way SIMD operations. The SB3500 is implemented in a 65 nm process, and [...]

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“Sun’s president and chief executive officer Jonathan Schwartz declared yesterday that the company’s long-planned Rock processors remain on track for release this year.
This is good news for Sun watchers. With two rounds of layoffs that server and operating system maker Sun Microsystems announced in 2008 biting into the company’s research, development, sales, and marketing, Sun’s [...]

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Acumem, a provider of intelligent performance optimization software for single- and multi-core environments today announces that it now has full support for AMD’s new quad-core AMD Opteron™ processors in its Acumem ThreadSpotter and Acumem SlowSpotter™ performance optimization tools.
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Cramming ever more transistors into CPUs has not troubled chip makers Intel Corp. and AMD Inc. The problem, rather, has been how to handle the extreme heat generated by the movement of so many electrons in such a tiny space.
With heat sinks and fans not up to the task of cooling the 100 degree Celsius [...]

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Raza Microelectronics (RMI) announced a network-attached storage (NAS) reference design based on Linux and a new, lower-cost version of RMI’s previously available XLS208 SoC. RMI’s “NAS Media Server Reference Design” uses RMI’s new dual-core, 750MHz XLS108 SoC, and comes with a boot loader, SDK, and “RAID-enabled” Linux 2.6 implementation.
The RMI NAS Media Server Reference Design [...]

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Intel plans to detail an eight-core Xeon processor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco next month, offering an early look at what appears to be the company’s first eight-core chip.
Details of the Xeon processor that will be discussed during the Feb. 9 presentation are scarce. The ISSCC program only reveals that Intel [...]

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Rob Farber writes about CUDA programming for Dr. Dobb’s. In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 9 of this article series on CUDA (short for “Compute Unified Device Architecture”), he looked at how you extend high-level languages (like Python) with CUDA. In this installment, he examines CUDPP, the “CUDA Data Parallel Primitives Library.” CUDPP is [...]

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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced that it has developed a 4-Gbit DDR3 DRAM chip using a 50-nm manufacturing process. The memory operates at 1.35 volts and has a maximum data transmission speed of 1.6-Gbits per second, Samsung said.
“We have leveraged our strength in innovation to develop the first 4-Gbit DDR3, in leading the industry [...]

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Currently, NVIDIA is really missing out on the netbook market, which is dominated by all-Intel platform designs. NVIDIA has finally woken up to this reality, and the outspoken cofounder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, Jen-Hsun Huang, has launched an all-out campaign to promote his company’s Ion platform - and he isn’t shy of flinging some [...]

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Virtutech, Inc. the leading provider of virtualized system development (VSD) solutions, today announced that its principal technology specialist Ross Dickson will take part in panel discussions at DesignCon at the Santa Clara Conventions Center in Santa Clara, CA: “Multicore and Virtualization Key Enablers for Next-Generation Network Architecture,” from 1:30 to 4:30 PM PT, on Monday, [...]

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By Brian Clinton, Duolog
Today’s heterogeneous Systems on Chip (SoCs) architectures contain a variety of different building blocks like CPUs, DSPs, peripheral IPs, and subsystems. Included also is the modern Network on Chip (NoC), which acts as the central communication glue for these blocks.
The architect of the SoC has to come up with the best way [...]

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Nvidia on Wednesday said that William J. Dally, the chairman of Stanford University’s computer science department, will join the company as chief scientist and vice president of Nvidia research and will replace the veteran chief scientist of Nvidia David Kirk. The switch of the persons who are not responsible for rapid and general business decisions [...]

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Two spots will debut on Sunday: a 30-second trailer for the DreamWorks animated movie, Monsters vs. Aliens, and a second spot highlighting Sobe LifeWater energy drinks. A 3D-encoded version of the NBC show “Chuck” will be shown the day after the Super Bowl.
What’s the technology used in creating these ads?
DreamWorks used Intel’s Xeon processors [...]

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REvolution Computing, a leading provider of open source predictive analytics solutions, today announced that it has made a public version of its commercial grade REvolution R program available for download from its Web site. REvolution R is REvolution Computing’s distribution of the popular R statistical software, optimized for use in commercial environments.
With the latest release [...]

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The advent of multicore CPUs and manycore GPUs means that mainstream processor chips are now parallel systems. Furthermore, their parallelism continues to scale with Moore’s law. The challenge is to develop application software that transparently scales its parallelism to leverage the increasing number of processor cores, much as 3D graphics applications transparently scale their parallelism [...]

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NVIDIA is hosting a Tesla GPU Computing Webinar; taking place on Thursday, February 5 at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST. Attendees will learn about GPU computing, NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture, the Jacket engine for MATLAB from AccelerEyes, and how to get 10x to 50x speed-up for several MATLAB functions.
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009
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Connective Logic, a UK company, demonstrated their multicore software development platform named Blueprint at TechCrunch50 conference last year.
John Gross and Jeremy Orme of Connective Logic write a six-part article introducing Blueprint, that provides an alternative approach to multi-core development. While Blueprint is interoperable with technologies such as Microsoft’s Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Intel’s [...]

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Gartner sounded a warning on Wednesday about the impact on software of the rapid growth of multicore chips and the number of threads each processor can handle.
In a research note, the analysts argued that software is struggling to keep pace with the fast growth of multicore processors, first from two and four cores per processor, [...]

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Power Architecture® on multicore and virtualization presentations and demonstrations from Power.org and its member companies will take center stage at the DesignCon Conference February 2 - 5, 2009. The event, where Power.org is an Associate Sponsor, will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.
“This highly visible participation in DesignCon underscores [...]

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