by Alexander Wolfe
“AMD will take Opteron to the next level on June 1, when it formally unveils its 6-core Istanbul processor. The exciting angle for users of high-powered servers (and also viewed from a data-center consolidation perspective) is that Istanbul in 4-socket servers will deliver 24 physical cores. (And you can add virtualization on top [...]

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AMD today announced a global webcast event on June 1, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. Central time where new server platform information will be disclosed. The live webcast can be accessed at http://www.amd.com on the News Room home page, and it will be archived for 10 days following the event.
Since its introduction in 2003, the AMD [...]

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TechEd has been a venue for Microsoft to make big product and platform announcements, but it is ultimately a place where developers come to learn. Two sessions—on data privacy and multicore programming—were especially popular with attendees.
The broad availability of many-core processors is changing application architecture, but parallel programming remains challenging for many developers, Microsoft said. [...]

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“Gaston Hillar’s recent book will guide you through everything you need to start writing multithreaded C# applications. You will see how to use processes and threads in C#, .NET Framework features for concurrent programming, sharing memory space between threads, and much more. The book is full of practical, interesting examples and working code.
This book begins [...]

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Mentor Graphics’ Jon McDonald talks about multitude of choices in multicore design and programming strategies for multicore designs.

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By John Nieto, Inphi Corp for EDN
Applications demanding higher system bandwidth and lower power, such as converged notebooks, desktop PCs, and servers, continue to drive the evolution of industry standards, including DDR3 (double-data-rate 3), as the JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) Solid State Technology Association defines it. The latest DDR3-memory standard, JEDEC JESD79-3A, supports [...]

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Intel Corporation, yesterday released Intel® Parallel Studio, a suite of products designed specifically for Windows developers to create, debug and optimize applications for multicore processors. The tools will help software architects, developers and innovators to meet the challenges of programming for multicore processors.
Here are the slides James Reinders used to describe the features and benefits [...]

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by Rick Molloy for MSDN Magazine
Enabling C++ developers to write highly concurrent applications is a major focus of Visual Studio 2010. The beta release includes the Concurrency Runtime, parallel libraries, and development tools aimed at addressing several common problems preventing developers from unlocking the performance potential inherent to multicore hardware. Notably, this includes ensuring that [...]

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by Agam Shah (IDG News Service)
Intel’s eight-core Nehalem EX server processor will include a technology derived from its high-end Itanium chips that helps to reduce data corruption and ensure reliable server performance, the company said Tuesday.
The processor will include an error correction feature called MCA Recovery, which will detect and fix errors that could otherwise [...]

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by Johan De Gelas, AnandTech
Take two Nehalem dies, turn them 90 degrees, add a lot of system interface logic and 8 MB extra of L3-cache and you get - very oversimplified - the impressive Nehalem EX, alias “Beckton”. The new Xeon MP is an impressive monster, just like it’s predecessor Dunnington. Dunnington consisted of [...]

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Netronome introduced a new line of network flow processors designed for the next phase of convergence in enterprise and carrier data centers — the unified computing architectures that will combine massive I/O virtualization with high-level content and security packet processing. Netronome’s NFP-32xx family addresses this opportunity by combining high-performance network, content and security processing with [...]

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Intel on Tuesday disclosed details of its upcoming eight-core server processor that the chipmaker hopes will coax large companies from servers using the competing RISC design.
Intel plans to begin production on the new chip, code-named Nehalem-EX, in the second half of the year. Computer systems leveraging the technology are expected early next year.
Nehalem-EX is [...]

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Rambus Inc., one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed memory architectures, today unveiled a set of innovations that can advance computing main memory beyond current DDR3 data rate limits to 3200Mbps. These innovations, available for licensing, build on Rambus’ award-winning designs and include patented and patent pending technologies. Through this collection [...]

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The GPU Technology Conference is the most significant event in 2009 dedicated to application development on the GPU. Encompassing three simultaneous summits, this event will focus on the latest breakthroughs developers, engineers, and researchers are achieving through the use of the graphics processing unit (GPU) to solve the world’s most important computing challenges.
The conference will [...]

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NASA is ramping up a cloud computing initiative that could be used in support of its space missions and to give Earth-bound observers greater participation in the space program.An early version of NASA’s computing cloud, called Nebula, is already up and running.
Until now, NASA hasn’t said much about its plans for cloud computing. Chris [...]

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As part of parallel programming tutorial series, we linked to Blaise Barney’s parallel computing tutorial and to MapReduce tutorial. This part links to an MIT course website, which provides an introduction to parallel programming and parallel architectures. The lectures include:
* Introduction to Cell Processor
* Introduction to Parallel Architectures
* Introduction to Concurrent Programming
* Parallel Programming Concepts
* [...]

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Intel Corporation today announced the launch of Intel® Parallel Studio, a suite of products designed specifically for Windows developers to create, debug and optimise applications for multicore processors. The tools will help software architects, developers and innovators to meet the challenges of programming for multicore processors.
The suite will assist developers in achieving the two most [...]

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Intel Corp. plans to release its next-generation performance-mainstream microprocessors code-named Lynnfield in September this year, which is considerably later compared to the original schedule. The delay is believed to be a result of the global financial slump.
Intel originally planned to release its Core i5 processors (Lynnfield) in July ’09 and ramp up its production by [...]

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Rambus has announced a set of new and existing interconnect technologies it says will meet the needs of main memory in 2011 and beyond. It hopes the industry adopts the techniques as part of a pending DDR4 DRAM standard.
The concepts are promising, but a history of intellectual property disputes clouds the road to adopting them. [...]

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In the first post of this series of resources to interesting tutorials and articles on parallel computing, we linked to Blaise Barney’s tutorial. Today, we provide a link to an introduction to parallel programming and MapReduce programming model.
This tutorial covers the basics of parallel programming and the MapReduce programming model. The pre-requisites are significant programming [...]

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