By James Truchard, National Instruments
Throughout history, lots of important and crucial innovation has happened during economic hard times and recession. Let’s take a look back at the greatest recession of all time–the Great Depression. Two major engineering inventions came out of those very bleak times, Scotch Tape and the fluorescent light bulb. Hewlett Packard was [...]

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In this three part series, Dr. Algosa Vrancic and Jeff Meisel presents findings that demonstrate how a novel approach with Intel hardware and software technology is allowing for real-time high-performance computing (HPC) in order to solve engineering problems with multi-core processors that were not possible only five years ago.
* Part 1 is a review of [...]

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ARC International (St Albans, England) is to lay off 35 employees and close several of its locations in a major restructuring that sees the licensor of multimedia IP cores reduced to 115 direct staff, excluding its Adaptive Chips joint venture in India. The company also revealed it is readying a new processing range that will [...]

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The Defense Department wants to take supercomputing to the next level by funding the development of a new breed of supercomputers that will be smarter and faster and yet smaller and require much less power than today’s massive machines.
DOD officials believe such computers will be necessary to make sense of the avalanche of data that [...]

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IBM today announced the public availability of Milepost GCC, the world’s first open source machine learning compiler. The compiler intelligently optimizes applications, translating directly into shorter software development times and bigger performance gains. Initial IBM experiments conducted on IBM System p servers achieved an average 18 percent performance improvement on embedded-application benchmarks.
In many organizations, software [...]

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The latest AMD OpteronTM 1000 Series processor, codenamed “Suzuka”, was launched in the shadow of its 6-core bigger brother, the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor codenamed “Istanbul.”
The AMD Opteron 1000 Series processor is designed for applications that are driven by cost or power concerns more than scalability. In the past, this meant a single core [...]

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Rambus, a technology licensing companies specialising in high-speed memory architectures, has demonstrated its XDR memory system running at data rates up to 7.2 Gbps. The demonstration comprised memory-manufacturer Elpida’s recently announced 1 Gbit XDR DRAM device and an XIO memory controller transmitting realistic data patterns.
Elpida claims the XIO memory controller is up to 3.5 times [...]

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Along with our grand release of Cilk++ v.1.1 we are including a new product to help you visualize application performance: Cilkview. Cilkview runs an application binary and generates performance data on sections you specify. It combines this data with performance estimates generated by the work/span calculator and produces a graph of the results.
Cilkview runs [...]

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Penguin Computing today announced that the University of Delaware Global Computing Laboratory has deployed the university’s largest supercomputer, code-named “Geronimo”, based on a custom GPGPU design utilizing NVIDIA Tesla GPU computing technology coupled with Intel 5400 series processors.
The cluster, funded by the University in conjunction with the NVIDIA University Partnership Program, will be used to [...]

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Following an active panel on DDR3 DRAM, last week’s Denali Memcon offered up a second panel topic: low-power memory design. That’s a wide enough topic to allow for a range of discussions, and the panelists–Mostafa Abdulla of Numonyx, Roger Isaac of Silicon Image, Areski Maklouf from ST-Ericsson, and Howard Sussman of Etron—ranged all over it.
In [...]

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Here is a chat session that occurred on June 18th at the EE Times Multicore Virtual Conference. There were 35 people in attendance. Richard Nass did some very light editing to make it more readable.
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by Gaston Hillar
“Testing an application prepared to run concurrent code can become a nightmare for old-fashioned testing platforms. Multicore testing requires new techniques, new expertise and new hardware. For example, you cannot guarantee a parallelized application’s accuracy testing it on computers with single core microprocessors.
One of the most frustrating experiences with multicore [...]

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Quantum computing has the potential to easily crack current cryptography systems, simulate chemical and nanochemical quantum systems, and speed up the search for solutions of certain types of math problems called NP Complete problems. Many have raced to create the world’s first quantum processor.
In 2007 D-Wave, a Canadian firm, claimed to have created the [...]

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“This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you’ll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, [...]

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Last week, TechInsights hosted its first virtual event since 2002 focused on multicore processors which attracted more than 3,500 registrants. The virtual event, “Multicore is Coming: Are You Ready” brought together the design engineering community from over 90 countries as well as leading technology vendors to demonstrate products, view live presentations and virtually meet potential [...]

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Arthur Cole spoke with Jarrod Siket, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Netronome.
To explain the concept of network flow processing, Siket says, “As today’s data center and network converge to form a unified computing environment, requirements such as deep packet inspection, security processing, support for multi-core processors and virtualization, increased performance and green computing [...]

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by Mark Hermeling, Senior Product Manager, Wind River Systems
Multicore processors (processors with multiple processing cores) are being considered in more embedded designs. There are in general two drivers that are bringing people to multicore: performance and/or consolidation.
The performance driver is simple. Many devices need the best performance in the smallest package with the lowest [...]

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Wind River introduced its standards-based Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.1.1 with extended support for Freescale, Intel and RMI processors. Wind River On-Chip Debugging is a development tools solution that includes Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging, a collection of software tools based on the Eclipse framework; Wind River ICE 2, a multicore-capable JTAG debug unit; [...]

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By Jens Wiegand (Wind River Systems, Inc.)
The world of medical electronics is shifting fundamentally. Equipment designs have traditionally lasted 20 years, with years of heritage and testing behind each design. Now more innovation is demanded, with new features and new versions being developed much faster, based on digital systems. More focus is being put on [...]

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Throwing more AIBs (add-in graphics boards) into a PC doesn’t result in commensurate increase in performance. Adding in a second AIB usually only ups performance by around 50 per cent (or slightly more on selected apps). Furthermore, load balancing remains the greatest challenge and makes scaling improvements complex.
ATI and Nvidia have come up with their [...]

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