Texas Instruments is betting that a more powerful cell phone, one that uses identical computing cores working in parallel inside the application processor, a setup it calls symmetric multicore processing, will be here as soon as 2011. Such phones, which will be built with multicore ARM-based chips, will allow for faster processing on mobile phones [...]

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The need for parallel programming is being driven by advances in multicore architectures. This rapid and accelerating technology trend is creating an array of HPC systems that range from dual and quad core systems to supercomputers and clusters with tens, hundreds and thousands of cores. These platforms perform at teraflop and petaflop speeds on terabytes [...]

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By Dr. Aljosa Vrancic and Jeff Meisel, National Instruments
Introduction to Real-Time Concepts
Because tasks that require acceleration are so computationally intensive, your typical HPC problem could not traditionally be solved with a normal desktop computer, let alone an embedded system. However, disruptive technologies such as multi-core processors enable more and more HPC applications to now be [...]

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by Arthur Cole
It’s a fairly well-known secret in server circles that while most of the market is seeing hard times, the high-end side is proving to be rather resistant to economic turmoil. That’s not to say that the market hasn’t seen some erosion in the past year, but it’s a far cry from the 20 [...]

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Single-core processing has reached its performance ceiling. In response, hardware manufacturers have developed new multi-core (or multi-processor) devices to accomplish the speed gains to which the world had grown accustomed. But this paradigm of multi-threaded software development adds a new wrinkle of complexity; concurrency defects such as race conditions and deadlocks are software defect types [...]

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The Portland Group®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and leading supplier of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), today announced an agreement with NVIDIA under which the two companies plan to develop new Fortran language support for CUDA GPUs.
The NVIDIA® CUDA™ architecture allows developers to offload computationally intensive kernels to the massively parallel GPU. Through function [...]

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RNA networks, the leader in memory virtualization software, today announced it has extended its Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) product family with the release of RNAcache. MVP transforms server memory into a shared network resource. RNAcache allows servers to leverage RNA’s unlimited pool of memory by loading entire working datasets into a single shared, virtual [...]

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In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 12 of this article series on CUDA, some of the paradigm changing features of the latest CUDA Toolkit 2.2 release were discussed. This article resumes the discussion of “texture memory” which was begun in Part 11 of this series. In addition, this installment includes information on the new [...]

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The Portland Group today announced the general availability of the PGI Release 9.0 line of high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. PGI Release 9.0 is the first general release to include support for the high-level PGI Accelerator programming model on x64 processor-based Linux systems incorporating NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs.
The [...]

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The Operating Systems
No matter the version, Mac OS always had a great advantage over any other desktop operating system. It knows exactly the underlying hardware because it is designed for running on Mac’s certified hardware only. You can run it on different hardware, at your own risk. The same company develops the computers and [...]

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Recognizing that developers these days must program for multicore processors, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday is releasing an upgrade to its native development tools package geared to this new responsibility. Sun, though, would not comment on what Oracle’s impending acquisition plans might mean for the product, called Sun Studio 12 Update 1, thus leaving its fate [...]

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VinChip Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has announced the availability of the VinRZ5110 32-bit RISC processor core, which it claims is the first 32-but processor to be developed in India. It has a DSP-centric instruction set and low gate count for low power consumption, the company said.
VinChip, which has a design center in Chennai, India, [...]

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PLDI is a forum where researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners exchange information on the latest practical and experimental work in the design and implementation of programming languages. PLDI 2009 was held on the historic campus of Trinity College Dublin in the heart of Dublin, Ireland.
There were three interesting tutorials presented at the conference.
The Concurrent [...]

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Much more than most companies, Intel’s success depends on the technology that will arrive in its field years hence. As a result, the company has more than 1,000 researchers beavering away to gauge and develop that technology.
At its Intel Research Day at the Computer History Museum here Thursday, the company touted a wide range of [...]

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The Multicore Association(TM), a global non-profit organization focused on developing standards that help speed time to market for products that involve multicore processor implementations, today announced that Huawei is the newest member of its executive board.
“As a leader in the network telecoms market, Huawei makes a notable addition to our membership, with products and solutions [...]

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The Open Virtual Platform (OVP) initiative (www.OVPworld.org), founded by Imperas with the help of 18 companies and individuals from the embedded systems user community, processor intellectual property developers, electronic design automation, service providers and academia, has celebrated its one year anniversary. OVP technology provides solutions to the problems embedded software developers incur when modeling the [...]

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Delcam, the world’s leading specialist supplier of CAM software, has issued a free guide to the use of computers with parallel processing technology in CNC programming. The white paper is based on Delcam’s research into the use of the latest computer technology in the CAM environment. It aims to help users separate the facts from [...]

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The design of the SonicWall ES7500 provides a case study of how multicore processors can provide a big win–if you are prepared to crank out a lot of low-level parallel programming software.
SonicWall started in 2003 with an idea for a network appliance that could scan traffic at gigabit/second rates for a complex set of viruses, [...]

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ARM has announced a new processor licensing deal with television manufacturer LG, which will see the company’s sets deliver a range of internet services.
LG will use the British chip designer’s ARM11 MPCore multicore processor and Mali GPU family in its next-generation sets. ARM claims the deal will allow LG to offer a “Web 2.0″ experience [...]

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5th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2009, took place in Dresden (Germany) - a dynamic city with lovely surroundings - from 3rd June until 5th June 2009. The IWOMP 2009 is an annual series of international workshops dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects focusing on parallel programming with OpenMP. The workshop serves [...]

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