Global software and services company Enea recently launched Enea OSE Multicore Edition. This product incorporates a one-of-a-kind kernel structure that brings together the benefits engrained in both the old fashioned Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) and mitigates the negatives of both programming models. The company claims it helps developers of innovative [...]

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Freescale Semiconductor has beefed up the range of power and performance options available for its QorIQ family of multicore platforms with the introduction of the QorIQ P4040 processor. A four-core version of Freescale’s flagship P4080 processor, the new device delivers low-power solutions for applications requiring optimal performance in a sub-15W typical power envelope. Pin and [...]

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Researchers have developed a ‘hybrid microchip’ that could advance electronics beyond the limits of Moore’s Law. According to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years, leading to an exponential improvement in electronics. However, as devices get smaller, it is increasingly difficult for manufacturers to continue the trend on [...]

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Processor chip company Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has submitted details to the Khronos graphics industry group that it states show that its ATI graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture is compatible with OpenCL.
AMD said it is awaiting certification from Khronos, the industry body that was founded in 2000 to promote standard for graphics and [...]

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by John West
AMD has launched its Fiorano server platform, consisting of chipsets that, for the first time, use only company-branded silicon. The three chipsets announced this week are aimed to serve a range of market segments.
Up until now if you cracked open the hood of your favorite six-core AMD server you’d find the familiar logo [...]

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Super Micro Computer, Inc. today launched a full range of A+ Server, SuperBlade(R) and workstation platforms optimized for Six-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors and based on the new AMD SR5690 and SP5100 chipsets. This comprehensive new line of Supermicro solutions boosts performance with PCI-Express 2.0 to double I/O throughput and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) [...]

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Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. today announced availability of the Mellanox ConnectX®-2 EN 40G converged network adapter card, the world’s first 40 Gigabit Ethernet adapter solution. ConnectX-2 EN 40G enables data centers to maximize the utilization of the latest multi-core processors, achieve unprecedented Ethernet server and storage connectivity, and advance LAN and SAN unification efforts. Mellanox’s 40 [...]

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Market research company In-Stat (Scottsdale, Ariz.) is offering a 14-page “white paper” on the fight between processor companies ARM and Intel on the mobile Internet battlefield.
Among the findings discussed here is that processor market for devices with Internet connectivity have a potential for growth with an overall compounded annual growth rate of 22.3 percent through [...]

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Rambus Presentation
Tuesday, September 22, 11:15 a.m. PDT
“Memory Architectures for Multi-core Computing in Next-generation PCs and Smartphones”
Presented by Craig Hampel, Rambus Fellow
Moscone Center West, Room 2005
Mr. Hampel will address memory architecture optimizations that can support the many threads and workloads handled by multi-core processors in next-generation PCs and Smartphones. As part of his talk, Mr. Hampel [...]

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Just a couple of days away from the rumored release of AMD’s next-generation DirectX 11-capable GPUs, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker has announced today that it has submitted its OpenCL GPU implementation for certification by the Khronos Working Group. According to the chip maker, this brings its products closer to delivering support for OpenCL, using [...]

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IBM unveiled a 32 nm SOI embedded DRAM, and will provide details at the upcoming IEDM in December. Gary Patton, vice president for IBM’s SRDC, said the SOI eDRAM has latency and cycle times of <2 ns, uses 4× less standby power, and has “up to a 1000x lower soft-error rate (SER), better power savings, [...]

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Recore Systems BV, a fabless chip company formed late in 2005 by researchers of reconfigurable technology at the University of Twente at Enschede, has raised $3 million in funding and plans to use to expand sales and marketing as it enters the market for digital radio and TV receiver chips.
Recore’s receiver chip targets consumer electronics [...]

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Posted by John Fruehe
“I am constantly asked about our different products, both existing and future. Clarification of what the AMD Opteron TM processor products are and where they are targeted is a common request, so I thought it might be a good idea to put it all down in one place; a “cheat sheet” for [...]

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Special Issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing on “Data Intensive Computing” invites original unpublished research articles that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and development of data intensive computing, functionalities and capabilities that will benefit many applications.
Important Dates
Paper Submission : January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection : May 31, 2010
Final Version of [...]

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By Antone Gonsalves
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a faster processor without having to shrink the size of its circuitry, a technique used by today’s chip makers.
MIT’s advancement in chip-making, which involves combining two semiconductor materials into a single hybrid microchip, is important because today’s manufacturers will eventually hit a limit on [...]

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Freescale Semiconductor is expanding the range of power and performance options available for its QorIQ family of multicore platforms with the introduction of the QorIQ P4040 processor.
A four-core version of Freescale’s flagship P4080 processor, the new device delivers low-power solutions for applications requiring optimal performance in a sub-15 W typical power envelope. Pin and code [...]

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NextComputing, manufacturers of high-performance, portable workstations and servers, announces the NextStream, a high-density stream computing server. In a compact 2U rackmount form factor, the NextStream is best suited to mission-critical applications requiring high-throughput data streaming and/or a mix of traditional CPU processing and GPU parallel processing. NextComputing’s modular “FleXtreme” architecture maximizes the system’s processing power [...]

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A developer reports seeing a 50% jump in real world performance after adding initial support for two new Snow Leopard technologies: Grand Central Dispatch and Open CL.
As reported by the French site HardMac, MovieGate developer Christophe Ducommun found his app jumped from 104 frames per second encoding under Leopard to 150 fps performance on the [...]

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Are security concerns putting a damper on the enthusiastic acceptance of cloud computing?
Hopefully not – it appears that cloud computing is a solution that has arrived on the scene just in time. IT infrastructures, whether in the government, academia or the enterprise, are beginning to fray badly. A few warning signs: In distributed computing [...]

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Here is a review of some concurrency tips from Joshua Bloch, Brian Goetz and others.
Prefer immutable objects/data
Immutable objects do not change after construction. Immutable objects are simpler, safer, require no locks, and are thread safe. To make an object immutable don’t provide setters/mutator methods, make fields private final, and prevent subclassing. If immutability is [...]

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