EE Times has compiled a list of emerging technologies that we think will be worth watching out for in 2010.
Recessions are the times of change when R&D investments get pushed to the fore. It is well known that when markets and prosperity return they never return in exactly the same form that they went away. [...]

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Mitrionics, Inc, the technology leader in FPGA-based hybrid computing, today announced its experimental work on a new proof-of-concept compiler for portable parallel programming. Early scalability results will be presented in a talk at SC09 by Mitrionics’ Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer Stefan Möhl. The proof-of-concept compiler is a test-bench to prove that a Mitrion-C [...]

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Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, today celebrates its 20th anniversary of design, manufacture and supply of multiprocessor systems. Thousands of systems have been shipped to customers across the world delivering hundreds of millions of gates and billions of MIPS processing performance. By consistently pushing the [...]

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AccelerEyes is pleased to announce the release of the HPC industry’s first GPU performance benchmark: Jacket GBENCH. GBENCH allows users to gauge the GPU performance of their computer relative to equivalent benchmarks obtained from a variety f other computers, including the CPU of the same computer. Benchmarks include six different tasks, common to [...]

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AccelerEyes today unveiled a new version of its Jacket software platform designed for multiple GPU systems. The new version of Jacket offers huge productivity gains to the hundreds of thousands of MATLAB® users worldwide who need to solve computationally intensive problems and desire to leverage the growing popularity, computation power, and energy efficiency of [...]

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By Paul Krill
“Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, plans to open up compilers for the languages and add capabilities for asynchronous programming and immutability.
Discussed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles today, the blueprint for the two languages will feature compilers as [...]

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Allinea Software today announced that it has made available a pre-release version of the Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) for the CUDA architecture to selected end-user customers. This software will be demonstrated live at SC09.
Following a successful collaboration with NVIDIA and the Commissariat Energie Atomique (CEA), Allinea Software has developed a version of DDT that offers [...]

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By Brian Lam and Don Nguyen
“Our iMac review included a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo chip inside, but we received the top-of-the-line iMac housing the more promising 2.8GHz Core i7 processor. Do more cores make up for lower clock speeds? Yes. Often 2X to 3X.
The Basic Differences in Chips :
First off, I should note that the [...]

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by Mark Hermeling, Wind River
There are some key lessons to keep in mind about developing products for the embedded market using multicore processing and virtualisation. Here are 10 of them.
1. Think about your partitioning options
2. Think about your operating system choices
3. Consider consolidation
4. Think about the future
5. Consider parallelism
6. Keep resources in mind
7. Don’t [...]

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There’s a big paradox in modern computing: the machinery is getting more powerful, but software isn’t running any faster. And that’s causing businesses a lot of grief. They’re spending lots of money on expensive hardware but squeezing marginal productivity out of it.
But a Montreal startup founded by supercomputing veterans says it has found an answer. [...]

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By James Reinders (Intel)
Available today: a way to test scaling using cloud-computing, Intel has released this web-based tool to help with parallel programming. The Intel® Parallel Universe Portal will take your Windows (32 bit) application, run it through the scaling analysis engine in Intel Parallel Studio, and give back a report about the performance running [...]

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Cloud computing will become mainstream and stop being a 5-letter word
There is no doubt that cloud computing is at the peak of the hype cycle right now. And yet, when you talk to real customers, there is genuine interest in using the principles of cloud computing - virtualization, pay-as-you-go, and the ability to extend the [...]

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EnSilica boosts its front-end IC design services with the launch of new eSi-RISC configurable processor cores, offering a scalable architecture for low-cost feature-rich embedded applications.
The eSi-1600, eSi-3200 and eSi-3250 processor cores are available immediately for deployment as part of EnSilica’s full specification-to-silicon design service, through a number of leading foundries and an FPGA integration service [...]

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by Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech
“I suppose I could start this article off with a tirade on how frustrating Adobe Flash is. But, I believe the phrase “preaching to the choir” would apply. I’ve got a two socket, 16-thread, 3GHz, Nehalem Mac Pro as my main workstation. I have an EVGA GeForce GTX 285 in there. [...]

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Simplifies Access to Large Data Sets from MATLAB and Speeds Up Statistics and Communications Algorithms
The MathWorks today announced a new version of Parallel Computing Toolbox that now provides an improved distributed array construct to enable MATLAB users to directly access from a MATLAB session data that is stored on multicore computers or computer clusters. In [...]

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NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) and its ecosystem partners will deliver, over the next few months, the industry’s broadest set of software releases to developers using GPU Computing in their work.
These updates feature major releases across a broad spectrum of GPU Computing development languages, tools and libraries. Included are updates from NVIDIA for its CUDA™ C compiler, [...]

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Intel Corporation unveiled Intel® Parallel Universe Portal, a cloud-based scaling analysis tool to help with parallel programming. Scaling, the ability to utilize more cores automatically, is a hot topic for software developers because of multicore processors. Powered by Intel® Parallel Studio, this Intel analysis service provides valuable information for parallel programs designed to run under the Windows [...]

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Microsoft is making news at the Supercomputing 2009 (SC 09) conference in Portland, Oregon, and not merely for the free cocktails and flight simulator drawing attendees to its booth. It has announced the availability of betas for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and distributed Microsoft Office Excel 2010 for the cluster.
According to Vince Mendillo, Microsoft’s [...]

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CAPS entreprise the industry leader in development tools for high performance applications is pleased to announce that it is working closely with the NVIDIA teams to make HMPP compiler fully support the new NVIDIA Fermi architecture.
“With several key features such as a true cache hierarchy, concurrent thread execution and ECC, Fermi brings real breakthrough [...]

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NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA™ processor architecture, codenamed “Fermi”. Designed from the ground-up for parallel computing, the NVIDIA® Tesla™ 20-series GPUs slash the cost of computing by delivering the same performance of a traditional CPU-based [...]

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