NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs have been getting quite a share of positive responses lately. Not only can they be used to create supercomputers that completely overshadow other clusters in the area of power efficiency, but they are capable of massive parallel processing tasks that make them quite suited to heavy computing operations. More recently, the well-known [...]

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by Jake McTigue
The first part of this series talks a great deal about native support for NUMA in vSphere on enabled Opteron and Nehalem processor platforms. NUMA is a strong technology in and of itself, but it really starts to shine when teamed with other supporting technologies. This post covers the details of integrating next [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
IT shops buy current products, but they always have their eyes out one or two generations to assure themselves they aren’t buying into a dead-end product. Which is why makers of chips and other components that go into systems as well as system makers themselves are forced to talk about the future [...]

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By SN Padmanabhan, MindTree
The electronics industry witnessed unprecedented growth over the past few decades, driving the adoption of smaller technology nodes on a larger scale. In addition, globalization is poised to play a greater role in the electronics segment in the coming years and Asia will be the cradle for such changes.
The EDA segment is [...]

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by Glenn Perry
“The combination of embedded Linux and Mentor’s Nucleus RTOS is really exciting for us, particularly for multi-OS on multicore systems.
We see multiple OS deployment taking off in Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) systems. The OSs can be sectioned off so the general-purpose OS handles control plane activities, such as user interface and application management. Meanwhile, [...]

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by Jake McTigue
Non Uniform Memory Access or NUMA is becoming increasingly commonplace on the next generation of very powerful servers. This is nothing new in the AMD product line; Opteron is a NUMA architecture and the associated performance boost of the Opteron specification catapulted AMD ahead of curve in the mid 2000’s. Intel has been [...]

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The process of creating a standard is only one piece of a larger life cycle that spans from pre-standardization investigation and planning through post-publication activities, including testing, promotion, education and maintenance.
An effective standards life cycle process is built on three key elements: efficient collaboration, facilitation of consensus and world-class partnering. The collaborative environment must be [...]

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DDR memory technology is the most common choice of memory devices found almost everywhere from computers, transportations, home entertainment systems to medical devices and consumer products. With the wide spread of the DDR usage, the new development and designs are pushing the requirement for higher performance and more power-efficient DDR memory devices.
New DDR technologies such [...]

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ARM Ltd’s competitors included a host of IP processor companies such as MIPS, ARC and Tensilica but the field of serious processor competition has dramatically narrowed to, ARM vs. Intel Corp. ARM has also substantially expanded its processor core design sockets—both to high-end and low-end markets. On one hand, the company has bravely marched into [...]

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Boffins in Switzerland have warned that increasingly powerful computer processors are set to guzzle the entire world electricity supply by the year 2100. They say that only 3D myria-core chips can save the day. “Industry’s data centres already consume as much as 2% of available electricity,” says John R Thome of the École Polytechnique Fédérale [...]

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Freescale Semiconductor is offering the QorIQ P1012/P1021 family, with the QUICC Engine multiprotocol technology, delivering high-performance, low-power migration path to all-IP environments for customers using legacy multiprotocol interfaces.
Most embedded multicore processors integrate general-purpose CPUs not optimized for data-plane tasks, thus requiring more or faster CPUs to deliver the same level of performance for multiprotocol processing. [...]

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Eco-friendly 3D microchips, being developed by a clutch of cutting-edge research labs, are likely to boost computing power 10-fold, consuming negligible energy. They are being developed jointly by IBM Research Lab, EPFL and ETH Zurich, the twin Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology.
The project, under the leadership of EPFL’s John R. Thome’s (Lausanne), aims to develop [...]

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NVIDIA’s next generation CUDA architecture, code named “Fermi” is the most advanced GPU computing architecture ever built. Join us for a live webinar to learn about the new Tesla GPU Compute solutions built on Fermi and the dramatic performance capabilities they offer customers who are tackling the most difficult, compute-intensive problems. In addition [...]

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By Junko Yoshida
“As recently as five years ago, ARM’s competitors included a host of IP processor companies such as MIPS, ARC and Tensilica. Now, like it or not, the field of serious processor competition has dramatically narrowed to, well, ARM vs. Intel Corp. ARM has also substantially expanded its processor core design sockets — both [...]

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Shannon -jj Behrens posts his presentation slides from his talk at Py Web SF, A Python & Web Technology meet up in the heart of San Francisco.
Slides [pdf]

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Scientists are developing 3D microprocessors cooled from the inside through channels as thin as a human hair filled with a liquid coolant. This method is currently being developed by researchers from the EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) and its sister organisation ETH Zurich to boost the performance of future computers. The CMOSAIC project, [...]

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Tomas Evensen
Multicore will eventually be commonplace for many categories of devices, delivering more processing power and lower energy consumption, while virtualization will provide partitioning capabilities on top of single and multicore processors. Mobile devices are already being tasked with handling graphics, videos, applications, and more. These demands will only continue to expand. Multicore and virtualization [...]

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Ralph Johnson, one of the four GoF authors, talks about the upcoming book “The Patterns for Parallel Programming”. He highlights the difficulties in dealing with discovering and writing down parallel programming patterns, how to choose and use such a pattern, and similarities with the initial Design Patterns book.
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By Verity Stob
Moore’s Law, I need hardly remind a top-notch industry professional like you, states that as the density of silicon circuitry doubles, the probability of you not being able to find some sensibly-priced extra memory to fit your old lappy approaches 1.0.
In recent times it has become generally admitted that, if this well-known observation [...]

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Intel Corp. is still exploring the future use of 3-D devices based on through-silicon vias (TSVs), but the company said that it has still not found the right application or “product intercept” for the technology.
Right now, chip makers are shipping limited 3-D devices based on TSVs, mainly CMOS image sensors, MEMS, and, to some degree, [...]

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