By Asaf Shelly
We have been dealing with parallel computing for some while now. Some of the ideas we had at the start proved to be wrong while others are only becoming relevant in the near future. No doubt about it, parallel computing was pushed and forced into the mainstream of computing just as Object Oriented [...]

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by Ian Clarke
Fundamentals
The fundamental concept behind Swarm is that we should “move the computation, not the data”. The Swarm prototype is a simple stack-based language, akin to a primitive version of the Java bytecode interpreter. This article provides the proof of concept to be quick to implement, while demonstrating that the concept could work for [...]

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By Rob Farber
In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 16 of this article series, Rob discussed the CUDA 3.0 release. CUDA 3.0 is a major revision number increment release that adds enhancements valuable to all CUDA developers to make day-to-day development tasks easier, less error prone, and more consistent.
As mentioned in the previous article, expanded [...]

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by David Kleidermacher
Vrtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although it remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, computer scientists have long understood many of the applications of virtualization, including the ability to run distinct and legacy operating systems on a single hardware platform.
At the start of the [...]

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by Stacey Higginbotham
Intel said on Tuesday night (Apr 13th) that it would release a dual-core Atom chip during the second quarter. Adding more cores to the Atom chip should boost the chip’s performance and make the chipmaker better able to compete with ARM-based processors already inside handsets, which have already begun closing the performance gap [...]

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by Tomm Aldridge
When: A spring day in 2015
Where: A big box home improvement store in any community
Project: Finally getting around to connecting up your personal energy system. Now that you have converted to solid state lighting and hyper efficient appliances you want to tie them all into your own intelligent personal microgrid for the ultimate [...]

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B Labs Ltd. is a startup company founded by a former ARM engineer that is developing embedded virtualization solutions. B Labs consists of a team of software engineers specializing in embedded kernel design, open-source software and the ARM architecture.
The company’s first product, the Codezero microkernel embedded hypervisor provides a method for bundling and migrating legacy [...]

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Intel has announced that is developing a system-on-chip for embedded applications based around its Atom processor core. However, it appears the SoC will be of a fixed design with a PCI Express bus interface to which system-level customers can attach their own or third-party chips.
Similarly it appears that Intel will manufacture the system-chip internally rather [...]

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By Dan Nystedt
The latest family of Intel microprocessors, code-named Sandy Bridge, will be in production by the end of this year, while desktops and laptops with the chips will likely be on world markets in early 2011.
The initial versions of the chips will be for desktop and laptop computers, not servers, said David Perlmutter, head [...]

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Kicking off a global launch consisting of more than 150 developer-focused events, Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. The company also announced that Silverlight 4 will release to Web (RTW) later in the week. Together, these technologies simplify the entire development process, enabling developers to target new [...]

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By Anuradha Shukla
6WIND, a provider of commercial packet processing solutions has announced the most recent and most powerful version of the 6WINDGate software for multicore processors.
With the new 6WINDGate Version 3, developers of next generation networking equipment can reduce the time to market for multicore processors while increasing the stability and features of [...]

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By Stephen Olsen
Predicting trends is difficult even by the most connected industry experts, but one trend that’s easy to spot is the widespread acceptance of multicore SoC. This is happening for a number of reasons.
First, it’s been years since the workstation first adopted the multicore processor architecture to solve such issues as increasing performance and [...]

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by Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Supercomputing has been a major part of my education and career, from the late 1960s when I was doing atomic and molecular calculations as a physics doctorate student at the University of Chicago, to the early 1990s when I was general manager of IBM’s SP family of parallel supercomputers.
The performance advances of [...]

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RenderStream announces VDAC (Visual and Data Analysis Cluster) which uses the power of up to 16 GPUs to breeze through computational problems like those found in GPU based rendering, oil and gas, medical research, augmented reality and mobile visualization enhancement.
Since 2006 RenderStream’s founders have been involved in GPU-based high performance computing. We recognized numerous markets [...]

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by Stacey Higginbotham
Intel, with its x86 architecture, has owned the corporate computing market for decades, but Barry Evans, CEO of Austin, Texas-based systems startup Smooth-Stone, thinks it’s time for a change. Smooth-Stone, which Evans co-founded in 2008, is using ARM-based processors to create a box for the data center. Its goal isn’t a slight reduction [...]

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Where: Your Desktop
When: Apr 15th, 2010 @ 10:00 am PT/ 1:00 pm ET
Introduction:
* Keen about the Agile Development?
* Can’t make out the Agile challenges?
* Stranger to the Agile best practices?
Here’s is the one-step way out to your question marks!
Here is an interesting webinar on – “Distributed Agile Development - what works and why” hosted by [...]

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NVIDIA is to release a new open beta of Parallel Nsight™ with several new features for Microsoft Visual Studio users who are taking advantage of graphics processing units (GPU) for general purpose programming.
Parallel Nsight is powerful plug-in that allows Microsoft Visual Studio programmers to develop for both GPUs and CPUs within a single development environment. [...]

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By Nate Ralph, PC World
AMD has released a bit more information on their upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 processor (codenamed Thuban), revealing their take on automated overclocking, dubbed Turbo Core. PCWorld has covered Intel’s Turbo Boost feature at length, and AMD’s Turbo Core follows many of the same principles.
The general idea behind Turbo Core [...]

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by Agam Shah, IDG News Service
Intel will ship computers with an experimental 48-core processor to researchers by the end of the second quarter as the company tries to reshape its future chips.
Limited quantities of the processor will be sent primarily to academic institutions, said Sean Koehl, technology evangelist with Intel Labs, during an event in [...]

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Google’s Chrome browser draws heavily on the WebKit browser engine project led chiefly by Apple, but now WebKit is adopting one Chrome idea: separation between some computing processes.
Apple programmer Anders Carlsson announced the move, an interface called WebKit2, in a WebKit mailing list posting Thursday. “WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a [...]

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