Intel has unveiled a multicore supercomputing processor based in part on technology from Larrabee, the codename for an advanced graphics chip that was placed on hold late last year.
The new product, codenamed Knights Corner, is based on Intel’s Many Integrated Core architecture. The processor will scale to more than 50 processing cores and will be [...]

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By Richard Gerber and Andrew Binstock
Parallel programming makes use of threads to enable two or more operations to proceed in parallel. The entire concept of parallel programming centers on the design, development, and deployment of threads within an application and the coordination between threads and their respective operations. This article examines how to break up [...]

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The High Performance Computing market is a small but profitable one. Corporations and research institutions are willing to pay a premium if their research and modeling can be sped up using new technologies.
One of the more recent innovations has been the use of General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU). By using stream processing to [...]

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A new Intel Threading Challenge Programming Contest has started on Monday, 31 May. The initial phase will have two problems, with a prize for winning each. A second phase will launch in August with four problems and the chance to win a grand prize for overall performance.
This year Intel is trying something new: 2 [...]

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by By Addicam V.Sanjay and Prashant Paliwal, Intel Corporation
[Part 1 begins with an overview of the ground conditions for the case study, and with a decision-making flow chart for moving from the ARM to Intel Atom Microarchitecture.]
The next few sections give some example solutions based on cable modem functionality. Generic terms like upstream packets, downstream [...]

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by Addicam V.Sanjay and Prashant Paliwal, Intel Corporation
Intel’s move into embedded processors
Innovation in low-power, high-performance processors led to the birth of the Intel Atom processor, a low-power and relatively high-performance processor that revolutionized the computing industry powering the low-cost laptops called “netbooks” and announced Intel’s entry into embedded markets. The strong software ecosystem around established [...]

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Intel Corp. has said it plans to offer many-core processors targeting applications in high performance computing. The first product, codenamed “Knights Corner,” will be implemented on Intel’s 22-nm manufacturing process and integrate more than 50 processors, the company said.
Intel is classifying these many-core x86 processors as being examples the Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. Intel [...]

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By Rob Farber
Using Vertex Buffer Objects with CUDA and OpenGL
In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 16 and Part 17 of this article series, Rob discussed new features in the CUDA Toolkit 3.0 release that can make day-to-day development tasks easier, less error prone, and more consistent. Essentially expanded, consistent coverage appears to have been [...]

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CAPS is pleased to announce the availability of an OpenCL code generator within the just released 2.3 version of its HMPP directive-based hybrid compiler. Also, the CUDA back-end generator has been enhanced with Fermi capabilities and this new release brings support for more native compilers with Intel ifort/icc, GNU gcc/gfortran and PGI pgcc/pgfort compilers, enabling [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
We’ve all been wondering exactly what Intel would do with various multicore x64 processors that had been designed as co-processors to accelerate graphics and other applications with lots of number-crunching. The answer, as Intel explained at the International Super Computing conference in Hamburg, Germany this week, is simple: Replace lots of standard [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
With the International Super Computing conference underway this week, the Top 500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is out, and the bi-annual is just starting to be transformed by the advent of cheap flops embodied in graphics co-processing engines from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.
While the 1.76 petaflops “Jaguar” Opteron [...]

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