Google is the modern data poster-child for parallel computing. It’s famous for splintering enormous calculations into tiny pieces that can then be processed across an epic network of machines. But when it comes to spreading workloads across multi-core processors, the company has called for a certain amount of restraint.
With a paper (PDF) soon to be [...]

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Here is a video presentation on parallel programming on Intel architectures using Parallel Studio by Geoff Lowney, an Intel Fellow.
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by Neil McAllister
Multicore chips achieve performance gains through parallelism, but parallelism in software doesn’t come for free. Before an application can take advantage of today’s multiprocessor architectures, developers must build support for parallel task and data management at the lowest levels. Unfortunately, many of today’s developers learned their craft at a time when this level [...]

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By Margaret Lewis
Traditionally, the way we think about software development is that you have a CPU (central processing unit) and a GPU (graphics processing unit), and each is good at handling certain sets of tasks. The x86 CPU is good at executing a sequence of stored instructions, and even has the ability to handle multiple [...]

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In this video, Chris Pederson shows the IE9 experience will look like with GPU-accelerated HTML5, JavaScript, and Direct 2D technology.

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IEBlog explains the full architecture of hardware acceleration of everything on every web page in addition to graphics acceleration.
Browsers can use hardware to accelerate none, some, or all of the steps in rendering an HTML pages. The diagram below illustrates the major steps in HTML page rendering in IE9.

Content Rendering. IE9 accelerates the first [...]

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By Arch Robison
Getting top performance out of modern processors requires both SIMD and thread parallelism. Intel Cilk Plus is an easy way to express both. The first blog in this series covered the SIMD part. This article explains the thread part.
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As outlined in the first blog, fork-join and SIMD parallelism can [...]

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by Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech
Zacate is AMD’s 18W APU aimed at the mainstream notebook market (~$500 notebooks). The APU features a pair of Bobcat cores and a Cedar-class AMD DX11 GPU. Spending some time with the physical Zacate package, it seems to have a single 64-bit DDR3 memory interface ala Atom. Unlike Atom however, [...]

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Wolfgang Gentzsch interviewes Dan Reed, who helps to drive Microsoft’s long-term technology vision and the associated policy engagement with governments and institutions around the world.
Wolfgang: You are our keynote speaker at the ISC Cloud Conference end of October in Frankfurt. Would you briefly summarize the key message you want to deliver?
Dan: I’d like [...]

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By James Reinders
This month, we introduced Intel Parallel Studio 2011. It is a very worthy successor to the original Intel Parallel Studio by expanding both on the tooling and the parallel programming models it offers.
On the tooling, we have the Intel Parallel Advisor tool. It is an exciting tool that is a joy to use [...]

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by Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech
Sandy Bridge is Intel’s 2011 performance mainstream architecture refresh. It won’t take the place of the 6-core Gulftown based Core i7 processors at the top of the charts, but it’ll occupy the competitive space below it. The value segments won’t see Sandy Bridge until 2012.
The first CPUs will ship very early [...]

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When back in December 2009, Intel announced it would be shelving the Larrabee microarchitecture as a consumer product, it didn’t actually say it offed Larrabee completely. No sir.
So how do you wipe the GPGPU egg off your face and turn it into a potential win for the company? Well, you keep working on it without [...]

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Intel’s Steve Smith Discusses Sandy Bridge - more IDF news available at http://www.intel.com/newsroom/idf

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linux.conf.au is a conference for free and open source software. In 2011 lca is going to be held in Brisbane, from the 24th - 29th January. The conference includes a miniconf on Multicore and Parallel Computing, organized by Nicolás Erdödy. The miniconf is inviting for Papers, Proposals, Presentations, Panels. The deadline for submissions is October [...]

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By Steve Wildstrom
Two of the hottest trends in information processing today are cloud computing and general purpose computing on GPUs. Both provide users with vast amounts of computing power, great flexibility, and very low costs compared to traditional solutions. Now they are coming together in what we can call CUDA in the cloud.
Cloud computing has [...]

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Unleash your productivity with Parallel Nsight (aka “Nexus”), NVIDIA’s new development environment for GPU Computing and graphics applications that use CUDA C, OpenCL, DirectCompute, Direct3D, or OpenGL.
Parallel Nsight introduces native GPU debugging and platform-wide performance analysis tools for both computing and graphics developers, fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008.
Use the powerful Nsight Debugger set breakpoints [...]

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Parallel Nsight is NVIDIA’s new Visual Studio integrated development environment for GPU Computing and graphics applications that use CUDA C, OpenCL, DirectCompute, Direct3D, or OpenGL.
This video shows how to use Parallel Nsight’s powerful graphics debugging features, including a state of the art frame debugger, a frame profiler with per-draw call bottleneck identification, hardware HLSL shader [...]

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By Rob Farber
CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 19 focuses on the new Parallel Nsight tool for Microsoft Visual Studio including: the thought that went into the design of the tool, how to install and configure the software, how to create a project from scratch, and provided a demonstration of the debugging capabilities provided in [...]

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The International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT) is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in parallel computing. As a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from the hardware and software areas, PACT brings together researchers and practitioners in parallel systems to present ground-breaking research related to parallel systems [...]

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By Ian King, BusinessWeek
Intel Corp., the world’s largest semiconductor maker, will show off its first chip design that has graphics capabilities built into the processor, stepping up a threat to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp.
Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini will demonstrate the product next week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, [...]

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