by David Ott (Intel)
1. The Basics of NUMA
NUMA, or Non-Uniform Memory Access, is a shared memory architecture that describes the placement of main memory modules with respect to processors in a multiprocessor system. Perhaps the best way to understand NUMA is to compare it with its cousin UMA, or Uniform Memory Access.
In the UMA memory [...]

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By Arnon Peleg
This new version is conformant with OpenCL™ 1.1 specification, and includes a desired alpha preview of SDK implementation for Linux* operating systems.
This conversation piece might be new to some of you, so let me say a couple of words about OpenCL. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is the first open, royalty-free standard for general-purpose [...]

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by IntelPR
* Intel announces a major technical breakthrough and historic innovation in microprocessors: the world’s first 3-D transistors, called Tri-Gate, in a production technology.
* The transition to 3-D Tri-Gate transistors sustains the pace of technology advancement, fueling Moore’s Law for years to come.
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by Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech
Earlier today Intel announced that its 22nm process would not use conventional planar transistors but rather be the first time Intel is using 3D Tri-Gate transistors. This is a huge announcement that fuels Intel’s leadership in the mobile/desktop/server CPU space and makes it a lot more attractive in the SoC space, [...]

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Citing lack of support from new OS partner Microsoft, Nokia may defer its planned shift to dual-core smartphone processors originally scheduled this year.
A forum at the the Multicore Expo in San Jose, California revealed that to date, three companies have already started shipping dual-core mobile processors and as many as eight will do the same [...]

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by Gareth Halfacree
While chip giants ARM, Intel, and AMD battle for control of your smartphones and PCs, a small company in Massachusetts called Adapteva is starting a revolution: many-core processors that offer a significant performance boost over anything currently on the market. We chat to its founder Andreas Olofsson to find out what’s going [...]

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KGPU is a GPU computing framework for the Linux kernel. It allows Linux kernel to call CUDA programs running on GPUs directly. The motivation is to augment operating systems with GPUs so that not only userspace applications but also the operating system itself can benefit from GPU acceleration. It can also free the CPU from [...]

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By James Reinders, Intel
I’ve been chatting with a small group of dedicated fans of Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) in New Zealand. They’ve been looking at adding parallelism, using TBB, to WordPress, PHP, HipHop, Perl, and other open source projects. They have published their code and some interesting results. They have [...]

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NetLogic Microsystems Inc. unveils the newest member of its XLP processor family, the XLP316 processor, that features a quad-core, 16-issue, 16-threaded, superscalar processor architecture at up to 2.0GHz with out-of-order execution and L3 cache designed for the most demanding control-plane processing requirements in communications, networking, storage and security applications.

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By Dave Valentine
Getting Started with Parallelism
At SIGCSE 2009 in Chattanooga I attended an Intel presentation on Parallel Computing. The Intel representative, Michael Wrinn, said to the group, “Intel is not going back to a single core processor. The world has gone parallel and you better start teaching it!” He then wagged his finger at [...]

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by Rick Merritt
The wall on the horizon in multicore programming is getting closer, according to a panel of experts at the Multicore Expo here. Without new tools and methods, programmers will not be able to continue to reap significant benefits from tomorrow’s increasingly parallel chips.
Processor designers switched from pushing frequency to delivering multicore designs [...]

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By Sean Hollister, engadget
By the end of the year, it looks like Intel expects to ship five new solid state storage series in total — some of them even speedier than its current SSD 510 Series flagship. Engadget managed to obtain this leaked roadmap listing the potential additions, and we’re afraid to ask how much [...]

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Adapteva, a privately-held semiconductor technology startup, today announced its flagship EpiphanyTM microprocessor architecture IP (intellectual property). The company’s technology is unprecedented in its ability to scale to thousands of parallel processors on a single chip, connected through a high-bandwidth on-chip network, with each processor capable of executing separate and independent programs. The resulting performance boost [...]

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by Robert A. Maddox, Gurbir Singh, and Robert J. Safranek, Intel Corporation
The architecture of the Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI), like many components in a computer system, is comprised of a number layers. Each of these layers performs a distinct function in controlling the logical operation of the Intel QPI. This article introduces the [...]

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Diego Rossinelli, Christian Conti and Petros Koumoutsakos, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Particle–mesh interpolations are fundamental operations for particle-in-cell codes, as implemented in vortex methods, plasma dynamics and electrostatics simulations. In these simulations, the mesh is used to solve the field equations and the gradients of the fields are used in order to advance [...]

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by Thomas Honold
In embedded systems design, many of us tend to write our software in C the way our “grandfathers” did, which was appropriate before we had to worry about ubiquitous connectivity and its security implications. Today, the programming methods of the past must be adapted to a world in which safety-critical design is [...]

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By Sheng Fu (Intel)
Ever finished parallelizing a code and discovered that the performance was not what you were expecting? I think that has happened to everyone. One of the tricks I’ve recently learned is that it is a good idea to start the code optimization by running Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE Lightweight Hotspots analysis, which [...]

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by Kristian Vättö
Last August in our Atom N550 article, we hinted that Intel will release their next generation Atom platform in mid-2011. As we mentioned in that article, the codename for this platform is “Cedar Trail”, and today we have some further details to share. Cedar Trail (and the Cedarview-D processors) won’t quite make [...]

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NVIDIA Launching Multiple GTCs in Beijing, Singapore, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and Other Regions; North American Flagship Event Shifted to Spring 2012
NVIDIA recently announced that it is expanding its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to address the increasing global demand for, and interest in, GPU computing to drive next-generation research and scientific discovery.

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At Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2011, AMD (NYSE: AMD) introduced the AMD Radeon™ E6760 embedded discrete graphics processor. Available now, the AMD Radeon E6760 GPU is the first of its kind to offer embedded system designers the combination of OpenCL™ support1 along with support for six independent displays.

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