by John E. West, for HPCwire
Earlier this month Intel announced it was helping lead a parallel programming experience for high school students. The three-day “Clubhouse Parallel Universe Boot-Camp” was held at Brooklyn Technical High School (BTHS). This idea is consistent with Intel’s overall drive to help develop the expertise that applications developers — and [...]

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Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have developed a microprocessor based on the ARC600 32-bit configurable architecture from ARC International plc. (St. Albans, England). A working prototype has been demonstrated in the laboratory.
The microprocessor has been named EnCore and it is touted as being capable of reducing power consumption of portable gadgets such as MP3 [...]

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In late June 2009, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Universal Parallel Computing Research Center Summer School for Multicore Programming team produced a top notch event that immersed all of the participants in the fundamental of parallel programing.
UPCRC Co-Director Marc Snir kicked it off with an Introduction to Parallelism. His broad overview touched on many [...]

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Cilk Arts teamed up with MIT’s Professional Development Program on a 2-day workshop focused on multicore programming. Here is the video of second day’s lecture.
The first two lectures can be watched at Lecture 1 and Lecture 2.
The third lecture covered:
* Implementation of Cilk Loops
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The Intel Academic Community announced the launch of its center of excellence for faculty training at M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), Bangalore, India.
This Center of Excellence at the MSRIT campus which is fully equipped with latest Intel hardware and software aims to train 300 faculties from 155 institutes of Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU) [...]

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Cilk Arts teamed up with MIT’s Professional Development Program on a 2-day workshop focused on multicore programming. Here is the video of second day’s lecture.
The second lecture covered:
* What is Parallelism?
* Scheduling Theory
* Cilk++ Runtime System
* A Chess Lesson

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Slides

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The Sun HPC Software Programming Challenge 2009 is designed to promote the use of the Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris by students by having them compete to design and implement the most scalable and best-performing implementation of a common parallel algorithm.
The Sun HPC Software Programming Challenge is open to students at any [...]

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Help is on the way for programmers trying to wrestle greater performance from multicore processors, but the big leaps forward in parallel programming are still in the labs, according to a keynoter at the Multicore Virtual Conference.
Processor vendors are planning support for thread-level speculation and transactional memory as two ways assist developers in getting more [...]

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Here is a video, where Professor Wen-mei Hwu of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explains Common Strategies for Paralelism.

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The academy in charge of advancing China’s homegrown microprocessors has licensed the MIPS chip architecture, burying an old controversy over its use of parts of the MIPS instruction set. China’s Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) has licensed the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures for development of its Godson chips, MIPS Technologies said Monday.
The Godson chip [...]

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Ilya Mirman of Cilk Arts posts a blog that provides links to slide of their 2-day course (6 lectures and 4 hands-on labs) at MIT.

Welcome slides
1 - The Multicore Software Challenge
2 - Parallelism and Performance
3 - Analysis of Multithreaded Algorithms
Welcome Back slides
4 - Issues in Parallelization
5 - Nondeterministic Programming
6 - Hyperobjects

There will be another [...]

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Microprocessors are marching into a multicore future to keep delivering performance gains without frying in their own heat. But mainstream software has yet to find its path to using the new parallelism.
Proprietary programming approaches are gaining traction in a handful of applications. It could take a decade or more, however, for the brunt of the [...]

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TechEd has been a venue for Microsoft to make big product and platform announcements, but it is ultimately a place where developers come to learn. Two sessions—on data privacy and multicore programming—were especially popular with attendees.
The broad availability of many-core processors is changing application architecture, but parallel programming remains challenging for many developers, Microsoft said. [...]

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If you have a laptop, you’ve been there: While the manufacturer promised hours of available battery time, you find that after you’ve been working on the laptop for a short time, the screen goes black. Battery dead.
Improving battery life is the pursuit of many scientists around the world, but computer scientists at the McCormick School [...]

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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE, Intel says it will channel $12 million into a visual computing institute (VCI) in Saarland University in Germany, over the next five years.
Chipzilla’s cash splash-out is the largest amount the firm has ever spent on university collaboration, showing how important advanced graphics and visual computing technologies are becoming to the CPU [...]

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The Uppsala Programming for Multicore Research Center (UPMARC) will conduct a summer school on multicore computing, in Fagerudd[External link], Enköping, Sweden, on June 15-17, 2009.
The objective of the school is to offer foundational tutorials accompanied by a selection of exiting new emerging technologies and industrial applications in the areas covered by UPMARC, all given by [...]

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Building on results from initial projects with academic partners, including The University of Texas at Austin, the Pervasive DataRush team said it plans to expand its academic outreach to allow qualifying universities and not-for-profit research groups access to an academic license and the opportunity to explore joint development opportunities with Pervasive DataRush and Innovation Labs [...]

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On the 1st of May, 1969, seven ex-Fairchild employees, including Jerry Sanders, Ed Turney, John Carey, Sven Simonsen, Jack Gifford, Frank Botte, Jim Giles and Larry Stenger founded Advanced Micro Devices. Initially a manufacturer of random access memory, simplistic logic chips and clones of Intel Corp.’s microprocessors, AMD is now the company that ships innovative [...]

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as part of its Architecture Aware Compiler Environment Program, has awarded Rice University $16 million to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance of virtually any application running on any microprocessor.
The PACE project — short for “platform-aware compilation environment” — centers on ubiquitous computer [...]

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This article (by Sramana Mitra for Forbes) is not directly related to multicore, but an interesting one about innovation and requirement of research relationships among business, government, and universities. This article also has a link to an interview (on August 20, 2007) with Anant Agarwal, one of the pioneers of multi-core processor technologies. [Interview with [...]

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