Acceleware® Corp., a leading developer of high performance computing applications, today announced a partnership with Crosslight Software to deliver acceleration for thin-film solar cell and image pixel sensor simulations. APSYS™, Crosslight’s 2/3D electrical and electromagnetics simulation tool for semiconductor design, combined with Acceleware’s acceleration solution for the finite difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm now delivers [...]

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By Richard Gerber, Aart J.C. Bik, Kevin Smith and Xinmin Tian
Parallelization using threads on multiple logical processors is an attractive and effective way to optimize software. As technologies to simulate multiple processors (such as Hyper Threading) and processors containing multiple cores become the standard for even consumer level computing, the importance of parallelization becomes apparent.
To [...]

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December 2nd,2009
Location: Zurich
In this half day seminar you will learn strategies and techniques for speeding up your Matlab and Simulink applications. This will include tips on how to optimize the performance of your Matlab code or your Simulink models and it will show how to use Matlab tools to take advantage of multicore machines and [...]

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Buried beneath all the hype of Cloud Computing, multicore processing, and GPUs, FPGAs have not had much lip-service as of late, at least as far as life sciences applications go. But the folks over at Pico Computing have just announced a 5,000X speedup of a DNA sequence analysis and dot plot algorithm using an FPGA [...]

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by James C. Phillips and John E. Stone, ACM Queue
Computer simulation has become an integral part of the study of the structure and function of biological molecules. For years, parallel computers have been used to conduct these computationally demanding simulations and to analyze their results. These simulations function as a “computational microscope,” allowing the scientist [...]

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by Shay Gueron and Michael E. Kounavis
Message confidentiality and integrity are key to the security of applications, operating systems, and the network infrastructure of the Internet in the future. As a result, improving the performance and security of encryption and authentication has significant benefits for today’s computer platforms. In this article we describe new tools [...]

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Simmetrix Inc., a leading provider of component software for simulation-based design and CAD/CAE integration, today announced Simulation Modeling Suite support of extended capabilities in the area of parallel mesh generation.
Increasing mesh requirements for simulation models have resulted in a need for mesh generation to better take advantage of advancing computing environments. These computing [...]

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Catamount N-Way (CNW) Lightweight Kernel, developed at Sandia National Laboratories wins this year’s R&D 100 awards. This leverages hardware capabilities of multicore processors to deliver significant improvements in data access performance for parallel computing applications. CNW provides enhanced data access capabilities beyond other equivalent operating systems by employing a new technique that targets memory bandwidth, [...]

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Infoglide Software and Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) today announced agreement on a joint go-to-market strategy based on combining Infoglide’s recent release of Identity Resolution Engine(TM) (IRE) 2.2 with Pervasive DataRush.
“IRE 2.2 will be a big leap forward, and combining it with Pervasive DataRush layers our leading identity resolution software atop the fastest multi-processing software platform [...]

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At the RMI “Performance 2009” Conference, RMI Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance processors for communication and media rich applications, announced today a design and performance breakthrough across its volume production multi-core multi-threaded XLR® and XLS® Processor families. This breakthrough allows the processor families to achieve processing speeds up to 1.5 GHz for enterprise and [...]

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IBM today announced the public availability of Milepost GCC, the world’s first open source machine learning compiler. The compiler intelligently optimizes applications, translating directly into shorter software development times and bigger performance gains. Initial IBM experiments conducted on IBM System p servers achieved an average 18 percent performance improvement on embedded-application benchmarks.
In many organizations, software [...]

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By Jens Wiegand (Wind River Systems, Inc.)
The world of medical electronics is shifting fundamentally. Equipment designs have traditionally lasted 20 years, with years of heritage and testing behind each design. Now more innovation is demanded, with new features and new versions being developed much faster, based on digital systems. More focus is being put on [...]

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Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance, embedded computing solutions for image, sensor, and signal processing applications, announced the availability of two new software offerings for multicore application development: the MultiCore Plus(R) (MCP) Pro Edition software environment, and the MultiCore MathPack library bundle.
Based on open standards, the MCP Pro Edition features a [...]

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Delcam, the world’s leading specialist supplier of CAM software, has issued a free guide to the use of computers with parallel processing technology in CNC programming. The white paper is based on Delcam’s research into the use of the latest computer technology in the CAM environment. It aims to help users separate the facts from [...]

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The design of the SonicWall ES7500 provides a case study of how multicore processors can provide a big win–if you are prepared to crank out a lot of low-level parallel programming software.
SonicWall started in 2003 with an idea for a network appliance that could scan traffic at gigabit/second rates for a complex set of viruses, [...]

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National Instruments today announced the release of a new embedded vision system that gives manufacturing engineers and system integrators the ability to build high-speed real-time machine vision systems for applications such as sorting products, verifying assembly and inspecting packaging. The NI EVS-1464RT Embedded Vision System is a high-performance, multicore controller capable of processing images from [...]

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According to TABB Group’s new IT-centric research published today, “Hardware Acceleration: Traders and Teraflops,” hardware acceleration is the hybrid car of trading systems. “Choosing financial-services hardware today often feels like having to choose between driving a Corvette or driving a Prius,” says Kevin McPartland, senior analyst at TABB and author of the report. For most [...]

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Freescale Semiconductor announced the availability of Linux-ready embedded software that provides security and networking functionality tailored for its multi-core, PowerPC-based QorIQ and PowerQUICC system-on-chips (SoCs). The “production-ready, application-level” Vortiqa software provides a base platform for developing firewall, IPSec-VPN, IPS, anti-virus, and anti-spam software, says the company.
Initially offered in four versions, for service provider, enterprise, small [...]

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Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, announced today that the firm has optimized its Quantifi software suite for Intel multi-core technology.
This new development enables faster calculations and increased scalability without additional cost by leveraging the power of modern multi-core CPUs. “We recognize that in today’s environment, clients [...]

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Freescale Semiconductor has announced a set of applications modules for its embedded multicore processors in an effort to reduce the amount of parallel software its OEM customers need to develop. The move marks a significant step beyond the relatively low level code chip makers routinely supply.
Silicon vendors have shifted to multicore designs to boost processor [...]

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