Web search pioneer Yahoo officially released its source code for Hadoop, a parallel programming framework many see as the key ingredient for cloud computing services. The software could fuel a broad class of future Web-based applications, said an IBM executive at the second-annual Hadoop Summit.
Hadoop is an open source version of MapReduce, the set of [...]

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by Thomas Mailund
I’m working on a project where it looks like I could end up with hidden Markov models with hundreds if not thousands of states, and with transition matrices where all entries are non-zero. Since, for such models, the running time for just calculating the likelihood (not even optimising it) is O(m . [...]

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By Joab Jackson
“How do you find a bug in a program when that program runs on more than 200,000 processors?
As incredible as that scenario might sound, it is becoming a routine problem for the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), home of the 212,992-core BlueGene/L supercomputer. To help spot bugs, laboratory researchers, along [...]

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Title: Run MATLAB 10x-50x Faster using GPUs and Jacket Plug-in
Find out how the Jacket CUDA-plugin for NVIDIA’s GPUs accelerates MATLAB by 10x-50x for a range of applications like imaging, signal processing, life sciences, and bio-informatics.
Attend this webinar to learn about:
• The revolutionary high-performance CUDA architecture of NVIDIA GPUs
• Accelerating MATLAB [...]

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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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The EDA industry is gearing up for what may be its largest retooling ever – retrofitting or rewriting applications to run on next-generation multicore platforms. An inside look at how Cadence ported the Encounter Digital Implementation System (EDI) to parallel processing illustrates some of the challenges, solutions and benefits.
Richard Goering posts three interesting articles. Part [...]

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Apple is giving Snow Leopard, the next version of OS X, a proper unveiling today at WWDC. Here are all the details, as we get them. The biggest news? It’s only $29 to upgrade, and coming in September
Snow Leopard, otherwise known as OS X 10.6, was first announced at last year’s WWDC, and we got [...]

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posted by Ilya Mirman, Cilk Arts
Authors: Marc Moreno Maza and Yuzhen Xie
“In symbolic computation, dense polynomial multiplication is a fundamental operation akin to dense matrix multiplication in numerical computation. We report herein on a parallelization, in Cilk++, of dense polynomial multiplication based on multi-dimensional FFTs. Dense polynomial arithmetic is important for most computer algebra algorithms, [...]

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Pervasive Software announced early availability of its Pervasive DataRush Knowledge Discovery Platform for data mining and predictive analytics. The Pervasive DataRush team is engaged with prospective customers to validate use cases and productize its high-performance data mining and predictive analytics capabilities.
“The Pervasive DataRush Knowledge Discovery Platform is based on Pervasive DataRush, launched earlier this year, [...]

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Intel has revealed that Windows 7 features new and improved multi-threading, which will help to improve power consumption and battery life. Previous versions of Windows often swapped threads around cores, which prevented them from entering lower power states and caused cache thrashing as separate cores raced to grab data processed by others.
The Windows 7 kernel [...]

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NASA is ramping up a cloud computing initiative that could be used in support of its space missions and to give Earth-bound observers greater participation in the space program.An early version of NASA’s computing cloud, called Nebula, is already up and running.
Until now, NASA hasn’t said much about its plans for cloud computing. Chris [...]

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The availability of parallel programming libraries like Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) and Microsoft .NET* Task Parallel Library (TPL) have made it easier to develop applications for multi-core processors. While these libraries provide fine-grain control over parallelism, they still require detailed knowledge and techniques on parallel constructs to transform a sequential algorithm into parallel [...]

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LSI Corporation today announced real-time, on-demand, multimedia transcoding software for the award-winning family of LSI(TM) StarPro(R) multicore media processors that enables flexible, cost-effective solutions for any-to-any video communications and real-time collaboration through next-generation media gateways.
“Demand for high-definition video is growing rapidly, and it is critical to support services that provide high-quality video regardless of [...]

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IBM last week took the wraps off a technology developed by its research labs that it believes will raise the threshold for analysis of massive amounts of data in real time.Under development for six years through the IBM Research organization, System S is designed for what the company calls “perpetual analytics.”
Key to System S is [...]

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by Brent Justice
“CPUs are an important part of gaming, it is impossible currently to play a computer game without one no matter how much you are told these processors are becoming a diminishing portion of your gaming experience. We have recently seen the Infernal Engine scale gameplay physics, not effects physics, across 8 threads of [...]

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by Rosa M. Badia
With the objective of overcoming the three walls: the memory wall, the power wall and the ILP wall, the current trends in chip fabrication have led to placing more than one processor (from now on, core) in a chip. While manufacturers are now shipping chips with a few cores (at most 4-8 [...]

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New integrations, new scalability options and new data visualization options promise to bring TIBCO Spotfire 3.0 to a broader base of potential business intelligence consumers. Announced and released May 18, the 3.0 launch marks the latest in a series of major upgrades since Spotfire’s acquisition by TIBCO nearly two years ago.
In contrast to conventional [...]

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National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) today introduced NI TestStand 4.2, the latest version of the company’s test management software for developing test and validation systems. This version is designed to significantly reduce test development time and costs through enhanced integration with test modules written in almost any programming [...]

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Apple has been putting the finishing touches to the forthcoming Snow Leopard iteration of its OS X operating system. Last minute changes include optimisation of code for multi-core Macs. In a statement Apple told developers these will be the last programming-oriented changes ahead of the software’s release.
Apple said it has simplified the application programming interfaces [...]

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Smartphones are getting more and more advanced but there is a limit to what they can do with the amount of power that they currently have. The single-core processing units of today’s smartphones are working overtime these days to try to handle all of the needs of the phone itself while also offering web browsing [...]

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