Accelerator V2, currently a preview build, is a .NET managed library easing the task of writing data-parallel programs executed on multi-core CPUs and GPUs.
A Microsoft Research project, Accelerator was started back in 2006 as a managed library, the first version being available in 2007. Initially it was written in C# and targeted at GPUs. In [...]

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Nvidia brushed off the technology lead that rival Advanced Micro Devices built by releasing the first graphics chips to support DirectX 11, saying the release only gives AMD a short-term advantage that won’t have a long-term effect on the graphics market.
The marginal advantage of beating Nvidia to market is overshadowed by wider changes in the [...]

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By Tony Smith
Nvidia looks set to announce its next-generation Tegra system-on-a-chip at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show early next year.
The chip maker hasn’t formally said as much, but its head of investor relations, Michael Mara, last week signposted CES as the venue for a major Tegra-related announcement. This week, the company is pre-briefing hacks about [...]

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NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs have been getting quite a share of positive responses lately. Not only can they be used to create supercomputers that completely overshadow other clusters in the area of power efficiency, but they are capable of massive parallel processing tasks that make them quite suited to heavy computing operations. More recently, the well-known [...]

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NVIDIA’s next generation CUDA architecture, code named “Fermi” is the most advanced GPU computing architecture ever built. Join us for a live webinar to learn about the new Tesla GPU Compute solutions built on Fermi and the dramatic performance capabilities they offer customers who are tackling the most difficult, compute-intensive problems. In addition [...]

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by Alexander Wolfe
For the last few days, I’ve been mulling over the top semiconductor stories of the year. Clearly, the settlement by Intel and AMD of their ongoing antitrust and patent/licensing disputes is the biggest business news. Picking the tech champ is tougher, because it’s not about where we’ve been in 2009, but rather where [...]

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by Michael J. Miller
Intel will continue to work on many of the concepts within Larrabee, because the overall directions of both the CPU and the GPU markets require it. As I see it, the two big trends in general processor designs are a push for much greater parallelism, particularly for high-end computing; and much more [...]

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As of December 4th (yesterday), the first Larrabee chip’s retail release has been canceled. This means that Intel will not be releasing a Larrabee video card or a Larrabee HPC/GPGPU compute part.
The Larrabee project itself has not been canceled however, and Intel is still hard at work developing their first entirely in-house discrete GPU. The [...]

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by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Will the GPU ever become the metric that we use to measure PCs with, replacing the GHz-centric and core-centric CPU? Why might this happen? Well, because increasingly software developers are looking to the GPU to take the load off the CPU. And with good reason, as the GPU absolutely excels at certain tasks, [...]

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Graphics core licensor Imagination Technologies Group PLC (Kings Langley, England) is preparing compilers that will be able to assign tasks across both graphics and general-purpose processing units. Imagination has had its own 32-bit Meta processor core on its books for most of this decade but it best known as a licensor of application-specific digital audio [...]

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By Nick Farrell
“THE AUSSIE Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has just knocked together a supercomputer that’s based around a cluster of graphics processing units (GPUs).
Using GPUs in this way gives the computer a processing processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size. The as yet unnamed CSIRO system is one of [...]

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AMD has introduced its long-awaited ATI Radeon HD 5970 (Hemlock) GPU. According to company spokesperson Devon Nekechuk, the 5970 features advanced Overdrive technology that allows gamers to easily unlock the card’s full overclocking potential.
“The number one important aspect of this card is the raw performance it offers,” Nekechuk told TG Daily. “The 5970 [...]

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AccelerEyes is pleased to announce the release of the HPC industry’s first GPU performance benchmark: Jacket GBENCH. GBENCH allows users to gauge the GPU performance of their computer relative to equivalent benchmarks obtained from a variety f other computers, including the CPU of the same computer. Benchmarks include six different tasks, common to [...]

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AccelerEyes today unveiled a new version of its Jacket software platform designed for multiple GPU systems. The new version of Jacket offers huge productivity gains to the hundreds of thousands of MATLAB® users worldwide who need to solve computationally intensive problems and desire to leverage the growing popularity, computation power, and energy efficiency of [...]

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Allinea Software today announced that it has made available a pre-release version of the Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) for the CUDA architecture to selected end-user customers. This software will be demonstrated live at SC09.
Following a successful collaboration with NVIDIA and the Commissariat Energie Atomique (CEA), Allinea Software has developed a version of DDT that offers [...]

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CAPS entreprise the industry leader in development tools for high performance applications is pleased to announce that it is working closely with the NVIDIA teams to make HMPP compiler fully support the new NVIDIA Fermi architecture.
“With several key features such as a true cache hierarchy, concurrent thread execution and ECC, Fermi brings real breakthrough [...]

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NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA™ processor architecture, codenamed “Fermi”. Designed from the ground-up for parallel computing, the NVIDIA® Tesla™ 20-series GPUs slash the cost of computing by delivering the same performance of a traditional CPU-based [...]

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The Portland Group®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, today announced that release 2010 of the PGI® line of high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows will be available on Tuesday, November 17. PGI 2010 is the first general release to include full support for the PGI Accelerator Programming model [...]

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by Brooke Crothers
Despite persistent rumors, Nvidia’s chief executive says the graphics chip supplier is not working on an Intel-compatible chip.
In an exclusive interview with CNET Thursday, Brook Crothers asked CEO Jen-Hsun Huang about the possibility of Nvidia coming up with its own x86 (Intel-compatible) chip technology, after the company reported strong third-quarter earnings. A [...]

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There’ve been reports circulating around the internet that NVIDIA’s next-generation flagship Fermi-G300 GPU won’t be commercially available until next year, and NVIDIA has just officially confirmed about this.
NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during quarterly conference call that the company would only ramp up production of Fermi in the company’s first quarter of fiscal year 2011 [...]

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