by Michael Cooney, NetworkWorld
Microsoft researchers are experimenting with a programmable, low-cost prototype switch they say could help support cloud or other network-delivered services.
Called ServerSwitch, the package integrates a high performance, programmable ASIC switching chip with a fully programmable multicore commodity server and control software designed to handle data center network traffic more efficiently than [...]

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AMD today announced immediate availability of the new AMD Embedded G-Series processor, the world’s first and only Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) for embedded systems. The AMD Embedded G-Series, based on AMD Fusion technology, delivers a complete, full-featured embedded platform and incorporates the new low-power, x86 CPU based on the “Bobcat” core with a world-class DirectX® [...]

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Freescale Semiconductor is finding innovative ways to stop “vampire” energy loss, the loss of power that occurs when an AC adapter is plugged into an electrical outlet but isn’t charging a device. Freescale’s new Watt Saver technology automatically eliminates no-load power consumption for AC adaptors, potentially providing substantial energy savings over existing manual versions. In [...]

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Cavium Networks announced today that it has joined the Multicore Association (MCA), an industry-wide initiative to drive standardization and promote interoperability among providers and users of multicore processor hardware and software. In addition, the Multicore Association, a global non-profit organization focused on developing standards that help speed time-to-market for products involving multicore implementations, announced the [...]

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CUDA Toolkit 3.2 Production Release Features New and Improved Math Libraries
and Up To 30X Faster Performance than Latest MKL
Santa Clara, CA – November 17, 2010 – Today NVIDIA announced the availability of the CUDA Toolkit 3.2 production release, which provides significant performance increases, new math libraries and advanced cluster management features for developers creating next-generation [...]

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by Mark Raby
Samsung has its Galaxy S, Motorola has the Droid, HTC has the Evo, and now it’s time for LG to step up its game. And boy, is it rising to the occasion.
According to leaked information obtained by Engadget, LG is working on a massively powerful Android phone - so powerful that it has [...]

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The supercomputing community understands how critical it is to tightly integrate hardware and software, particularly with today’s continued march to multi-core, scale out supercomputing platforms. It’s not just hardware differentiated by raw performance that moves this performance-oriented market; its software tools including compilers, debuggers and libraries that are key mechanisms for creating computing environments [...]

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LSI Corp. has added a new Power PC processor and fast embedded DRAM cores to its library, claiming demand for custom silicon is on the rise in its core networking and storage markets. The company also is leveraging a 10 Gbit Ethernet core licensed from startup Teranetics and 40 and 28nm process technology from foundry [...]

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Marvell Technology said today that it’s figured out a way to deliver the first-ever quad-core ARM-based application processor for cell phones and other mobile devices. More cores equals more performance, of course, and Marvell says its quad-core ARM chips will deliver “gigahertz-plus” performance.
Currently Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset is the leader in ARM-based processors for phones, with [...]

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Although we have a few years before the next-generation of gaming consoles make their way into the market, Sony is stepping up its research for PlayStation 4 to better entice developers. According to Kotaku, Sony is looking to leave the Cell architecture for a more open and workable architecture. Supposedly developers are having issues tapping [...]

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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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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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Intel Corp. is still exploring the future use of 3-D devices based on through-silicon vias (TSVs), but the company said that it has still not found the right application or “product intercept” for the technology.
Right now, chip makers are shipping limited 3-D devices based on TSVs, mainly CMOS image sensors, MEMS, and, to some degree, [...]

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As part of a company-wide goal of reaching sustained exascale performance by the end of the next decade, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the launch of its Exascale Research Initiative at the Cray Executive Forum Europe currently taking place in Frankfurt, Germany. This research initiative will explore new ideas and technologies [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
The Hybrid Multicore Consortium is on a mission that perhaps all of computing - on the desktop and in the data center - will one day embark on: making hybrid computing architectures as easy to program and use as monolithic platforms have been.
There is a growing consensus - but by no means [...]

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Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, today celebrates its 20th anniversary of design, manufacture and supply of multiprocessor systems. Thousands of systems have been shipped to customers across the world delivering hundreds of millions of gates and billions of MIPS processing performance. By consistently pushing the [...]

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Microsoft is making news at the Supercomputing 2009 (SC 09) conference in Portland, Oregon, and not merely for the free cocktails and flight simulator drawing attendees to its booth. It has announced the availability of betas for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and distributed Microsoft Office Excel 2010 for the cluster.
According to Vince Mendillo, Microsoft’s [...]

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Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation today have agreed to jointly develop High Performance Computing (HPC) system technologies that will push the boundaries of supercomputing performance. NEC will bring these technologies to market in future supercomputers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor. NEC’s expertise in this field coupled with the Intel Xeon processor’s outstanding performance and [...]

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Silicon foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) is still having yield issues with its 40-nm process, according to analysts.
TSMC’s 40-nm yield problems surfaced earlier this year, but the company claimed it largely resolved the problem. However, during a conference call on Thursday, graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. discussed 40-nm capacity and yield constraints [...]

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Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited today announced that it has formed a relationship with Microsoft to address the growing High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel computing segment. Wipro will enable HPC customers to migrate to Windows HPC Server 2008 and parallelism on the Windows platform by offering services for application [...]

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