Multicore World 2013 conference is being held in New Zealand on 19 - 20th February 2013 at the Ilott Theatre and Civic Suites of the Wellington Town Hall. According to the conference website, the main goal of this conference is to provide CIOs, CTOs and software community leaders with the knowledge and connections they need, [...]

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Originally posted at https://www.xsede.org
Graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines who are interested in using parallel computers efficiently and productively are invited to register for a FREE online course sponsored by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE / xsede.org).
The online course is an adaptation of the class Applications of Parallel Computers taught by [...]

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by Walter Bright, Dr. Dobb’s
Composability or the ability to write highly reusable software using a data source → algorithm → data sink model is a feature that depends heavily on language support. New facilities in D now make this possible.
The goal of writing reusable software is as old as programming, and is so well ingrained [...]

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NVIDIA made available the NVIDIA® CUDA® 5 production release, a powerful new version of the world’s most pervasive parallel computing platform and programming model for accelerating scientific and engineering applications on GPUs. It can be downloaded for free from the NVIDIA Developer Zone website.

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by Joseph Stanfield
It is well understood that a server with a “balanced” memory configuration yields the best performance for your servers (See Memory Selection Guidelines for HPC and 11G PowerEdge Servers). Balanced implies that all memory channels of the server are populated equally and with identical memory modules (DIMMS). But there are certain situations where [...]

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by Lawrence Latif, The Inquirer
Intel is interested in following ARM’s “Big Little” design, though operating system support is needed.
As Intel tries to make its way in the smartphone and tablet markets with Medfield and its upcoming Clover Trail processors, the firm is looking at ARM’s Big Little paradigm for its low power processors.

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Published on Vision Systems blog
Developers of image processing software can accelerate their applications by taking advantage of the latest multi-core processors. But with several software frameworks now available that enable them to do so, many programmers might be a little confused as to which approach might be the most effective.
Hoping to shed some light on [...]

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Multicore World is the global conference to discuss all things multicore at peer level. Multicore World 2013 features various guest speakers. The list of speakers include:
Poul-Henning Kamp (FreeBSD, Varnish. Denmark)
Prof. Ian Foster (Director, Argonne/University of Chicago Computation Institute. USA)
Paul McKenney (IBM DE & Linux CTO, Linaro Steering Committee. USA)
Tim Mattson (Intel Principal Engineer, Khronos OpenCL [...]

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by Steve Scott, Nvidia, on Apr 3 2012
The recent news and industry reaction regarding Intel’s forthcoming “Many Integrated Core” (MIC) accelerator has been interesting to watch. It appears Intel, like NVIDIA and AMD, has now concluded that hybrid architectures are the proper response to the growing power constraints of high performance computing.
While I agree with [...]

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by Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Register
The details are still a bit sketchy, but Intel is committed to get the rest of the “Ivy Bridge” family of Xeon processors out the door next year, is getting ready to roll out new Itanium and Atom processors for servers this year, and is working on future Xeon E3 [...]

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by Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Register
Earlier this week, ahead of the kickoff of the Intel Developer Forum, cheeky AMD launched its next generation of microservers sporting both Intel and AMD chips and a revamped SM15000 chassis that links storage arrays directly into the system “Freedom” interconnect fabric at the heart of the SeaMicro system it [...]

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by Joel Hruska, Extreme Tech
Intel often uses the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) as a platform to discuss its long-term vision for computing as well as more practical business initiatives. This year, the company has discussed the shrinking energy cost of computation as well as a point when it believes the energy required for “meaningful compute” [...]

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Motion estimation in an image sequence has many potential uses such as detecting and tracking moving objects. However, one potential drawback to its use is the computation time needed to run the motion estimation software.

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by Michael Feldman, HPCWire
AMD looks like it’s getting set to jump back into the GPU computing arena with chips a-blazin. A couple of weeks ago, the company signed up HPC industry-heavyweight John Gustafson as the chief architect for the Graphics Business Unit, what used to known as ATI. Gustafson will essentially fill the CTO role [...]

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by Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider
A report on on Saturday reveals Apple’s new A6 processor is actually the company’s first attempt at designing a custom ARMv7 core, possibly debunking earlier claims that the silicon was using ARM’s A9 or A15 Cortex designs.
When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 on Wednesday, not much divulged in the way of [...]

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by Alex Handy, SDTimes
Intel will announce an update to its Parallel Studio development tools at next week’s Developer Forum. The update will include debugging support for Java and more reliable floating-point processes.
Intel’s Parallel Studio XE 2013 includes a host of improvements aimed at saving developers time when building and troubleshooting multi-threaded and parallel applications. [...]

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by Dave Wilson, Senior Editor, Vision Systems Design
Engineers at Vector Fabrics (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) have built a tool to analyze and optimize source code for multi-core processors. As a test case, they have optimized an OpenCV image processing algorithm written in C++ and made the results available as an Android App.
OpenCV is a widely known [...]

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by Sanjay Challa, National Instruments
Embedded systems consist of hardware and software components designed to perform a specific function, and often have real-time and/or reliability constraints which go far beyond everyday computing.
To meet these demands on a hardware level, traditional embedded systems generally incorporate microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSPs), and/or field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). With [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCWire
Chipmaker Adapteva is sampling its 4th-generation multicore processor, known as Epiphany-IV. The 64-core chip delivers a peak performance of 100 gigaflops and draws just two watts of power, yielding a stunning 50 gigaflops/watt. The engineering samples were manufactured by GLOBALFOUNDRIES on its latest 28nm process technology.

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NVIDIA announced availability of the NVIDIA® CUDA® 5 release candidate, the latest version of the industry’s leading parallel computing platform and programming model.

Publicly available as a free download from the NVIDIA Developer Zone website, the CUDA 5 release candidate provides a solid platform for developers to evaluate new capabilities before the CUDA 5 production release is [...]

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