Continuous Computing, a company deploying architected systems comprised of telecom platforms and Trillium software, announced its collaboration with Cavium Networks, a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, wireless, and storage applications.
The combination of Continuous Computing’s Trillium LTE software and Cavium’s Octeon multi-core processor family, which boasts a 16-core MIPS64 architecture [...]

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Cavium Networks (NASDAQ : CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking and wireless applications today announced that multiple industry leading wireless infrastructure solutions using its market leading OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 processors are being showcased at the 2009 Mobile World Congress (MWC) show in Barcelona, Spain. The OCTEON Wireless Processors [...]

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Synopsys, Inc. , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today unveiled two key improvements to its PrimeTime® static timing analysis (STA) suite that deliver a dramatic boost to designer productivity. The latest release includes a flexible multicore processing technology that makes more effective use of both single-core and multicore [...]

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Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that the company’s Olympus-SoC(TM) place-and-route system has won the 2009 DesignVision Award in the IC Design Tools category, presented last week at DesignCon 2009. The DesignVision Awards program celebrates the premier design tools and products judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the semiconductor industry. The winners were [...]

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Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) today released new native SystemC transaction level modeling (TLM)-2.0 technology to use with OVP CPU models that run to the speed of one billion (1B) instructions per second (1,000 MIPS).
These models, developed by Imperas, are free to download and use, and are available through the www.OVPworld.org site. “These are the fastest [...]

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MIPS Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that its MIPS32® 1004K™ Coherent Processing System (CPS), the industry’s first embedded multi-threaded, multiprocessor licensable IP core, was named a finalist in the prestigious annual Innovation Awards from EDN Magazine. [...]

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Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced the immediate availability of VxWorks version 6.7 with significant enhancements that enable device manufacturers to address critical business issues by exploiting the capabilities of the latest multicore processors.
VxWorks 6.7 allows system designers to select the optimal multicore design configuration, asymmetric multiprocessing [...]

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Acceleware Corp. (TSX-V: AXE) a leading developer of high performance computing applications, today announced that Key Seismic Solutions Ltd., a Calgary based seismic data processing company, has chosen Acceleware’s seismic acceleration solution to dramatically speed-up processing using Kirchhoff Pre-Stack Time Migration (KTM) algorithms and lower costs in their data center. The Acceleware solution integrates seamlessly [...]

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Acumem, a provider of intelligent performance optimization software for single- and multi-core environments today announces that it now has full support for AMD’s new quad-core AMD Opteron™ processors in its Acumem ThreadSpotter and Acumem SlowSpotter™ performance optimization tools.
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REvolution Computing, a leading provider of open source predictive analytics solutions, today announced that it has made a public version of its commercial grade REvolution R program available for download from its Web site. REvolution R is REvolution Computing’s distribution of the popular R statistical software, optimized for use in commercial environments.
With the latest release [...]

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NVIDIA has announced the availability of version 2.1 beta of its CUDA toolkit and SDK. This is the latest version of the C-compiler and software development tools for accessing the massively parallel CUDA compute architecture of NVIDIA GPUs. In response to overwhelming demand from the developer community, this latest version of the CUDA software suite [...]

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Tilera(R) Corporation today announced the availability of its TILEPro36(TM) processor, featuring Tilera’s remarkably low power consumption at a breakthrough performance and price point. Consuming less than 10 watts in power-sensitive applications, the TILEPro36 enables system designers to achieve impressive system performance and still stay within the cooling and power budgets demanded for new embedded systems.
With [...]

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Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), the leading global provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband internet devices, today introduced its roadmap for supporting advanced mobile chipsets built on ARM® Cortex™-A8 and Cortex-A9 MPCore™ multicore processors. OK Labs technology targets use cases that include both Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) on dual, tri- and quad-core [...]

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Intel Corporation has completed the development phase of its next-generation manufacturing process that further shrinks chip circuitry to 32 nanometers (a billionth of a meter). The company is on track for production readiness of this future generation using even more energy-efficient, denser and higher performing transistors in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Intel will provide a [...]

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Tilcon Software Ltd., a leading provider of Graphical User Interface (GUI) solutions for embedded applications, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Version 5.5.5 of its Interface Development Suite (IDS) for VxWorks and Wind River Linux. User interface designers and application developers can now take advantage of Tilcon’s full-featured GUI Builder to quickly realize [...]

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The Khronos™ Group today announced the ratification and public release of the OpenCL™ 1.0 specification, the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) greatly improves speed and responsiveness for a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories from [...]

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NVIDIA Corporation today announced its full support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from the Khronos Group. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a new compute API that allows developers to harness the massive parallel computing power of the GPU. The addition of OpenCL is another major milestone in the GPU revolution that gives NVIDIA [...]

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At SC08 Conference, NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture was recognized in multiple categories, a clear indicator that GPU Computing technology is making a real and significant impact in the HPC industry.
* The Best Student Paper Award went to Vasily Volkov and James W. Demmel of the University of California, Berkeley for “Benchmarking GPUs to Tune Dense Linear [...]

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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has launched the Cadence® Encounter® Digital Implementation System, a configurable digital implementation platform delivering incredible scalability with complete support for parallel processing across the design flow. The system also brings an ultra-efficient new core memory architecture delivering higher-performance, higher-capacity design closure for single CPU operations. With this new system, designers are [...]

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Plurality Ltd. today announced the industry’s first complete silicon Intellectual Property (IP) solution for its HyperCore(TM) processor, the market’s most powerful, space-saving and energy-efficient 64-core shared-memory processing engine. Plurality, a developer of advanced manycore processor solutions, has made the HyperCore processor IP available to help developers rapidly integrate the general-purpose accelerator into system-on-chip (SoC) designs. [...]

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