Acceleware® Corp., a leading developer of high performance computing applications, today announced a partnership with Crosslight Software to deliver acceleration for thin-film solar cell and image pixel sensor simulations. APSYS™, Crosslight’s 2/3D electrical and electromagnetics simulation tool for semiconductor design, combined with Acceleware’s acceleration solution for the finite difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm now delivers [...]

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Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced a comprehensive software development and run-time management solution for embedded products based on the multicore Freescale QorIQ™ P2020 and P2010 communications processors. Components of the Green Hills Software development toolkit include the INTEGRITY® RTOS and INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization (ISV), optimizing C/C++ [...]

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CodePeer is a source code analysis tool that detects run-time and logic errors in Ada programs. Serving as an efficient and accurate code reviewer, CodePeer identifies constructs that are likely to lead to run-time errors such as buffer overflows, and it flags legal but suspect code typical of logic errors.
Going well beyond the capabilities of [...]

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Enea today announced the immediate availability of the Enea® Optima 2.2 Eclipse-based integrated development environment. Enea Optima 2.2 features new capabilities for rapidly developing complex embedded multicore applications including enhanced profiling, analysis and memory management.
“With the increasing complexity of modern multicore processors, the problem of distributing a software application across different cores to maximize the [...]

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By Brandon Hewitt
1. Instrumenting the application to output profiling data is just going to naturally add time. You have all this I/O as the application writes this runtime data to a file as it runs.
2. The compiler disables many optimizations when creating this instrumented application. Inlining for example, needs to be completely disabled if you’re [...]

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by Mario Hewardt
The Windows operating system is a preemptive and multithreaded operating system. Multithreading refers to the capability to run any number of threads concurrently. If the system is a single processor machine, Windows creates the illusion of concurrent thread execution by allowing each thread to run for a short period of time (known as [...]

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CoWare, Inc., the leading supplier of Electronic System Virtualization™ (ESV) software and services, and Tensilica, Inc., the leading provider of configurable dataplane processor cores (DPUs), announced they have collaborated to further enhance the integration of Tensilica’s processor models into the CoWare tools to support CoWare’s advanced functionality to ease software development on multi-core Tensilica-based SOC [...]

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Acumem, a provider of intelligent software for single- and multi-core environments, today announced the launch of its new Acumem ThreadSpotter 2010 product.
Acumem is continuing to quickly develop and improve its technology and making the improvements available to customer. At SuperComputing 2009 Acumem released Acumem ThreadSpotter 2010.
ThreadSpotter 2010 brings new analysis capabilities in the form [...]

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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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by Jake McTigue
The first part of this series talks a great deal about native support for NUMA in vSphere on enabled Opteron and Nehalem processor platforms. NUMA is a strong technology in and of itself, but it really starts to shine when teamed with other supporting technologies. This post covers the details of integrating next [...]

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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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Simplifies Access to Large Data Sets from MATLAB and Speeds Up Statistics and Communications Algorithms
The MathWorks today announced a new version of Parallel Computing Toolbox that now provides an improved distributed array construct to enable MATLAB users to directly access from a MATLAB session data that is stored on multicore computers or computer clusters. In [...]

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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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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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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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Under the Debugger Software Enhancement program for Petascale production grade tools, awarded to Allinea Software Inc. by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Q2 2009, Allinea’s Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) is setting new levels of debugger scalability on Jaguar, a Cray XT5 and one of the world’s largest supercomputers.
In Q2 2009, Allinea began a collaborative project [...]

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Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing (HPC) with two new offerings. The company today announced the release of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster, a product that dynamically changes the operating systems and personalities of compute nodes managed by Platform LSF and Platform [...]

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by Gaston Hillar
It is very important for Windows developers to understand the differences found in the complex underlying multicore and manycore hardware. Coreinfo is a very simple yet powerful command-line utility that shows you very useful information about the processors, their organization and the cache topology. A few days ago, Mark Russinovich, a well-known member [...]

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by Gaston Hillar
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 includes many interesting improvements related to its multicore programming features. The parallelism and concurrency profiling tools allow developers to visualize the behavior of a multithreaded application on multicore microprocessors and collect resource contention data.
If you want to translate multicore power into application performance, you have to make sure [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, NVIDIA announced a GPU-powered 3D Web platform. Called the NVIDIA RealityServer, it consists of Tesla GPUs, rendering software and a Web service environment, all integrated into a platform designed to deliver photorealistic image streams via a cloud computing model. The new [...]

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