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Microsoft puts more Azure cloud plumbing in place

Sujana — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:47:39 +0000

by Mary Jo Foley, CNET Microsoft is continuing to lay the groundwork for the commercial version of its Azure cloud environement, rolling out a new content delivery network (CDN) capability, as well as the November update to its Azure developer services. On November 5, Microsoft delivered the November Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of its Service [...]

Platform Computing Advances Cloud Computing for HPC

Sujana — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:39:02 +0000

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 [...]

ARM’s next gen mobile processor

Sujana — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:36:19 +0000

The smartphone arena is an ever changing mass of molding parts and software that keeps geeks on their toes. Even though my iPhone 3G is only a year and a half old, the Droid I just picked up today (get used to it…I’m going to talk about it a whoooole lot) is many times faster [...]

Intel’s James Reinders on parallelism - Part 2

Sujana — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:35:55 +0000

by Gordon Haff Intel’s James Reinders is an expert on parallelism; his most recent book covered the C++ extensions for parallelism provided by Intel Threaded Building Blocks. He’s also the Director of Marketing and Business for the company’s Software Development Products. In Part 1 of our discussion at the Intel Developers Forum in September we talked [...]

Six-core DSP stresses energy efficiency

Sujana — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:35:17 +0000

By Robert Cravotta Texas Instruments’ new six-core TMS320C6472 DSP boasts a 3.68W power-use sweet spot when operating all six cores at 500 MHz with 80% usage. The cores support 625- and 700-MHz operation with a trade-off of energy efficiency at the 500-MHz operation point. The device includes 4.8 Mbytes of L1 and L2 memory partitioned so [...]

Tatvik Makes HD Real-Time H.264 Codec Available

Sujana — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:34:16 +0000

Tatvik Technologies, a provider of high performance software codecs solutions for embedded devices and handhelds, has started providing “PC Codecs Series” of H.264 video and AAC Audio encoder and Decoder for PC server. H.264 encoder/Decoder for PC server have been highly tuned to give best performance and best quality on multi core x86 CPU. High performance [...]

IBM Offers Free Public Cloud Beta For Software Development

Sujana — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:50:08 +0000

IBM has announced its IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud, a free public cloud beta for software development that provides compute and storage as a service. At the same time, the company announced Rational Software Delivery Services — a set of ready-to-use ALM tools for developing and testing in the IBM [...]

Multicore Storage Allocation

Sujana — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:46:44 +0000

by Charles Leiserson When multicore-enabling a C/C++ application, it’s common to discover that malloc() (or new) is a bottleneck that limits the speedup your parallelized application can obtain. This article explains the four basic problems that a good parallel storage allocator solves: * Thread safety * Overhead [...]

Five role playing exercises to introduce parallelism concepts

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:07:56 +0000

By Robert Chesebrough Here are the five role playing activities used at the High School Parallelism bootcamp to put students in the place of procesor cores and had them perform tasks in parallel. These activities proved to be popular among many of the students at the camp, however, some of the more advanced students did express [...]

Using multicore procesors in embedded systems - part 1

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:55:22 +0000

By Dale Fittes Outside of the PC-world, Sun and IBM have also offered multi-processor and muticore servers for a number of years. For embedded developers, ARM has announced a multicore roadmap based on the Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor, while Freescales’ PowerPC CPUs have a second processor core dedicated to IO tasks. Once seen as exotic, multicore is [...]

Platform Launches Private and Hybrid Cloud Management Products

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:51:35 +0000

by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor On Wednesday, Platform Computing released Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster, a private cloud management product that can dynamically reprovision the operating environment of HPC clusters. The company also announced a new “cloud bursting” feature for ISF that allows applications running on local machines to transparently grab CPU cycles on external clouds. [...]

Intel’s James Reinders on parallelism: Part 1

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:32:26 +0000

by Gordon Haff, CNET Multicore processors are here to stay and the number of cores that we’ll see packed onto a single chip is only going to increase. That’s because Moore’s Law is only indirectly about performance; it’s directly about increasing the number of transistors. And, for a variety of reasons, turning those transistors [...]

Accellera in International SoC Conference on Multicore

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:30:18 +0000

Accellera Participates in International SoC Conference Panel on Improving Design Productivity and IP Quality Through the Effective Use of Standards for Complex Multicore SoCs. Panelists from Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) standards, and The SPIRIT Consortium will present on “Improving Design Productivity and IP Quality through the Effective Use [...]

Graphics processing: When DIY just doesn’t make sense

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:28:29 +0000

By Remi Pedersen, product manager for ARM’s Mali family of GPUs There are many reasons why design teams now favor licensing a complete integrated graphics processing unit (GPU) solution over designing one in-house. As Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM, explains, when designers choose to make or buy a GPU, they should consider the total [...]

Multicore, multiIP reduce development time for infotainment apps

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:59 +0000

By Matthias Wenzel With its new SH7786, Renesas has introduced a new concept in modular multimedia processors and complete multimedia system solutions for the automotive industry. Single-chip and System-on-Chip (SoC) processors provide customers with scalable and integrated solutions within a single product family. The new range offers a multi-core and multi-IP design for increased scalability, a [...]

Nvidia taps Transmeta team for x86 chip, claims analyst

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:06:57 +0000

By Tony Smith, Register Hardware Nvidia has taken on staff from one-time star of low-power processor design Transmeta, an analyst has claimed, to drive its own x86 core development programme. In a note sent to investment clients yesterday, Doug Freedman of research house AmTech said Nvidia has to be considering a move into the x86 CPU [...]

QuickPath Interconnect (QPI): Rules of the Revolution

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:59:39 +0000

by Robert J. Safranek and Michelle J. Moravan In early generation Intel systems traffic was broadcast across the shared, bi-directional “Front Side” Bus. With many sources driving the bus, electrical constraints made improving Intel FSB performance a challenge. Techniques included increasing the bus clock frequency and transferring requests at two and four times the bus clock [...]

Getting GPUs on the grid

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:57:05 +0000

by Miriam Boon, iSGTW Enhancing the performance of computer clusters and supercomputers using graphical processing units is all the rage. But what happens when you put these chips on a full-fledged grid? Meet “Magic,” a supercomputing cluster based at the University of Buffalo’s CyberInfrastructure Laboratory (CI Lab). On the surface, Magic is like any other cluster of [...]

ESC Silicon Valley Joins Forces With the Fifth Multicore Expo

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:49:05 +0000

EE Times Group, a division of United Business Media, announced today that ESC Silicon Valley, the global electronics industry’s leading event, will take place in combination with Multicore Expo, the premier forum devoted to the multicore technologies that re transforming the embedded computing industry. At this co-located event taking place in San Jose April [...]

ScaleMP cuts InfiniBand out of virtual SMP clusters

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:46:05 +0000

By Timothy Prickett Morgan ScaleMP, a maker of virtualization and aggregation software that allows a cluster of x64 servers to look like a big, bad, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) shared-memory system to operating systems and selected classes of applications, is going downstream to target SMBs and upstream to chase cloud infrastructure providers. While ScaleMP wants to make a [...]

CAPS Previews New Back-End OpenCL Code Generators

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:45:08 +0000

CAPS, the pioneer in directive-based compiler technology with its HMPP flagship workbench, is pleased to announce the release of two new AMD CAL/IL and OpenCL back-end code generators, plus support for Windows operating system, thus expanding the field for new HMPP adopters. While CAL/IL leverages the performance of AMD Stream processors, OpenCL perfectly matches HMPP code [...]

3Leaf makes big SMPs out of x64 clusters

Sujana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:44:50 +0000

By Timothy Prickett Morgan Everybody is looking to shake up the server business this days, it seems. But everyone had better get in line behind 3Leaf Systems, which is launching its much awaited “Aqua” system pooling and virtualization chipset and an intriguing x64 system to match. A little more than two years ago, 3Leaf Systems came out [...]

“HPC in the Cloud” Special Supplement from HPC Wire

Sujana — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:23:32 +0000

HPC Wire publishes a special supplement on using Cloud Computing model in HPC paradigm. “Despite the pervasiveness of cloud computing in the broader IT industry, the challenges of using this model for high performance computing are unique to the HPC paradigm. In an effort to help demystify and illuminate this important subject, HPCwire offers this [...]

Erik Meijer and Burton Smith - Concurrency, Parallelism and Programming

Sujana — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:23:30 +0000

In this video, Burton Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow and an international leader in high-performance computer architecture and programming languages for parallel computing joins functional programming purist and language design guru Erik Meijer discuss several major themes of parallel computing and distributed programming. Source

AMD’s six-core ‘Thuban’ set for Q2 2010?

Sujana — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:19:36 +0000

By Rik Myslewski, Register Hardware AMD is reported to have rejiggered its phase-out and phase-in plans for various members of its Phenom II and Athlon II processor lines. According to a report on Monday by the Taiwanese market-watchers at DigiTimes, “sources at motherboard makers” say that AMD has stopped taking orders for the 2.6GHz Phenom II X4 [...]