Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of the UltraSPARC T2 Reference Design Kit [RDK] geared towards accelerating the design, development and testing of UltraSPARC T2 processor-based embedded systems. The RDK offers systems designers an array of development tools and hardware interconnect options built specifically for their chip-multithreading [CMT] technology. The availability of the UltraSPARC T2 […]
Archives for 2008
Serial Semantics with Cilk++
December 16, 2008 by
Steve Lewin-Berlin, VP of Engineering and Operations for CilkArts, has written an interesting introspective post on why using serial semantics in a natively parallel programming construct is the cat’s pajamas. The Cilk++ programming semantics are essentially extensions to what look like standard, serial C++ constructs. One can simply add ‘cilk_spawn’, ‘cilk_sync’, and replace standard ‘for’ […]
Finding the memristor
December 15, 2008 by
Another article at IEEE Spectrum today, this one from Stanley Williams at HP. Williams led the team that has discovered a physical instantiantion of the fourth fundamental circuit element (the other three being the resistor, capacitor, and inductor) predicted by Chua in his 1971 paper. Combined with transistors in a hybrid chip, memristors could radically […]
Final move update, email resolved
December 15, 2008 by
Checking the last box post move, I think we’ve got all the email issues resolved, so everything should be five by five on the site now. If you see any problems or experience weirdness (related to the site), send me email and we’ll look after it.
Emerging Multicore Computing Technology in Earth and Space Sciences
December 15, 2008 by
Just got an email from Doug Enright with news about multicore papers being briefed at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting, going on right now in San Francisco. Here’s what Doug has to say It’s the annual fall AGU meeting this week and the following many/multicore session is being held: Emerging Multicore Computing Technology in […]
Berkeley patterns for parallel programming
December 15, 2008 by
From the Intel Software Network, we find news that Berkeley’s ParLab has hosted a workshop focused on writing design patterns for parallel computing Ok, so…why is this interesting? Consider: the present state of parallel programming looks a lot like that of object-oriented programming in the early 1990s — a small number of practioners understand and […]
PRACE Winter Petascale Computing School
December 15, 2008 by
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe [PRACE] has announced a Winter School on Petascale Computing. The event in hosted by the Greek Research and Technology Network with contributions from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [AUTH]. Researchers and students in Europe are encouraged to attend the various courses on OpenMP/MPI, optimization techniques and profiling of […]
Google U: intro to parallel programming and MapReduce
December 15, 2008 by
Twittered from jhlagado, a link to training at Google Code University on parallel programming with MapReduce. All HTML-y, for easy reading on your iPhone during the commute, and with example code.
Intro to parallel programming: 3 things you must teach
December 15, 2008 by
Intel Software College Architect Clay Breshears stars in a new training material at the Intel Software Network that covers basic content any professor should teach when introducing parlallel programming. While not designed specifically for engineers, this content should also be of use for anyone seeking to understand the basicis of parallel programming on multi-core machines. […]
Kogge on Spectrum Radio, DARPA report's gloomy predictions for exascale computing
December 15, 2008 by
Via HPCwire, a podcast piece from IEEE Spectrum from a couple weeks ago that I’ve just added to my iPhone for drive home listening. In it Peter Kogge talks about the DARPA report that throws water on the idea that we’ll get to exascale computing anytime soon (if ever): The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects […]
