Why you should just delve into porting difficult puzzles using the GPU, to learn GPGPU-languages like CUDA, HIP, SYCL, Metal or OpenCL. And if you did not pick one, why not N-Queens? N-Queens is a truly fun puzzle to work on, and I am looking forward to learning about better approaches via the comments. We […]
N-Queens project from over 10 years ago Read More »
At StreamHPC we do several very different types of projects, but this project has been very, very different. In the first place, it was nowhere close to scientific simulation or media processing. Our client, Intersoft solutions, asked us to speed up thousands of payroll calculations on a GPU. They wanted to solve a simple problem,
The Fastest Payroll System Of The World Read More »
How fast is your software? The simpler the software setup, the easier to answer this question. The more complex the software, the more the answer will “it depends”. But just peek at F1-racing – the answer will depend on the driver and the track. This article focuses on the foundations of solid benchmarking, so it
The Art of Benchmarking Read More »
Stream HPC is 10 years old on 1 April 2020. Therefore we offer our one day GPGPU crash course for free that whole month. Now Corona (and fear for it) spreads, we had to rethink how to celebrate 10 years. So while there were different plans, we simply had to adapt to the market and
Birthday present! Free 1-day Online GPGPU crash course: CUDA / HIP / OpenCL Read More »
We are a problem solving company first, specialised in HPC – building software close to the processor. The more projects we finish, the more it’s clear that without our problem solving skills, we could not tackle the complexity of a GPU and CPU-clusters. While I normally shield off how we do and how we continuously
Problem solving tactic: making black boxes smaller Read More »
If you’re into computational finance, you might have heard of FinanceBench. It’s a benchmark developed at the University of Deleware and is aimed at those who work with financial code to see how certain code paths can be targeted for accelerators. It utilizes the original QuantLib software framework and samples to port four existing applications for quantitative
Improving FinanceBench Read More »
Update: due to Corona, the Amsterdam training has been cancelled. We’ll offer the training online on dates that better suit the participants. As it has been very busy here, we have not done public trainings for a long time. This year we’re going to train future GPU-developers again – online. For now it’s one date,
Updated: OpenCL and CUDA programming training – now online Read More »
Soon there will be another Dutch eScience Symposium 2019 in Amsterdam. We thought it might be a good place to meet and listen to e-science talks. Stream HPC in the end is just making scientific software, so we’re here at the right place. The eScience Center is a government institute that aims to advance eScience
Join us at the Dutch eScience Symposium 2019 in Amsterdam Read More »
Last year we accelerated the OpenCL-code in PaSWAS, which is open source software to do DNA/RNA/protein sequence alignment and trimming. It has users world-wide in universities, research groups and industry. Below you’ll find the benchmark results of our acceleration work. You can also test out yourself, as the code is public. In the readme-file you
We accelerated the OpenCL backend of pyPaSWAS sequence aligner Read More »
In January 2019 I gave a talk about culture in the company, which I wanted to share with you. It was intended to trigger discussions on what environment fits somebody, and examples were given on other companies. The nice part was that it became more clear that the culture of a company like CodePlay was
Do you have our GPU DNA? Read More »