While CUDA has had the advantage of having many more libraries, this is no longer its main advantage if it comes to linear algebra. If one thing changed over the past year, then it is linalg library-support for OpenCL. The choices have been increased at a continuous rate, as you can see the below list.

If one thing can be said about Europe, is that it is quite diverse. Each country  solves or fails to solve its own problems individually, while European goals are not always well-cared for. Nevertheless, you can notice things changing. One of the areas where things have changed, is that of HPC. HPH  has always been a well-interconnected

Toolmaker VectorFabrics sent 9 predictions for this year in their newsletter. I’d like to share it with you. Nine predictions for 2014 that prove the programming landscape is changing It is not hard to predict that this year will see a lot of activity around multicores and manycores. 2014 will be the year that software

According to the latest newsletter of the Mont-Blanc Project, it was explained that the GPU on a Samsung Exynos 5 is much faster and greener than its CPU: 3.5 times faster with half the energy. They built a supercomputer using 810 Exynos SoCs, that can deliver a 26 TFLOPS of peak performance. With the upcoming

More and more professional media software now has support for OpenCL. It starts to be a race where you cannot stay behind. If the competitor runs more than twice as fast on the same hardware, then you just can’t say “Sorry, you should buy NVIDIA hardware”. I expected this to happen, but could not tell

OpenCL SPIR (Standard Portable Intermediate Representation) is an intermediate representation for OpenCL-code, comparable to LLVM IL and HSAIL. It is a search for what would be a good representation, such that parallel software runs well on all kinds of accelerators. LLVM IL is too general, but SPIR is a subset of it. I’ll discuss HSAIL,

Just to let you know that there should be even more OpenCL and related technologies on SC14 Are you interested in hosting a workshop at SC14? Please mark your calendars as SC will be accepting proposals from 1 January – 7 February for independently planned full-, half-, or multi-day workshops. Workshops complement the overall SC

Last week I needed to get Fortran working with OpenCL. As the example-page is not up-to-date and not much documentation is on the interwebs outside the official page, this was not as straight-forward as I hoped. The test-suite and this article provided code I could actually use. First I wanted to have things in a

Khronos has supported and organised for the second time the International Workgroup on OpenCL (IWOCL, pronounced as “eye-wok-ul”). Last year the event took place at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. This year the event will be held in Europe: Bristol University, Bristol, England, UK. IWOCL 2013 Presentations Last year there was a

When the new supercomputer “Cartesius” of the Netherlands was presented to the public a few months ago, the buzz was not around FLOPS, but around users. SARA CEO Dr. Ir. Anwar Osseyran kept focusing on this aspect. The design of the machine was not pushed by getting into the TOP500, but by improving the performance