Years ago Microsoft was in court as it claimed Internet Explorer could not be removed from Windows without breaking the system, while competitors claimed it could. Why was this so important? Because (as it seems) the browser would get more important than the OS and internet. As important as electricity in the office and at
The current state of WebCL Read More »
Ergens opgevangen dat grafische kaarten tegenwoordig ingezet kunnen worden voor zware berekeningen? Tijdens een koffiegesprek gehoord over vector-processors als aanvulling op scalaire processors? Dan wordt het tijd dat u de grote veranderingen op processorgebied op een rijtje krijgt om uw organisatie beter op innovatief gebied te kunnen sturen. Zie https://beta.streamhpc.com/education/gratis-kennislunch/ voor een uur uitleg op lokatie. Voor
Dutch: Gratis kennisochtend over de nieuwe generatie processoren Read More »
Already the fourth PDF-Monday. It takes quite some time, so I might keep it to 10 in the future – but till then enjoy! Not sure which to read? Pick the first one (for the rest there is not order). Edit: and the last one, follow me on twitter to see the PDFs I’m reading. Reason
PDFs of Monday 19 September Read More »
Since more than a year I have this blog and I want to show the visitors around the world. Why? Then you know where OpenCL is popular and where not. I chose an unknown period, so you cannot really reverse engineer how many visitors I have – but the nice thing is that not much
Interest in OpenCL Read More »
As it got more popular that I shared my readings, I decided to put them on my site. I focus on everything that uses vector-processing (GPUs, heterogeneous computing, CUDA, OpenCL, GPGPU, etc). Did I miss something or you have a story you want to share? Contact me or comment on this article. If you tell others
PDFs of Monday 12 September Read More »
Live from le Centre Pompidou in Paris: Monday PDF-day. I have never been inside the building, but it is a large public library where people are queueing to get in – no end to the knowledge-economy in Paris. A great place to read some interesting articles on the subjects I like. CUDA-accelerated genetic feedforward-ANN training
PDFs of Monday 5 September Read More »
This is the first PDF-Monday. It started as I used Mondays to read up on what happens around OpenCL and I like to share with you. It is a selection of what I find (somewhat) interesting – don’t hesitate to contact me on anything you want to know about accelerated software. Parallel Programming Models for
PDFs of Monday 29 August Read More »
OpenCL is a member of a family of Host-Kernel programming language extensions. Others are CUDA, IMPC and DirectCompute/AMP. It lets itself define by a separate function or set of functions referenced to as kernel, which are prepared and launched by the host to run in parallel. Added to that are deeply integrated language-extensions for vectors, which
MPI in terms of OpenCL Read More »
Answer: No, or not yet. Apple tested Intel and AMD hardware for OSX, and not portable devices. Sorry for the false rumour; I’ll keep you posted. Update: It seems that OpenCL is on iOS, but only available to system-libraries and not for apps (directly). That explains part of the responsiveness of the system. At the
Is OpenCL coming to Apple iOS? Read More »
Reducing energy-consumption is “hot” After reading this article “Nvidia is losing on the HPC front” by The Inquirer which mixes up the demand for low-power architectures with the other side of the market: the demand for high performance. It made me think that it is not that clear there are two markets using the same technology.
Power to the Vector Processor Read More »