Thursday 4 October I talk on mobile compute at Hackers&Founders Amsterdam on what mobile compute can do. The goal is to initiate new ideas for start-ups, as not many know their mobile phone and tablet is very powerful and next year…
Avoiding false dependencies in only two steps
Let’s approach the concept of programming through looking at the brain, the code and the computer. The idea of a program lives in the brain of a programmer. The way to get the program to the computer is using a system…
Do you have GPU-brains? A poster-initiative.
This is a message to GPU-programmers only. It is a simple question, and has many answers: what are GPU-brains? How is it possible your brain can code GPUs and only few friends and colleagues understand what you are doing? Is it thinking in parallel,…
AMD’s answer to NVIDIA TESLA K10: the FirePro S9000
Recently AMD announced their new FirePro GPUs to be used in servers: the S9000 (shown at the right) and the S7000. They use passive cooling, as server-racks are actively cooled already. AMD partners for servers will have products ready Q1 2013 or even…
NVIDIA ended their support for OpenCL in 2012
If you are looking for the samples in one zip-file, scroll down. The removed OpenCL-PDFs are also available for download. This sentence “NVIDIA’s Industry-Leading Support For OpenCL” was proudly used on NVIDIA’s OpenCL page last year. It seems that NVIDIA saw a…