On 15 – 17 April 2014 a 3-day workshop around HPC is organised. It is free, and focuses on bringing industry and academy together. Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) / Johannes Kepler University Linz Kirchenplatz 5b (Castle of Hagenberg) 4232 Hagenberg…
First Khronos Chapter meeting in Amsterdam: WebGL/OpenGL
Thursday 13 February 2014 the first Khronos meetup in will take place. We expect a small group, so the location will be cozy and there will be enough time to talk with a beer. First round is on me, admission is…
OpenCL alternatives for CUDA Linear Algebra Libraries
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…
European HPC Magazines
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…
VectorFabrics: 2014 will be parallel
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…