There are many research papers that claim enormous speed-ups using an accelerator. From our experience a large part is because of code-modernisations (parallisation & optimisation), which makes the claim look false. That’s why we offer peer-reviews for half our rate for CUDA…
OpenCL basics: Multiple OpenCL devices with the ICD.
Most systems nowadays have more than just one OpenCL device and often from different vendors. How can they all coexist from a programming standpoint? How do they interact? OpenCL platforms and OpenCL devices Firstly, please bear with me for a few…
“Soon we will use only one thousandth of available computer capacity”
At StreamHPC we mostly work for companies in the bigger countries of Europe and North America. We hardly work for companies in the Netherlands. But it seems that after 5 years of sleeping, there is some shaking. Below is a (translated) article with…
MediaTek’s partners deliver OpenCL on their phones
Several Chinese phones bring OpenCL to millions of users, as MediaTek offers their drivers to all phone vendors who use their (recent) chipsets. Mediatek said that you just need a phone with one of the below chipsets and you can run your…
The knowns and unknowns of the PEZY-SC accelerator at RIKEN
The green500 is out and one unknown processor takes the number one position with a huge improvement over last year. It is a new super-computer installed at RIKEN with an incredible 7 GFLOPS/Watt. It is powered by the processor-boards at the right:…
Xeon Phi Knights Corner compatible workstation motherboards
Intel has assumed a lot if it comes to XeonPhi’s. One was that you will use it on dual-Xeon servers or workstations and that you already have a professional supplier of motherboards and other computer-parts. We can only guess why they’re not…