At the university of Newcastle they use OpenCL for researching the performance balance between software and hardware. This resource management isn’t limited to shared memory systems, but extends to mixed architectures where batches of co-processors and other resources make it much more complex…
SC15 news from Monday
Warning: below is raw material, and needs some editing. Today there was quite some news around OpenCL, I’m afraid I can’t wait till later to have all news covered. Some news is unexpected, some is great. Let’s start with the great news, as the…
OpenCL at SC15 – the booths to go to
This year we’re unfortunately not at SuperComputing 2015 for reasons you will hear later. But we haven’t forgotten about the people going and trying to find a share of OpenCL. Below is a list of companies having a booth at SC15, which…
An OpenCL-on-FPGAs presentation in a bar
What do you do when you want to explain OpenCL and FPGAs and OpenCL-on-FPGAs to a beer drinking crowd in just 15 minutes? Well, you simply can’t go deep into the matter. On a Thursday evening, 5 November 2015, I was standing on…
Porting Manchester’s UNIFAC to OpenCL@XeonPhi: 160x speedup
As we cannot use the performance results for most of our commercial projects because they contain sensitive data, we were happy that Dr. David Topping from the University of Manchester was so kind to allow us to share the data for the UNIFAC…