For years we haven been complaining on this blog what AMD was lacking and what needed to be improved. And as you might have concluded from the title of this blogpost, there has been a lot of progress. AMD is back! It will…
ISC lunch discussion: Portable Open Standards in HPC
Are you around at ISC and have an opinion on portable open standards? Then you should join the discussion with other professionals at ISC. Some suggestions for discussions: (non)-preference for open standards like OpenCL, OpenMP, HSA and OpenACC. Portability versus performance. Using scripting…
Let’s meet at ISC in Frankfurt
Vincent Hindriksen will be walking around at ISC from 20 to 22 June. With me I bring our latest brochure, some examples of great optimisations and some Dutch delicacies. Also we will also have some exciting news with an important partner – stay tuned!…
An introduction to Grid-processors: Parallella, Kalray and KnuPath
We have been talking about GPUs, FPGAs and CPUs a lot, but there are more processors that can solve specific problems. This time I’d like you to give a quick introduction to grid-processors. Grid-processors are different from GPUs. Where a multi-core GPU gets…
Download all OpenCL header files and build your own OpenCL library
OpenCL header files When you develop professional software, it is a best practise to have external header files fixed, to have versioning under full control. This way you don’t get the surprises when your colleague has another OpenCL SDK installed. Luckily the Khronos Group has…
Heterogeneous Systems Architecture – memory sharing and task dispatching
Want to get an overview of what Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) does, or want to know what terminology has changed since version 1.0? Read further. Back in 2012 the goals for HSA were high. The group tried to design a system where CPU and…