One of the world’s most used software is far from performance optimised and there is hardly anything we can do about it. I’m talking about Excel. There are various engine replacements which promise higher speeds, but those have the disadvantage that they’re…
Online Tutorials are here
We’re going online with our presentations and tutorials. This makes it easy to reach more people and make our trainings more flexible. We’re starting with short introductory trainings, but we have bigger plans. Keep an eye on our events (shared on Twitter,…
How we sped up a flooding simulation 35 times (from 32-core CPU to multi-GPU)
How water moves through an area given a certain pace of instream, can be fully simulated. We got a request to make such simulation faster, as it took already too much time to do moderate simulations. As the customer wanted to…
Get ready for conversions of large-scale CUDA software to AMD hardware
In the past years we have been translating several types of software to AMD, targeting OpenCL (and HSA). The main problem was that manual porting limits the size of the to-be-ported code-base. Luckily there is a new tool in town. AMD…
Dear Linux-users, during the transition period for FGLRX to AMDGPU/ROCm there’s no kernel 4.4 or Xorg 1.18 support
The information you find everywhere: on Linux the current “radeon” and “fglrx” are being replaced by AMDGPU (graphics) and ROCm (compute) for HSA-enabled GPUs. As the whole AMD Linux driver team is seemingly working on getting the new and open source…