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Nvidia looks to the future of GPU computing

Nvidia looks to the future of GPU computing

...in its Tesla and Fermi-based GeForce graphics cards have made massively parallel computing mainstream, using everyday hardware rather than research workstations. Slightly disappointing second... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Mary Branscombe

Parallel computing takes a step forward

Is there a shift towards parallelism going on? You could fairly argue that, obviously, with multi-core CPUs and GPUs now... Read more

2 February, 2012
Optimizing Data Partitioning for Data-<endeca_term>Parallel Computing</endeca_term>

Optimizing Data Partitioning for Data-Parallel Computing

Performance of data-parallel computing (e.g., MapReduce, DryadLINQ) heavily depends on its data partitions. Solutions... Read more

13 April, 2011
CUDA: Speeding Up <endeca_term>Parallel Computing</endeca_term>

CUDA: Speeding Up Parallel Computing

...programming languages. It's intended for developing parallel processing applications. The CUDA parallel-computing architecture supports many computational interfaces such as OpenGL and it is... Read more

13 November, 2010
Oracle Scheduling: Controlling Granularity in Implicitly Parallel Languages

Oracle Scheduling: Controlling Granularity in Implicitly Parallel Languages

A classic problem in parallel computing is determining whether to execute a task in parallel or sequentially... Read more

27 October, 2011
Profiling Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Systems to Accelerate Cortically Inspired Learning Algorithms

Profiling Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Systems to Accelerate Cortically Inspired Learning Algorithms

Recent advances in neuroscientific understanding make parallel computing devices modeled after the human neocortex a plausible, attractive, fault-tolerant... Read more

31 January, 2011
Scheduling in MapReduce-Like Systems for Fast Completion Time

Scheduling in MapReduce-Like Systems for Fast Completion Time

...data processing needs of enterprises today are primarily met with distributed and parallel computing in data centers. MapReduce has emerged as an important programming model... Read more

15 January, 2011
Energy Efficient Prefetching With Buffer Disks for Cluster File Systems

Energy Efficient Prefetching With Buffer Disks for Cluster File Systems

Energy efficient computing is becoming increasingly important as the scale of parallel computing systems is expanding. As the processing power of parallel computing systems... Read more

7 October, 2010
Wipro Develops HPC Solutions to Aid Customers, Expand Market Opportunity

Wipro Develops HPC Solutions to Aid Customers, Expand Market Opportunity

...Global System Integrator, works with Microsoft to develop industry-specific solutions for parallel computing and other technologies such as the Windows Azure technology platform. By... Read more

1 August, 2010
4-(N2-1) Puzzle: Parallelization and Performance on Clusters

4-(N2-1) Puzzle: Parallelization and Performance on Clusters

One of the areas of interest in parallel computing in recent years has been search processing in graphs. Discrete Optimization... Read more

1 June, 2010

Nvidia takes its GPU to the enterprise cloud

...the earlier Fermi processors, Kepler introduces two key features that improve its parallel computing performance. Dynamic parallelism adds support for run-time dependencies in Cuda... Read more

16 May, 2012 by Simon Bisson

Free reading matter from the NAS

...Performance Published this year, this report focuses on the research areas for parallel computing systems as the only way to continue the growth in computing... Read more

6 June, 2011

Nvidia earnings lift off with Tegra growth

Nvidia's first-quarter earnings show an upswing in sales of its Tegra mobile device chip, while the company expects the growth in mobile devices and its Icera acquisition to drive future earnings Read more

13 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

UK supercomputer probes dark matter and dark energy

...the Sciama supercomputer can process this data rapidly through the use of parallel computing. "We realised there's an awful lot of our calculations that... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Intel to pay Nvidia $1.5bn in cross-licensing deal

...cross licence with Intel reflects the substantial value of our visual and parallel computing technologies," Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, said in a... Read more

11 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

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