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Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

...had to be ported from RISC to x86, but we did it. GPUs are, however, very different to CPUs in terms of programming. The ecosystem... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Andrew Jones

Nvidia boss: Power limits shape supercomputing

...power has become a limiting factor. The company makes graphic processing units (GPUs) for video game consoles and professional workstations but its processors are also... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Apple tweaks MacBook Pro specs in range refresh

...Graphics 3000 in the entry-level models and AMD's latest Radeon GPUs in the more expensive variants. The 15-inch MacBook Pro, for example... Read more

25 October, 2011 by David Meyer

AMD invites developers to write for Llano APUs

...were announced in June. AMD calls such devices, which combine CPUs and GPUs, 'accelerated processing units', or APUs. The new toolkit "helps developers quickly and... Read more

8 August, 2011 by David Meyer

HTC buys S3 Graphics for $300m

...and sale of its processors and chipsets". S3 makes graphics processing units (GPUs) and licenses its technology to game console companies such as Nintendo, as... Read more

6 July, 2011 by David Meyer

GPU-based servers lack enterprise appeal

...GPUs have increasingly gained favour among companies that utilise high-performance computing, but... Read more

15 December, 2010 by Liau Yun Qing

Nvidia focuses on GPUs with Chinese researchers

...the Beijing Genomics Institute to develop research applications that make use of GPUs. The link-up, announced on Thursday, will yield the creation of a... Read more

9 July, 2011

Cray taps GPUs for 50-petaflop supercomputer

...Cray has married GPUs and CPUs to create the XK6 high-performance computer, which it says... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Supercomputer software firm to support Nvidia GPUs

...with GPU cards," he said. Support is currently limited to the Nvidia GPUs, including Tesla, because of their use of the Cuda software instruction set... Read more

9 November, 2010 by Jack Clark
Accelerating Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication on Many-Core <endeca_term>GPUs</endeca_term>

Accelerating Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication on Many-Core GPUs

Many-core GPUs provide high computing ability and substantial bandwidth; however, optimizing irregular applications like... Read more

30 January, 2012
TACC Technical Report TR-11-01 Finite Element Integration on <endeca_term>GPUs</endeca_term>

TACC Technical Report TR-11-01 Finite Element Integration on GPUs

Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) present a promising platform for scientific simulation, offering high performance with excellent... Read more

2 March, 2011
ECC2K-130 on NVIDIA <endeca_term>GPUs</endeca_term>

ECC2K-130 on NVIDIA GPUs

...is currently underway on multiple platforms, including standard CPUs, FPGAs, PlayStations and GPUs, to break the Certicom ECC2K-130 challenge. GPUs are not designed for... Read more

2 January, 2012
Accelerating SSL with <endeca_term>GPUs</endeca_term>

Accelerating SSL with GPUs

...the server side. In this paper, the authors propose Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as a new source of computing power to reduce the server-side... Read more

1 March, 2011
A New Data Layout For Set Intersection on <endeca_term>GPUs</endeca_term>

A New Data Layout For Set Intersection on GPUs

...a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) as a massively parallel computing device. However, GPUs require highly regular control flow and memory access patterns, and for this... Read more

4 February, 2011
EigenCFA: Accelerating Flow Analysis With <endeca_term>GPUs</endeca_term>

EigenCFA: Accelerating Flow Analysis With GPUs

...an optimized CPU implementation. They began their investigation with the view that GPUs accelerate high-arithmetic, data-parallel computations with a poor tolerance for branching... Read more

28 January, 2011

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