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Cost: The Biggest Pothole on the Exascale Road

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Konstantin S. Solnushkin

Recently, industry analyst John Barr wrote at the ISC blog about “Potholes on the Road to Exascale”. John speaks about a unified programming environment that should be able to support all sorts of computing devices of the future. That’s right: … Continue reading →

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AMD Promises Hybrid CPU+GPU Device with Uniform Memory Access

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Konstantin S. Solnushkin

The idea of using graphics hardware to perform computations dates back to 1978. However, AMD claims that it was them who “kicked off the GPGPU revolution” in November 2006. What is really important is that it was standardisation that allowed … Continue reading →

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Intel MIC, aka Xeon Phi, aka Doubtful Creativity

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Konstantin S. Solnushkin

They created a monster. It contains enough cores to be a computer on its own — yet it needs to be plugged into a “real” computer, and acts only as an accelerator. It’s cores are based on P54C architecture, introduced … Continue reading →

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Marrying NVIDIA Tesla and InfiniBand?

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Konstantin S. Solnushkin

My friend is working on a research project dedicated to many-core architectures, such as NVIDIA’s GPUs or Intel’s Xeon Phi, that have lots of simple cores best suited to straightforward computations. Sometimes those cores need to communicate with their neighbours … Continue reading →

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