March 3, 2015, San Francisco—The Khronos Group released the provisional specification for OpenCL, the open-source language for heterogeneous parallel computing. The intent is to enable a single code tree to execute on CPU, GPU DSP, and other hardware with dynamic system load and work balance across available processors. OpenCL offers two APIs and a kernel…
November 12, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Nandini Ramani from the Java group at Oracle described the role of Java in the world of mixed computing. The original premise of Java to write once, use anywhere fits into the paradigm of heterogeneous computing. Java has evolved into a secure, mature platform with millions of…
August 22, 2013, Hot Interconnects Symposium, San Jose, CA—Xiaoyi Lu from Ohio State presented concepts on parallel replication to improve Hadoop distributed file systems. Their work looks at the constraints built into the file system. High performance computing apps are moving to datacenters with over 400k cores. Data is transferred using message passing through the…
February 14, 2013, EECS, University of California, Berkeley—The annual EECS status update focused on cloud and computer-based functions, and the need for optimization in all aspects of computing. The ASPIRE project (Algorithms and Specializers for Provably-optimal Implementations with Resiliency and Efficiency) is looking at extensions to their parallel computing work. Krste Asanovic is looking at…
July 27, 2010—Santa Clara, CA—The Santa Clara section of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society hosted a presentation on a new memory structure, serial port memory technology. Jim Venable, president of the SPMT Consortium described the basic technology and the impending ecosystem. As system requirements for mobile devices demand greater bandwidth, equipment makers are faced with…