Supercomputer market growth hinges on 3D Web Nov 19, 2009
Intel is also developing a new parallel processing software technology called "Ct" for "C for Throughput Computing.". According to Rattner, now it's up to the supercomputing community to harness these supercomputing tools to tackle 3D web applications that can drive HPC into mass markets like fashion. (EETimes)
Software for Solving Life-Threatening Medical Puzzles Nov 15, 2009
"We are preparing a mechanism that uses partitioning and parallel processing to create sub-graphs that can then be merged. But this is research at an early planning stage.". From overview to discovery. (Science Daily)
Thwarting Cyber Criminals Nov 2, 2009
Existing systems, used with smart card applications or at credit card payment terminals, are often slow, lack sufficient security against quantum computing attacks, and have not been optimized for parallel processing ... In addition, MQQ is one of the first algorithms that has been specifically designed for parallel processing, which makes it possible to benefit from the recent trends in multicore parallel processing and even double or triple the speed of the algorithm, and beyond. (Science Daily)
Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India Oct 20, 2009
Theres a huge role for parallel processing computation because we have to do de-duplication. Authentication has to be online, real-time and these are very compute-intensive functions. (India Times)
Intel, foundation settle suit Oct 6, 2009
The foundation's complaint identified the Intel Core2 Duo microarchitecture as infringing WARF's U.S. Patent No. 5,781,752, entitled "Table Based Data Speculation Circuit for Parallel Processing Computer.". Related Links. (EETimes)
Cloudera Intros Hadoop Management Tools Oct 5, 2009
"If Hadoop is to consistently handle workloads as diverse and demanding as those of [massively parallel processing] relational DBMSes, it needs a lot of tools and infrastructure," Monash said via e-mail. "The three leaders in developing those are Yahoo, Cloudera, and Facebook. There's a long way to go.". (Yahoo News -- Technology)
IDF 09: More speed on the go Oct 2, 2009
Maloney claims that Larrabee will have all the traditional strengths of Intel Architecture (IA), mainly ease of programming and the power of parallel processing. The unique feature of Larrabee is its fully programmable rendering pipeline, which allows programmers to add effects like voxel rendering and ray tracing with just a few lines of code as opposed to a few hundred. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Ants Vs. Worms: New Computer Security Mimics Nature Sep 30, 2009
Fink was familiar with Fulp s expertise developing faster scans using parallel processing dividing computer data into batches like lines of shoppers going through grocery store checkouts, where each lane is focused on certain threats. He invited Fulp and Wake Forest graduate students Wes Featherstun and Brian Williams to join a project there this summer that tested digital ants on a network of 64 computers. (Science Daily)
Scientists engineer E. coli to trace faces, images Sep 30, 2009
If the bacteria were a computer, this would be called parallel processing. A traditional computer traces the outline of an image using serial computing, making one calculation at a time. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Ode to Source: A History of Valve's Game Engine Sep 23, 2009
With the advents of 3D, discrete graphics chips, and parallel processing the usefulness of markers and butcher paper has plummeted. What has emerged to replace them is the "game engine," a commonly used but generally misunderstood, term to describe the tools with which a modern game is made. (IGN PC Games)
Rome Was Built In A Day, With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Digital Photos Sep 16, 2009
The code also uses parallel processing techniques, allowing it to run simultaneously on many computers, or even on remote servers connected through the Internet. The new, faster code makes it possible to tackle more ambitious projects. (Science Daily)
Researchers Using Parallel Processing Computing Could Save Thousands By Using An Xbox Sep 16, 2009
15, 2009) A new study by a University of Warwick researcher has demonstrated that researchers trying to model a range of processes could use the power and capabilities of a particular XBox chip as a much cheaper alternative to other forms of parallel processing hardware ... To conduct these simulations using traditional CPU based processing one would normally need to book time on a dedicated parallel processing computer or spend thousands on a parallel network of PCs ... His time there made him... (Science Daily)
Xbox speeds up research results Sep 15, 2009
Academics at the University of Warwick believe they are the first to use the processors as a cheap way to conduct "parallel processing" ... The chip was able to perform parallel processing functions at a fraction of the cost a traditional systems ... However, it is thought that this is the first time an Xbox has been used to perform parallel processing, albeit on a single chip. (BBC News -- Technology)
Millionths Of A Second Can Cost Millions Of Dollars: A New Way To Track Network Delays Sep 1, 2009
Similar delays can delay parallel processing in high performance cluster computing applications run by Fortune 500 companies and universities. See also. (Science Daily)
NVIDIA Congratulates Jim Henson's Creature Shop(TM) on Winning Primetime Emmy Engineering Award Aug 29, 2009
NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has ranked NVIDIA #1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years in a row. (PR Newswire)
FreeBSD to Upgrade Routing Architecture Aug 25, 2009
0, due out next month, will include a new routing architecture that takes advantage of parallel processing capabilities ... The end result is a routing architecture that can take better advantage of multi-core, parallel processing CPUs. (Datamation)
Maui supercomputing center gets huge boost Aug 23, 2009
KIHEI, Maui - The Maui High Performance Computing Center got more Mana on Friday - that's the name of its new platform, a giant parallel processing machine that requires $350,000 worth of electricity a month to keep it humming. Mana is double the power of its predecessor, Jaws, which in turn was a huge step up when it was installed just three years ago. (Honolulu Advertiser)
NH man snares rare, cobalt-blue lobster Aug 22, 2009
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking , today announced that its senior architect, Qing Li, will present his latest research on leveraging the power of parallel processing during the session, Optimizing the BSD Routing System for Parallel Processing, at an ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Aug. 21, 2009, in Barcelona, Spain ... The new architecture eliminates data dependencies among the OSI layers to facilitate parallel processing. (Fresno Bee)
It's new life for me, says Nilekani on ID card project Jul 26, 2009
"The project would require advance technology as it will involve biometrics and parallel processing. So we will also look for globally renowned technical experts in certain areas," he said. The identification numbers, Nilekani said, will not only provide an identity to citizens but also help them in obtaining benefits of government schemes. (India Times, India)
StudioGPU MachStudio Pro Adds Support for Google SketchUp Pro and Rhino Software Jul 24, 2009
MachStudio Pro is real-time 3D final shot and compositing package that harnesses the power of todays massively parallel processing units in off-the-shelf professional graphics accelerators, changing the equation of time versus quality in the production pipeline ... MachStudio Pro ships with an AMD ATI FireGL V8650 3D-workstation graphics accelerator card featuring 2 GB onboard graphics memory and a parallel processing Unified Shader architecture. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Bangladeshi Software Company TigerIT is Ranked in the Top Three in the NIST AFIS Benchmark Battle Jul 4, 2009
0 standards, delivering a services-oriented engine that is highly scalable, leveraging parallel processing technology and standard, commercial computing hardware. The business rules and workflows that moderate the TigerAFIS are completely configurable for each customer and are abstracted from both the TigerAFIS matching engine, as well as any applications that are delivered. (Primezone Releases)
CPUs gear up for--and some avoid--Hot Chips Jun 19, 2009
Rock provided hardware support for two advances in parallel processing, transactional memory that would eliminate today's inefficient data locking techniques and scout threads that could pre-fetch data to cache in anticipation of program branches. "The signs are not looking good, so we may be writing an epitaph for Rock soon," said Nathan Brookwood, principal of market watcher Insight64 (Saratoga, Calif. (EETimes)
FOX International Channels (Japan) to Use Interra's BatonTM Content Verification Software, June 4, 2009 Jun 5, 2009
With engagements like these, we are aiming to provide total solution required for digital content delivery service," commented Yosuke Kaburagi, President and CEO of IT Access Co., Ltd.BatonTM is an automated content verification system for file-based SD, HD, and mixed workflows. Supporting multiple codecs and media containers, Baton ensures quality control of media content before playout. BatonTM is highly flexible and can be quickly scaled for large facilities or high volume of content. As a... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Elemental Announces Breakthrough New Video Processing System That Harnesses the Power of GPUs for Encoding and Transcoding May 21, 2009
Elemental Technologies is the leading provider of massively parallel processing solutions for video applications. Using off-the-shelf, programmable graphics processing units (GPUs) for compute-intensive video processing and conversion tasks, Elemental's products are ideally suited for a variety of video applications including consumer media processing, professional video editing and Internet video processing. (PR Newswire)
MapReduce in the browser helps collaborative ... May 6, 2009
Data processing requiring massive parallel processing is ideally suited for capabilities of MapReduce. MapReduce creates a framework for mapping a computation to run across thousands of low-cost PCs, and then reducing, or reassembling the individual computations into a final answer. (Search Webservices)
Intel Article: Dynamically Scalable Intel Microarchitecture Codenamed Nehalem Apr 30, 2009
Designed from the ground up to take advantage of hafnium-based Intel 45nm hi-k metal gate silicon technology, Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem unleashes parallel processing performance enabled by Intel QuickPath technology providing an integrated memory controller and high-speed interconnect per independent processing core. Intelligent Performance Intelligent performance means servers running Intel Xeon processor 5500 series can adjust performance and power usage in real time to meet the exact... (IntranetJournal)
2009 NAB Show Exhibitor Profiles Apr 18, 2009
The company's patent-pending, GPU-based Pixel Strings format conversion engine is the result of over five years of dedicated research into parallel processing methods to enhance complex, real-time video processing techniques. Pixel Strings is the backbone of the companys flagship software Dark Energy. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Supercomputer Pioneer David R. Miller Dies at 82 Apr 4, 2009
Denelcor built the world's first commercially available supercomputer with parallel processing capabilities. Born on September 28, 1926, David Miller grew up on a depression-era farm in an Amish and Mennonite community near Somerset, Pennsylvania. (PR Newswire)
Relationships suffer under stress of raising child with ADHD, study finds Mar 25, 2009
A second exercise called for parents to monitor the kids solving math problems while they themselves had to fill out a checkbook, the kind of parallel processing that induces stress. The easy kids attended to their homework; the difficult kids refused to do their homework, scribbling on their papers or erasing their answers and blowing the shavings on the parents. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
MotionDSP vReveal Puts 'CSI'-Style Video Enhancement Software in Consumers' Hands Mar 24, 2009
Using the massively parallel processing power in NVIDIA(R) CUDA(TM)-enabled GPUs, vReveal instantly cleans up videos that are shaky, dark, noisy, or blurry ... vReveal has been programmed to leverage the tremendous parallel processing power of the 150 million CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs that are in PCs all over the world ... Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: development of more efficient or faster technology; adoption of the CPU for parallel processing;... (PR Newswire)
Ex-Google, Yahoo Staffers Release Hadoop Distribution Mar 17, 2009
Cloudera's distribution has three components: the Hadoop distributed file system, which can run on commodity machines; an implementation of the MapReduce framework originally developed by Google for parallel processing of large data sets; and Hive, a data warehousing layer that uses the SQL-based HQL language for querying. Also Monday, Cloudera said it had secured US$5 million in funding from Accel Partners along with other investors, including former MySQL and Sun executive Marten Mickos,... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Manifold Sets New GIS Record for Supercomputing Desktop Mar 16, 2009
NVIDIA GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) employ multiple parallel processing units for faster performance. Manifold's new software uses massively parallelized programming to execute general purpose computations within those parallel processing units for much faster performance than possible on the main CPU. Because of NVIDIA's success in consumer graphics markets, over 100 million NVIDIA GPUs have already been installed in computers throughout the world, ready to provide supercomputer speed to... (PR Newswire)
Virtualization for HPC: Critiques and challenges Mar 3, 2009
In place of legacy "heavy iron" HPC implementation a menu of distributed options that go beyond local clustering of commodity hardware is emerging: grid computing and the "cloud." Grid computing entails broadly distributed, networked parallel processing, where compute loads are subdivided and dispatched to hundreds or even thousands of compute nodes. An examples of a successful open grid project is , whose infrastructure supports scientific loads as diverse as the , to simulations of global... (Search Enterprise Linux)
Xtract Certifies Analytics Software on Latest Greenplum Database Release Feb 25, 2009
Supporting SQL and MapReduce parallel processing, Greenplum Database offers industry-leading performance at a low cost for companies managing terabytes to petabytes of data. Greenplum Database is used by major global organisations including NASDAQ, NYSE Euronext, Reliance Communications, Skype and Fox Interactive Media/MySpace. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Mind share shift from CPU to GPU, Intel to Nvidia? Feb 21, 2009
DirectX 11 will use the GPU for parallel processing. http://gizmodo. (CNET News)
TI unveils multi-core OMAP 4 Feb 18, 2009
Page 1 of 2 (02/16/2009 12:01 PM EST). BARCELONA, Spain Texas Instruments has expanded its popular OMAP mobile applications platform and processors, with the fourth generation set to be the first devices that use ARM's Cortex-A9 MPCores. (EETimes)
NVIDIA ION Certified Feb 12, 2009
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: development of more efficient or faster technology; adoption of the CPU for parallel processing; design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact of technological development and competition; changes in consumer preferences and demands; customer adoption of different standards or our competitor's products; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or... (IGN Gear)
