gpucomputing.net

I just saw this website.

http://gpucomputing.net/

There is not much there yet. A competing website to gpgpu.org?

Multi-core and Many-core

http://hi.baidu.com/liquidrainbow/blog/item/8b3db82a01f9f2f0e7cd404b.html

Interesting article about multi-core and many-core (in Chinese).

nVidia GPU Computing tools

I saw this from CNN: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0559840.htm

Rich Standards-Based Tools and Libraries Develop Around CUDA Architecture

CUDA Toolkit 3.0 Beta: With the CUDA Toolkit 3.0 Beta, developers can start developing applications today for the NVIDIA Fermi architecture. This beta release includes features such as ECC reporting, Dual DMA Engine, Concurrent Kernel Execution and NVIDIA Fermi HW debugging support [...]

GPUGrid.net

Today I saw this GPU grid computing for computational molecular biology website. It is very interesting.

http://www.gpugrid.net/index.php

ORNL’s Jaguar Named World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

I saw this news but I am wondering why it is not using nVidia GPU. I suspect next year will see a Fermi-based super computer.

 

http://news.download3000.com/ornls-jaguar-named-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer/

According to the TOP500 Organization that publishes the list of the top supercomputers, the Oak Bridge National Laboratory, or ORNL, has the world’s most powerful supercomputer model based on GPU. The [...]

SHIMMER and BioMOBIUS: A Health Research Platform

http://www.ddj.com/embedded/221700058

The combination of the BioMOBIUS and SHIMMER platforms lets researchers rapidly develop research tools — and open source is the key.

 

VMD 1.8.7, Now with CUDA Acceleration

http://www.vizworld.com/2009/08/vmd-1-8-7-now-with-cuda-acceleration/?utm_source=footer&utm_medium=relatedlinks&utm_campaign=layout

One of the key advancements included in VMD 1.8.7 is support for GPU accelerated visualization and analysis, based on NVIDIA CUDA. As reported in several publications, the massively parallel architecture of GPUs makes them ideal devices to accelerate many of the computationally demanding calculations in VMD. The range of acceleration provided by GPUs depends on [...]

NVIDIA To Demo Working “Fermi” GPU at SC09

http://geeksmack.net/hardware/808-nvidia-to-demo-working-fermi-gpu-at-sc09.html

NVIDIA finally has a working sample of their up-coming “Fermi”, or “GT300”, Platform, and ready to show off at SC09 (Super Computer Convention) on Tuesday. If you happen to be there, NVIDIA will be showcasing the new flagship GPU at booth #2365. NVIDIA is also expected to show-off it’s CUDA muscles with next-generation HPC platforms.

NVIDIA’s [...]

Tycrid Forms Prometheus Alliance to Expand Use of GPUs in Bioinformatics

http://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/tycrid-forms-prometheus-alliance-expand-use-gpus-bioinformatics

Tycrid Platform Technologies, a startup founded last year to develop high-performance computing systems based on graphics cards, has launched the Prometheus Alliance — a membership organization focused on promoting new high performance computing solutions in bioinformatics.

The organization’s website does not indicate that the alliance currently has members other than Tycrid.

According to Prometheus Alliance’s mission statement, [...]

IBM Releases OpenCL Drivers for POWER6 and Cell/B.E.

http://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/ibm-releases-opencl-drivers-for-power6-and-cell-b.e/

IBM announced the release of alpha level OpenCL drivers for POWER6 and Cell/B.E. Linux systems through its alphaWorks ‘Emerging technologies’ program. The OpenCL Development Kit for Linux on Power is an IBM implementation of the OpenCL Specification, Version 1.0. This implementation is for Power hardware running the Linux operating system and has been tested on [...]