Beyond3D Featured ContentNew: Primer on Computational Architecture Trade-Offs
Advanced discussions of computer architecture are often still constrained to generic processors and serial computations. And yet, there is so much more. This article hopes to serve as a primer to help explore both classic and exotic architectures in the coming months, right here on Beyond3D.
Ahead announced support for NVIDIA's CUDA in Nero's Move it application today at CeBIT. The encoder is targetted at people wanting to create AV for mobile devices like the PSP, iPhone and T-Mobile G1, and for low-def online use on places like YouTube, but it can also do Full HD…
Real World Technologies have taken an in-depth look at NVIDIA GT200, to get to the bottom of how it does the job of pushing everything but pixels.
The track notes from the Beyond Programmable Shading course at SIGGRAPH this year are now available.
Another year, another Tesla. So, what's new? What does performance look like when only the shader core matters? And does the FP64 implementation make any sense? We touch on this and much more in the first part of our Tesla coverage... [more on Tesla & RV770 within the next few…
AMD have announced a new FireStream product based on their upcoming RV770 GPU, with some seriously impressive single and double precision peak rates.
French website PC INpact broke the news of an upcoming GPU-accelerated supercomputer, ordered by France's CEA for delivery in early 2009 from Bull. The cluster's performance confirms that GT200 will be rated at 1TFlop and that Nehalem/Bloomfield will clock up to at least 3GHz.
Something we missed with the Thanksgiving holiday last week is that
NVIDIA has publicly released the next beta version of its CUDA GPGPU
platform, which adds G92 support, performance profiling, and more
language features among other improvements.
AMD has announced the RV670-based FireStream 9170 GPGPU processor as well as the FireStream SDK. Notable are 2GB of RAM, a 775-800 MHz core clock, 500 GFLOP/s, and Brook+ (based on Brook, obviously!) as the official high-level language.
ClearSpeed, a parallel computing company based in the UK and a direct competitor to GPGPU, seems to be giving up on its current strategy: following revenue of only £0.5M in 2008 and losses of £10.4M, the CEO has resigned and our info tells us that nearly all remaining staff are being laid off
After a relatively short public beta period, NVIDIA have gone gold with 2.0 of CUDA, their C-based programming environment for their recent graphics processors.
In these last two parts of our Tesla coverage, we quickly interview Andy Keane as we look at the adoption & deployment aspects of GPGPU, and then we look into real-world CUDA applications and the related financial and competitive aspects in-depth...
The Khronos Group, an organised collection of interested parties that collaborate to push and develop open standards for certain classes of computing, have announced what they call the Heterogeneous Computing Initiative.
A couple of companies producing software solutions that target the GPU and CPU for general purpose programming acceleration have announced partnerships with AMD.
Stanford University, with assistance from AMD, have released a version of the Folding@Home client application for discrete R6-family ATI GPUs, from R600 all the way to RV670.
Professor Vijay Pande, director of Stanford's Folding@home project, has blogged that his team is demoing a new GUI and new GPU client at SuperComputing 2007.