This week is the eighth annual International Workshop on OpenCL, SYCL, Vulkan, and SPIR-V, and the event is available online for the very first time in its history thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. …
The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing performance. …
Chip giant Intel has been talking about CPU-FPGA compute complexes for so long that it is hard to remember sometimes that its hybrid Xeon-Arria compute unit, which puts a Xeon server chip and a midrange FPGA into a single Xeon processor socket, is not shipping as a volume product. …
In high performance computing, machine learning, and a growing set of other application areas, accelerated, heterogeneous systems are becoming the norm. …
Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. …
Molecular dynamics codes have a wide range of uses across scientific research and represent a target base for a variety of accelerators and approaches, from GPUs to custom ASICs. …
Over the course of the last year in particular, particularly following Intel’s acquisition of FPGA maker, Altera, field programmable gate array have risen to the fore as a potential accelerator cure to performance and power walls across a much wider breadth of applications. …
It has been almost two months since Intel announced its blockbuster $16.7 billion deal to acquire FPGA maker Altera, which will allow the world’s largest chip maker to move from fixed function into programmable devices and potentially shake up the entire spectrum of computing, from handhelds all the way to datacenters. …
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