March 1st
Wen-mei Hwu from University of Illinois presented an Keynote Talk at this year's IEEE MICRO-39 conference. He takes the the position that sequential programming models are the best approach to...
February 27th
CTWatch Quarterly, an online journal covering trends in high-performance computing technology, has dedicated its most recent issue to the
"Coming Multicore Revolution" . It discusses issues...
February 26th
Burton Smith (Microsoft) will be giving a talk on reinventing computing for multicore for the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing general membership meeting (March 6 in Long Beach, CA)....
February 12th
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/technology/12chip.html?ref=business
The View project gets exposure on Slashdot.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/10/2014255
February 2nd
Steven Ericsson-Zenith responds to Dave's presentation at Stanford:
I enjoyed your lecture yesterday (I am one of the transputer/occam architects and spoke to you at the end).
I have...
Andy Glew has a lot of interesting things to say in response to Dave's presentation at Stanford this week:
I enjoyed watching your Stanford EE380 talk today. I actually agree
with most of...
January 31st
Video from the colloquium talk presented by Dave Patterson is now posted. It also includes a Q&A with Kurt Keutzer and Krste Asanovic.
http://netshow01.eecs.berkeley.edu/Colloquia/170107.wmv
January 26th
Rapidmind , a startup based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, was named a winner in the software category in January, 2007 issue of IEEE Spectrum . The company develops a platform that helps...
December 18th
The long awaited View white paper has been posted as a tech report !
December 4th
Azul Systems announced their second generation machine today, which is designed for highly threaded Java workloads. Each of their Vega2 chips has 48 simple cores, arranged in 6 clusters of 8...
November 10th
SiCortex went public this week with its custom MIPS HPC cluster-in-a-cabinet. I couldn't help but smile when I read this line from one of their white papers: "Contrary to conventional wisdom, high...
November 8th
Today is a big day in the GPU world, since Nvidia's releasing a brand new architecture! This one's sometimes referred to as G80, which will be productized into various shapes and sizes of GPU in...
November 7th
Anandtech put up an interesting article today covering "Hardware Day" at Valve Software, makers of some popular games like Half-Life & Counter Strike.
Evidently the event was all about taking...
November 5th
I just gave the keynote talk "The Berkeley View: A New Framework and a New Platform for Parallel Research" (powerpoint) at the The 19th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for...
October 24th
New Dwarf descriptions have been added on the wiki. Check out the new dwarf mine !
September 19th
Peakstream is a startup attempting to provide a stream programming environment suitable for programming multicore CPUs, GPUs and also the CELL processor. Applications are written in C++ and make...