Archive for March, 2007

March 1st

Using Sequential Programming Models to Program Manycore Systems

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...

Archive for February, 2007

February 27th

Promise and Perils

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

Reinventing Computing for the Multicore Inflection Point

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

NYTimes Article on Intel Teraflop project mentions View

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/technology/12chip.html?ref=business

Slashdotted

The View project gets exposure on Slashdot. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/10/2014255
February 2nd

Memory Instructions for Manycore

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...

Speculative Multithreading and Manycore

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...

Archive for January, 2007

January 31st

Colloquium video posted

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

Parallel programming project recognized as a Winner in IEEE Spectrum's Best and Worst Tech Projects for 2007

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...

Archive for December, 2006

December 18th

White Paper Posted

The long awaited View white paper has been posted as a tech report !
December 4th

Azul Vega2

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...

Archive for November, 2006

November 10th

SiCortex Unveils

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

Nvidia GeForce 8800

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

Multithreading and Games

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

LCPC keynote

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...

Archive for October, 2006

October 24th

New Dwarves Added

New Dwarf descriptions have been added on the wiki. Check out the new dwarf mine !

Archive for September, 2006

September 19th

Peakstream

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...