For years, rumors have been circulating that graphics developer Nvidia might start making its own x86-compatible systems—perhaps not for mainstream computers (at first), but for high-end graphics ...

If you’re wondering which was the most popular color option on the 1970 Barracuda, the answer is as simple as it could be: Rallye Red. More than 5,700 units, or over 11 percent of the total production ...

This isn’t a review, but given the popularity of my last CUDA book review, I thought I’d mention that Addison-Wesley has published a new book called CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ — The Portland Group®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and a leading supplier of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), ...

CUDA. Performance increases. GPUs. NVIDIA. Tesla Compute Cluster. Somehow or another, all of those are interconnected in NVIDIA's latest announcement, in which they have revealed Parallel Nsight ...

The word supercomputer gets thrown around quite a bit. The original Cray-1, for example, operated at about 150 MIPS and had about eight megabytes of memory. A modern Intel i7 CPU can hit almost ...

While AMD has long-held decent marketshare in the consumer space, the high performance compute segment has long alluded the graphics firm. With the announcement of the so-called Boltzmann Initiative ...

When Nvidia first showed off its Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) parallel computing platform in 2006, it was a multibillion-dollar bet that failed to turn a profit for a decade. Today, it ...