parallel programming

GPU architectures and OpenCL: What's important and why? Seminar by David Black-Schaffer, Uppsala University

Date:  2010-02-17 - 2010-02-17
Time:  15:00— 16:00
Place:   SICS, room Knuth.

Abstract
Today everyone is positioning GPUs for general purpose computing. They claim that you can get 10-100x speedups over conventional CPUs, and sometimes they're even right....

"GPU architectures and OpenCL: What's important and why?" Seminar by David Black-Schaffer, Uppsala University.

NEW TIME! Wednesday February 17 at 15:00 in room Knuth.

Abstract
Today everyone is positioning GPUs for general purpose computing. They claim that you can get 10-100x speedups over conventional CPUs, and sometimes they're even right....

Wool - a C library for fine grained independent task parallelism

With the widespread adoption of multicore and manycore processors comes the need for parallel software. One of the most promising parallel programming models is independent task parallelism (ITP)....

Become a member (Swedish Multicore Initiative)

Benefits of being a member

The most important benefit of being a member in the initiative is information exhcange, networking opportunities and the possibility to influence. The initiative has newsletters, forums and a wiki page (under construction) where members can exchange information....

Join the Multicore Revolution

Date:  2008-10-24 - 2008-10-24
Time:  16:00— 19:00
Place:   SICS

A meeting between researchers and students to present the background and challenges of Multicore technology and discuss degree projects.

 See: http://web.it.kth.se/~matsbror/multicore

Kista Multicore Center

The Kista Multicore Center explores all aspects of the multicore revoultion, with an initial emphasis on programming models for multicore and manycore processors. KMC is a joint initiative of SICS, KTH...

Multicore Day August 31

The Multicore Day 2007 was very successful! The program included representatives for Swedish and international industry and academia and featured Dr. Marc Tremblay (CTO Microelectronics Sun Microsystems), Dr....