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Parallel Computing News
- Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and
Starts a New Contest. Netflix, the movie rental
company, has decided its million-dollar-prize competition was such a good investment
that it is planning another one. The company's challenge, begun in October 2006,
was both geeky and formidable: come up with a recommendation software that could
do a better job accurately predicting the movies customers would like than Netflix's
in-house software, Cinematch. To qualify for the prize, entries had to be at least
10 percent better than Cinematch. (see
more)
- Nvidia's Fermi Architecture. Nvidia's
racing against ATi makes GPU getting more powerful than ever before. This 512-core
baby will have 10-100 times more processing power than Intel's i7. Nvidia's Cuda
programming environment is getting more and more friendly. But now the targeted
applications are still data-parallel in nature. I wish someday, I can use it to
write more general purpose applications. (see
more)
- Atom with dual-core and 4 threads. You
may never imagine that netbook CPU Atom is not dual-core with 4 concurrent threads.
Even a single core with 2 threads you can see some significant speed-up. Long live
parallelism! (see
more)
- Intel settles with the University of
Wisconsin MYSTERY SURROUNDS an out of court
settlement that the University of Wisconsin at Madison has made with Intel. The
university's patenting arm sued Chipzilla over technology used in Intel's Core 2
Duo Processor. According to the AP, the case was expected to go to trial yesterday
but both sides notified the court that they had reached a settlement. But no one
is saying what the agreement was because the terms were confidential (
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- Bill Dally Sees Central Role for the
GPU in Supercomputing. Before Bill Dally joined
NVIDIA as its chief scientist earlier this year, he had already enjoyed a long and
accomplished career in academia, first at Caltech, then MIT, and finally at Stanford
University. Along the way, he published over 200 research papers, and authored two
textbooks, and collected IEEE's Seymour Cray and ACM's Maurice Wilkes awards (see
more)
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