We're proud to continue and improve on two benchmarking and code acceleration programs for GPUs.
Abstract: With the 2x in 4 Weeks promotion, NVIDIA and PGI intend to demonstrate that almost anyone can succeed. The new OpenACC directives standard allows the compiler to accelerate code without a complete rewrite or digging into CUDA. Your application can be running twice as fast (or more) with less than a month of work. And if you register with Microway, you can have easy access to our 8 GPU Tesla SimCluster to recompile your application for GPUs and see the speedup! This post will walk you through the process.
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Microway's Tech Team recommends two notable HPC resources and articles:
Excerpt: There comes a time in a network or storage administrator's career when a large collection of storage volumes needs to be pooled together and distributed within a clustered or multiple client network, while maintaining high performance with little to no bottlenecks when accessing the same files. That is where Lustre comes into the picture. The Lustre filesystem is a high-performance distributed filesystem intended for larger network and high-availability environments.
Excerpt: Just a few years ago, video cards were designed solely for accelerating special applications. To perform such precise, generic calculations, programmers had to dig deep into their box of tricks and take a roundabout route to achieve their aims. For example, a scientist who wanted to add two large matrices could interpret them as textures with OpenGL, position them one in front of the other, and make the front half transparent. The rendered result is a texture that can then be interpreted as the resulting matrix. Although this might sound like a fairly simple addition, you will soon hit limits if you start to multiply or introduce loops, jumps, or conditions...
OpenCL now provides a cross-platform standard for creating heterogeneous, parallel programs for CPUs, GPUs, and other processors. The presence of the OpenCL standard makes it possible to perform generic calculations on the GPU independently of the platform and manufacturer.
For more information, see http://hpc.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Parallel-Programming-with-OpenCLMicroway is growing, and we're looking to hire for two positions. Click through to the full listings for more information:
Sales Engineer - Help HPC work better for scientists and researchers worldwide! Well spoken techie will advise our clients on design and implementation of GPU and cluster solutions for their specific needs.
Integration/Tech Support - Integrate, test, and assist supporting the latest HPC clusters and WhisperStations - work with bleeding edge technologies! Our systems incorporate Intel and AMD processors, NVIDIA GPUs, storage, InfiniBand, graphics and Linux software. Knowledge of server hardware, parallel processing, parallel programming (use of MPI, OpenMP) and computer architecture is highly desirable.
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