Thanks to those who visited us at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
At AAAS Microway exhibited NVIDIA based products including our WhisperStation- Tesla PSC and our 1U GPU Server. Demonstrations of a GPU-accelerated medical imaging application from our customers at Partners Healthcare and GPU-accelerated MATLAB were well received. One lucky researcher received an NVIDIA Quadro® 4000 GPU in our show drawing.
We are looking forward to seeing customers at the following conferences this spring:
Benchmarking hardware is as always available for you to remotely test configurations. We have Tesla, Opteron, and Xeon based systems for you to utilize, and we're still offering life science benchmarking with NVIDIA Tesla under the
GPU Test Drive Program.
Invitation to an NVIDIA Sponsored LIVE Lecture on March 3:
Key Algorithm Techniques for Heterogeneous Computing
Professor Wen-mei Hwu; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 3, 5-7PM Eastern, register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/292102539
Heterogeneous programmers will find this lecture extremely useful to help plan effective coding strategies. A short preview:
Modern computers are heterogeneous parallel computing systems with many
CPU and GPU cores. Application developers for these systems are reporting
10X-100X speedup over sequential code on traditional microprocessors.
Through careful analysis of application algorithms used in these
applications, we have identified eight major categories of algorithm
optimization techniques that are important to successful use of
heterogeneous computing systems. These techniques are scatter-to-gather
transformation, thread coarsening, tiling, input binning, compaction,
regularization, data layout, and privatization. Systematic understanding
of these techniques facilitates teaching GPU programming, developing
scalable algorithms, and creating useful tools. In this presentation, I
will give an overview of these algorithm techniques and how MulticoreWare
and the University of Illinois are jointly developing tools and new
scalable algorithms based on our insights into these techniques.
Tesla C2070 Promo: $400 off new orders
- Microway is offering a $400 discount on New Tesla C2070 Orders (MSRP $3,999)
- Orders receiving the discount must be placed before March 31, 2011
- If you have an existing quote, please contact your salesperson for a refresh
- Request a new quote or email sales@microway.com
Microway Extended Platinum Membership in the New 2011 Intel® Technology Provider Program
This Program supports the sales and marketing efforts of Intel partners that specify, design, build or resell Intel-based technology solutions. We are proud to be a Platinum partner in this prestigious group.
New SKUs of Intel Xeon 5600 Series CPUs Announced
High Performance Models at Faster Clocks:
- Xeon X5675: 6 cores at 3.06Ghz, 95W TDP
- Xeon X5687: 4 cores at 3.6Ghz, 130W TDP
- Xeon X5690: 6 cores at 3.46Ghz, 130W TDP
Six Cores at Four Core Pricing and Power Consumption with:
- Xeon E5645: 6 cores at 2.4Ghz, 80W TDP
- Xeon E5649: 6 cores at 2.53Ghz, 80W TDP
Higher Performance for AMD Opteron 12 and 8 Core CPUs
- Opteron 6180 SE: 12 cores at 2.5Ghz, 105W ACP
- Opteron 6176: 12 cores at 2.3Ghz, 80W ACP
- Opteron 6140: 8 cores at 2.6Ghz, 80W ACP
Preview: AMD's New Bulldozer Core Architecture
Specifics of AMD's next generation Bulldozer architecture were disclosed at the International Solid State Circuits Conference and they were very exciting. The publicly released information:
- New designs for the integer and floating point units unified in Bulldozer modules
- Expanded instruction set support: SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AES, and advanced Multiply-Add/Accumulate operations
- Up to four 64-bit instructions per thread in the new integer execution units
- A new 32nm production process
- Incorporation of the new "Turbo Core" feature
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