I had the pleasure of attending the NVIDIA Graphics Technology Conference ( GTC ) last week. Wonderful conference! If you have any doubts about the quality of the conference you are in luck. They have most of the content on-line, you can check it out yourself …
The Peak Mini NVIDIA Tesla edition –preview
The NVIDIA Tesla accelerator is a well established work-horse for many useful and important High Performance Computing applications and we are happy to be able to provide Tesla acceleration for our “Peak” systems. The developer ecosystem around CUDA is well established, however, at Puget Systems we believe there is new round of developer interest on the horizon that will be catalyzed by the soon to be released 6.x series of the CUDA platform, advances with openACC, new libraries, new hardware, and perhaps significantly, NVIDIA’s acquisition of The Portland Group and their excellent compilers and tools for working with Tesla. So, I’ve loaded up a Peak mini with a Tesla K40 and I’m ready to give Tesla programming a fresh look.
Xeon Phi Developers Starter Kit
If you are thinking about getting a system for doing development work targeting the Intel Xeon Phi and you hesitated because of the additional cost of the Intel developer tools you would need then, you should get a system with the “Xeon Phi developers starter kit”. The savings on the Intel tools can completely offset the cost of the base system. It’s a serious bargain!
Using RHEL / CentOS 6.5 with the Intel Xeon Phi
Can you use the new RHEL/CentOS 6.5 release with the Xeon Phi … yes! But, there is a gotcha that we will need to work around. Read on.
Taking a computer (not laptop) on a plane
Can you fly with a computer (not laptop) in your carry-on bag. Sure! With some restrictions of course…
Performance of Xeon Phi on PCIe X8
Will the Xeon Phi work in an X8 mode slot? If so, will the performance degrade? Yes and yes!
Why Xeon Phi on Windows is Important
Windows users don’t get a lot of love from the HPC community but, hey!, they have serious compute heavy programs to run too. … and they are desperate for performance!
Intel Xeon Phi with Windows!
Yes, you can use a Xeon Phi on a Windows system!
Top 5 Xeon Phi Misconceptions
Many people have heard about the Intel Xeon Phi by now but there is still a lot of misunderstanding about it. Here’s 5 of the misconceptions that I’ve heard mentioned when discussing the Xeon Phi.
More on motherboards (even mATX!) for Xeon Phi
Some more advice if you are looking at (or having trouble with) motherboards for the Xeon Phi.