News tagged with parallel programming

NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform

(PhysOrg.com) -- This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Language barrier: To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need fundamentally new software

For decades, computer scientists tried to develop software that could automatically turn a conventional computer program -- a long sequence of instructions intended to be executed in order -- into a parallel ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Stanford parallel programming course available online for free

Through a new course posted online for free, the Stanford School of Engineering and NVIDIA Corp. will give a big boost to programmers who want to take advantage of the substantial processing power of the graphics processing ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Parallel course: Researchers help ease transition to parallel programming

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz -- a 30-fold increase. And ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 10




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NASA preparing to launch NuSTAR, its newest X-ray eyes

(Phys.org) -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Friendly Fungi: Elucidating the fungal biosynthesis of stipitatic acid

(Phys.org) -- In a tale worthy of Sherlock Holmes, scientists in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, UK have solved a biochemical mystery that had previously proven elusive for 70 years: ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow

(Phys.org) -- A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River today (Wednesday, May 9) in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The smartphone-equipped ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robots learn to pick up oddly shaped objects

(Phys.org) -- When Cornell engineers developed a new type of robot hand that could pick up oddly shaped objects it presented a challenge: It was easy for a human operator to choose the best place to take h ...

Electronics / Robotics

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Social Security's IT system could benefit by joining the cloud, scientist says

The Social Security Administration (SSA) should restructure its already massive information technology (IT) systems so they can be readily scaled up, much like the systems used by Google and Amazon, William L. Scherlis, professor ...

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Darpa seeks technology to see through clouds for warfighter support

Advanced, flyable electronics and scene simulation technology sought for video synthetic aperture radar

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stream temperatures don't parallel warming climate trend

A new analysis of streams in the western United States with long-term monitoring programs has found that despite a general increase in air temperatures over the past several decades, streams are not necessarily warming at ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

DARPA seeks non-thermal approaches to thin-film deposition

When the Department of Defense (DoD) wants to build a jet engine, it doesn’t put a team of engineers in a hangar with a block of metal and some chisels.  Jet engines are made up of individual components ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

History is key factor in plant disease, study finds

(Phys.org) -- The virulence of plant-borne diseases depends on not just the particular strain of a pathogen, but on where the pathogen has been before landing in its host, according to a new study from researchers ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imposing trade restrictions on parallel imports can motivate a firm to export, study finds

(Phys.org) -- Imposing trade restrictions on parallel imports has the surprising effect of motivating a firm to export, according to a new study using game theory economic analysis.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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