Atom Observations

I just put a post up about my experiences with a new Intel Atom + NVIDIA Ion2 system on my homepage: http://www.stephenjenks.com/2010/10/atom-observations/

Since it isn't Asymmetric computing, I won't repeat it here, but take a look at the link if you are interested. (Hint: you won't be putting Atoms in your cluster anytime soon if you do floating point.)

Cheap GPU Computing may be over

For those of us interested in GPU computing, Greg Pfister has written an interesting article entitled "Nvidia-based Cheap Supercomputing Coming to an End" commenting on the future of NVIDIA's supercomputing technology that has been subsidized by gamers and commodity GPUs. It looks like Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture may end that.

If you don't read Greg Pfister's Perils of Parallel blog, you should. He's been doing parallel computing for a long time and is very good at exposing the pitfalls and hidden costs of parallelism.

A year later

Well, it has been a year since my last post on here. A lot has happened since then:

I have left UCI to become Chief Scientist at Hiperwall Inc. (http://www.hiperwall.com), where we make tiled display wall software. We are just about to release a new and greatly enhanced software version, which is both exciting and tiring, with all the testing and last minute tweaks.

I have moved most of my research material from the old UCI server to my personal site (http://www.stephenjenks.com), though it isn't fully organized yet. That is where I'll be updating things, so please bookmark that and keep watching.

I'm not done with Asymmetric Computing, as we use it for various things in Hiperwall, so I will continue to explore when I have time. For the moment, however, I'm learning how to program the iPhone and iPad, because I have fun plans for them.