Computing links
Processors
- Intel's webpages on its Core i7 and Xeon E5 chips, AVX instruction set and MIC processor
- Wikipedia articles on Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and MIC chips
- AnandTech articles on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge chips
- NVIDIA's GeForce and Tesla GPUs
- Wikipedia articles on NVIDIA's GeForce 500, GeForce 600 and Tesla GPUs
- NVIDIA's Project Denver to add ARM cores to a GPU
- The Register article on new ARMv8 architecture
- AnandTech article on new ARM Mali-T658 GPU
Memory
- Articles on IBM/Micron 3D memory in The Register and HPC Wire
- More novel technology for the future from Micron
Interconnect
- Infiniband switches from Mellanox and QLogic and a Wikipedia article on Infiniband
- Electronics Weekly article on new Ethernet switch startup Gnodal
- Wikipedia article on PCIe bus for graphics cards
Supercomputers
- TOP 500 supercomputers
- Titan: future 10-20 Petaflop Oak Ridge supercomputer with 19,000 NVIDIA Kepler GPUs
- Blue Waters: future 5 Petaflop NCSA Cray supercomputer with 3,000 NVIDIA Kepler GPUs
- Stampede: future 10 Petaflop supercomputer in Texas with Intel MIC processors
- K computer: Fujitsu system with 68,544 Sparc processors
- Tianhe-1A: Chinese system with 7,168 NVIDIA Fermi GPUs
- Tsubame 2 at Tokyo Institute of Technology has 4,200 NVIDIA Fermi GPUs in dense HP GPU servers
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CINECA-PLX: Italian system with 548 Fermi GPUs
- US Keeneland system with 360 Fermi GPUs
- Mont Blanc: Barcelona Supercomputing Centre project based on ARM and NVIDIA chips
Small GPU systems
- Tesla starter kit: HP-NVIDIA GPU rack unit
- Supermicro GPU servers
- Preconfigured GPU cluster from Boston/SuperMicro, reported in HPCWire
Microservers
- The Register articles on microservers from Dell, Supermicro and Applied Micro
- Dell microserver
- Supermicro microserver
- Project Moonshot: HP unit with ARM processors
Software
- NVIDIA's CUDA and OpenCL
- AMD's OpenCL
- PGI's CUDA FORTRAN and CUDA-x86 compilers
- Intel's OpenCL, compilers and Math Kernel Library
- Intel's Array Building Blocks, Thread Building Blocks and AVX Intrinsics
- OpenMP and OpenACC
- MPI and OpenMPI (open-source MPI library)
Websites
Other links
- Bill Dally talk on "A Path to Pervasive Parallelism"
- Steve Keckler talk on "GPU Computing and the Road to Extreme-Scale Parallel Systems"
- Report on Exascale Research: Preparing for the Post-Moore Era