Intel® Released the Xeon® Phi™ Processor (MIC)

Intel® have just introduced their Xeon® Phi™ processor to the market, targeting HPC and scientific computing. It is available for purchase and integration into existing systems/platforms/servers.

The new co-processor is a discrete device that runs an operating system of its own and functions as a fully functional computer (though being a co-processor).

Why should anyone be interested in Xeon® Phi™?

It is based on the most common x86 architecture, therefore porting existing code and algorithms should be the easiest possible.
One may also utilize OpenCL™ algorithms to take advantage of the high-parallelism of the Phi™ processor.

In addition, it features 60 cores, 8GB of internal memory (with 320 GB/s) and uses PCIe x16 slot to provide high performance bandwidth throughput.
With almost 1 TFLOPS of double precision, Phi™ is competent to very high end GPUs in the market today, but on some aspects, provides better performance and industrial matching than other vendors.

You can read more at:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-phi-detail.html

Contact us for more details and projects regarding Intel® Xeon® Phi™ family of processors.

OpenCL.NET Released

Hello everyone,

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of OpenCL.NET for the public.
This library provides a .NET implementation and wrapping of the OpenCL interface for GPU computing (and general computing as well).

Currently, the library supports revision 1.0.43 of Khronos (being the latest version of the standard).

Users may test the library with NVIDIA released drivers for OpenCL, or on other architectures as OpenCL should be supported on (Intel, AMD CPU etc.).

The API in this release was adapted to be cross platform in mind, and code, using the new SizeT construct for transparent handling of 32/64 bit platforms.

In addition, there is only one version of the library conforming to all operating systems who support OpenCL, regardless of Windows, Linux or Mac.

For any question, request, bug report or else, please contact us at: support@cass-hpc.com.

We hope you will find this library useful.