How the Julia language is making it easy for programmers to use GPU capabilities... (more…)
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Research in high energy physics (HEP) requires huge amounts of computing and
storage, putting strong constraints on the code speed and resource usage. To
meet these requirements, a compiled high-performance language is typically
used; while for physicists... (more…)
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Put This In Your Pipe | In a [previous post](/blog/2012/03/shelling-out-sucks/), I talked about why (more…)
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If you have a large collection of data and have to do similar computations on each element, data parallelism is an easy way to speedup computation using multiple CPUs and machines as well as GPU(s). While this is not the only kind of parallelism, it cover... (more…)
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There’s a big difference between knowing how to follow a recipe and knowing how to cook. If you can master the first principles within a domain, you can see much further than those who are just following recipes. That’s what Julia Child, “The French Chef”... (more…)
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