Posted by gstoner on May 14, 2013 in Newsflash with no comments
It’s time we dealt with the measurement of compute performance in GPUs. In another in a series of ARM blogs intended to enlighten and reduce the amount of confusion in the graphics industry, I’d like to cover the issue of Floating-point Operations Per Second (FLOPS, or GFLOPS or TFLOPS).
In the past, Tom Olson talked about triangles per second (“the chocolate teapot of graphics…
Posted by gstoner on March 18, 2013 in Developer News, Frontpage, Newsflash, Press Release Archive with no comments
Tensilica Joins HSA Foundation to Help Establish Standards for Embedded Heterogeneous Computing
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 19, 2013 –Tensilica®, Inc today announced that it has joined the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation, a not-for-profit consortium dedicated to developing architecture specifications that will unlock the performance and power efficiency…
Posted by gstoner on December 21, 2012 in Developer News, Newsflash, Press Release Archive with no comments
Looking back at the last six month we have had exceptional acceptance of the bring HSA forward truly as standard. We are now at 22 companies and 5 academic members with still more coming in 2013.
It was just a little over year ago when I stepped into AMD to see how we could move HSA beyond a vision Phil Rogers and his team had at AMD to becoming a Industry Standard that truly scaled from…
Posted by gstoner on November 27, 2012 in Developer News, Newsflash with no comments
Great Article on GPU Science on HSA Foundation based on Moor Insights and Strategy White Paper.
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Moor Insights and Strategy was commissioned by the AMD to produce a report “Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA): Purpose and Outlook”.
The HSA (Heterogeneous System…
Posted by gstoner on November 14, 2012 in Newsflash with no comments
We welcome CEVA and Tensilica to the HSA Foundation. They both add a new dimension to the Foundation, as leaders in acceleration solution for mobile, networking, automotive and digital home. We look forward to having CEVA and Tensilica in conjunction with Qualcomm and TI this truly branches HSA into another acceleration domain with support of non-GPU comput…
Posted by gstoner on October 30, 2012 in Newsflash with no comments
Sensor Integration and Improved User Experiences at Even Lower Power – HSA
Speaker: Phil Rogers
HSA Foundation President and AMD Corporate Fellow, AMD
Phil Rogers is an AMD Corporate Fellow and President of the HSA Foundation. At AMD, Phil is the lead architect for the Heterogeneous System Architecture, focused on drastically reducing the power consumed when running modern applications, and…
Posted by gstoner on October 11, 2012 in Newsflash with no comments
When we hear the term “multiprocessing,” we often associate it with “symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).” This is because of SMP’s initial prevalence in the high-performance computing world, and now in x86/x64 servers and PCs. However, it’s been known for years that SMP’s ability to scale performance as the number of cores increases is poor. (For more information on SMP’s inability…
Posted by gstoner on October 4, 2012 in Developer News, Latest, Newsflash with no comments
Posted by gstoner on August 31, 2012 in Newsflash with no comments
Arteris Joins Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) Foundation, Contributing NoC Interconnect Expertise
Network-on-chip pioneer’s protocol-agnostic technology and experience to help accelerate creation and adoption of standardized heterogeneous programming model
SUNNYVALE, California – August 31, 2012 – Arteris Inc., the inventor and leading supplier of network-on-chip (NoC)…
Posted by gstoner on August 30, 2012 in Newsflash with no comments
Reminder if your at IFA 2012 to go see HSA Foundation President to Deliver Opening Day Keynote. See Phil Rogers, HSA Foundation President and AMD Corporate Fellow, reveal the next era of computing innovation –
Phil Rogers is one of two featured keynote speakers on opening day of IFA 2012, Friday, Aug. 31. Phil’s keynote titled, “The Next Era of Computing Innovation,” will examin…