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Mar 16, 2016
Intel Marrying FPGA, Beefy Broadwell for Open Compute Future
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: computing, futurism
For those who read here often, there are clear signs that the FPGA is set to become a compelling acceleration story over the next few years.
From the relatively recent Intel acquisition of Altera by chip giant Intel, to less talked-about advancements on the programming front (OpenCL progress, advancements in both hardware and software from FPGA competitor to Intel/Altera, Xilinx) and of course, consistent competition for the compute acceleration market from GPUs, which dominate the coprocessor market for now.
Last week at the Open Compute Summit we finally got a glimpse of one of the many ways FPGAs might fit into the hyperscale ecosystem (along with other future hardware insight) with an announcement that Intel will be working on future OCP designs featuring an integrated FPGA and Xeon chip. Unlike what many expected, the CPU mate will not be a Xeon D, but rather a proper Broadwell EP. As seen below, this appears to be a 15-core part (Intel did not confirm, but their diagram makes counting rather easy) matched with the Altera Arria 10 GX FPGAs.
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Mar 13, 2016
Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself
Posted by Alexandros El in category: futurism
A team of programmers has built a self-generating cosmos, and even they don’t know what’s hiding in its vast reaches.
Every particle in the universe is accounted for. The precise shape and position of every blade of grass on every planet has been calculated. Every snowflake and every raindrop has been numbered. On the screen before us, mountains rise sharply and erode into gently rolling hills, before finally subsiding into desert. Millions of years pass in an instant.
Here, in a dim room half an hour south of London, a tribe of programmers sit bowed at their computers, creating a vast digital cosmos. Or rather, through the science of procedural generation, they are making a program that allows a universe to create itself.
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Mar 11, 2016
Floating Villas With Underwater Rooms In Dubai
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Mar 11, 2016
I’m leaving Rackspace to join Upload VR — By Robert Scoble
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: futurism, virtual reality
Mar 10, 2016
Microfluidics: DARPA is betting embedded water droplets could cool next-gen chips
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, futurism
More urgency placed on making Microfluidics/ embedded H2O droplets for cooling microchips so that the emergence of high performing microchips coming in the future.
DARPA and Lockheed Martin have a plan to build microfluidic cooling into modern microprocessors. This could dramatically improve CPU cooling and break the bottleneck on clock speed scaling — at least, for a little while.
Mar 10, 2016
Electroceuticals: The Future of Medicine
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
More news from DARPA’s Electrical Rx efforts along with GSK’s own advancement.
In the future, doctors won’t treat diseases with drugs. Instead, they’ll use tiny implantable devices that communicate with our body’s electrical language.
Mar 10, 2016
Terra Bella and Planet Labs’s Most Consequential Year Yet
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: futurism
Thanks to a small group of Silicon Valley’s satellite startups, we may never look at our planet again the same way.