Today, Vertica announced the release of its new unified software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, Vertica Accelerator. With this, users get high-performance and scalable analytics as well as end-to-end, in-database machine learning to organizations that require the right level of resourcing, management, and control for each analytical use case. Vertica Accelerator operates on AWS public cloud infrastructure in … continue reading
The Go programming language has been updated to version 1.7, bringing with it many performance and compile-time speedups. A new compiler back-end has been added, based on static single-assignment form, and according to Google, this addition can bring speedups to applications ranging from 5% to 35%. The compiler improvements don’t end with actual application optimizations, … continue reading
AMD has announced an updated version of its tool suite designed to generate detailed information about the real-world performance of AMD’s CPUs, APUs and GPUs. CodeXL 1.6 aims to speed up applications running on the company’s processors. The latest version features GPU profiling capabilities, API-level debugging for OpenCL 2.0 apps, and a new tool that … continue reading
Rory Read is out; Dr. Lisa Su is in. AMD announced a shake-up at the top yesterday in a surprise announcement that CEO Read would be replaced by Su, formerly AMD’s COO. Despite the abruptness of the announcement, however, Read stated that he had been preparing a successor since he first began running AMD three … continue reading
Intel, Asus and AMD were among the device manufacturers to announce Windows and Android OSes coexisting on the same hardware … continue reading
Oracle OpenWorld is highlighted by the forthcoming cloud offering, while Java remains relatively static … continue reading
AMD’s ability to skate the line between netbooks and tablets puts it in a unique position to take advantage of both … continue reading
Forthcoming tools from AMD may help developers optimize their high-performance compute applications written in OpenCL … continue reading
AMD’s first developer conference since 2003 focuses on unifying the CPU and GPU without addressing separate memory spaces … continue reading
With the introduction of combo CPU/GPU chips next year, AMD is finally wooing software folks … continue reading
