nCore at the Multicore Expo in Silicon Valley

April 2010 – nCore’s Managing Director Ian Lintault will speak at the Multicore Expo running concurrently with the Silicon Valley Embedded Systems Conference, April 26th-29th. Please join us for an interesting and informative talk on multicore strategies for organizational preparedness.

ME805: Are You Ready for Multicore?
4/28/10 16:00 – 16:45
“Much attention has been paid to the technical side of multicore migration and optimization. However, as a software development leader, your organization’s readiness and ability to migrate products to multicore directly impacts the success of such efforts. This talk outlines strategies for determining organizational readiness in a technical context. As a take away, you’ll be able to perform a self-assessment that uses checklist discipline.”

Lintault will also chair the roundtable panel on sliver bullet parallel solutions:

ME767: Panel: Parallelization Strategies – Finding the silver bullet
4/27/10 15:00 – 15:45
“There will NEVER be a ’silver bullet’ to save programmers from the complexities of multicore — at least that’s what industry experts believe. With regards to tools to parallelize application programs, the programmer will almost always be faced with a tedious process. This will be true whether porting legacy code to an SMP architecture or developing new code targeted for a heterogeneous SoC, and it applies to both HPC and embedded. However, this is not to say that all hope should be lost, as there are many tool developers working diligently to solve some of the problems. This panel of experts will provide their insight into the state-of-the-art in commercially viable solutions for parallelization to take advantage of multicore”

Based on the success of the NCT-100 Programming Multicore Processors training course released in June, nCore Design is offering an instructor-led, hands-on GPU programming course. nCore joined the Multicore Association in August and will be at SuperComputing ‘09 in November.

Beaverton, OR (PRWEB) Sept 30, 2009 – Following the success of the NCT-100 Programming Multicore Processors training course, nCore Design announces the immediate availability of the NCT-300 Programming GPU Processors course. Responding to feedback from students who took the multicore programming course, nCore has created a comprehensive GPU programming class. Conceived with the experienced C/C++ programmer in mind, NCT-300 covers concepts and approaches related to programming GPU processors using both CUDA and OpenCL.

“The response to the first multicore programming class was overwhelmingly positive. We asked the attendees what other multicore technologies they would be interested in. The consensus was to have a thorough introductory course on developing software for GPU processors,” said Ian Lintault, Managing Director at nCore Design.

The course covers GPU hardware, memories, data transport, CUDA and OpenCL APIs, programming methods and performance optimization. It will enable students to understand the fundamental aspects of GPU programming and become proficient in a relatively short time. Extensive hands-on laboratories demonstrate how to apply common numerical methods using both native APIs and open source libraries. Other topics covered in the course include integrating the Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) abstraction layer with native GPU software APIs in addition to a GPU debugging primer. To get more details download the class brochure here: NCT-300 Programming GPU Processors Brochure

The course is 4 days and the cost is $3400/person. To register, schedule an on-site session or contact nCore Design, go to http://www.ncoredesign.com/company/contact_us/

Connect with nCore on Twitter: @ncoredesign

Visit nCore Design November 14-20 at Supercomputing ’09 in Portland, Oregon at booth 2539.

About nCore Design

nCore Design LLC develops high performance software and systems for multicore microprocessors, GPUs and embedded systems. nCore has significant expertise on wide variety of computing platforms and specialized knowledge of applied software optimization techniques. nCore is a leading provider of hands-on, instructor-led training courses focused on programming multicore and GPU processors.

nCore Design is a Multicore Programming Practices (MPP) working group member of The Multicore Association

Founded in 2007, nCore Design is a privately held company with offices in the US and Japan. nCore works with local partners to deliver state-of-the-art solutions to multinational technology companies. To learn more about how nCore Design solutions can contribute to your success, call 971-228-0700.

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