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Compiler Engineers Wanted!
If you are a talented software engineer who is passionate about open source and compilers, we would love to hear from you.
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Ding Dong LED on High
Embecosm’s staff got into the Christmas spirit with our entry into the Lymington Christmas Tree Festival. A tree festooned with glittery GNUs and Tuxes, a 3D printed star and 17 small computers
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48th HiPEAC Newsletter features article from Dan Gorringe & Jeremy Bennett
The 48th edition of the quarterly HiPEAC Newsletter features an article jointly authored by intern, Dan Gorringe, and Embecosm CEO, Dr Jeremy Bennett. Regular readers of this blog may have followed Dan’s adventures in low cost HPC, building and subsequently benchmarking a Beowulf cluster constructed from eminently affordable Pine64 boards.
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Report from SC16
I recently attended SC16 in Salt Lake City and here are some of my personal highlights. Energy Efficient Supercomputing (E2SC) Workshop Power utilization and over-provisioning I was particularly looking forward to E2SC. The session began with a keynote from Barry Rountree motivating open questions and challenges in this area. The talk discussed how existing HPC […]
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Video from Open for Business 2016
We are pleased to announce that the video from the Open for Business conference — which ran as part of the Wuthering Bytes technology festival back in September — is now online.
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Researchers are needed!
A guest post from Professor Elisabeth Oswald, University of Bristol: The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol is recruiting for applicants interested in all aspects of leakage aware cryptographic implementations: in particular in the area of utilising compilers (and/or language features) to help implement side channel resilient code. The Cryptography Group has […]
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Pine Cluster Performance
Over the summer of 2016 I created a Pine64 cluster for Embecosm, for use with their work on the TSERO project. To begin with I had a cluster of four boards and I used Linpack to benchmark my original quartet: their highest result was 5.7GFlops, which would have put them on the top500 until 1997. […]
Read moreWorld’s cheapest supercomputer?
First week of work and T Minus 1 week until Hartree HPC summer school with practically no knowledge of software programming, I used the time to learn C by completing Project Euler problems and then converting my serial programs to run in parallel. Some of these can be found here. On the following Saturday I made […]
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Open for Business 2016 is Next Month
OpenUK and the BCS Open Source Specialist Group are co-hosts of the annual Open for Business conference. This festival of open source in the business environment takes place just four weeks from now in Hebden Bridge on Monday 5th September. This year we are focusing on how to bring open source into your business, looking […]
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