Trash-talking CUDA

Found lurking on HPCWire.com, in an interview with Steve Wallach of Convey Computer:
…I call programs that don’t take into consideration legacy systems and that are obscenely difficult to integrate, “pornographic” programs — you can’t always describe them exactly, but you know them when you see them. In 1984, I converted a FORTRAN program from CDC [...]

Please pass the dot plots

In the past year there has been an increased level of skepticism regarding FPGAs as computing devices. Large amounts of ink of been spilled regarding the emergence of GPUs as general-purpose computing platforms. NVIDIA’s Tesla is racking up high benchmark scores in domains that include computational finance, scientific computing, geophysics and many others.
Nonetheless, there [...]