Karl Rupp

yes, it is absolutely possible to switch between CUDA and OpenCL backends in ViennaCL at runtime. That's one of the strengths of ViennaCL over other libraries.

The reason why the Xeon Phi 7290 is listed with 272 cores is that the device is only really useful when using 4 threads per core. So even though the...

As long as KNL systems are used for production runs, the data should be kept. Once these systems are decommissioned, we will certainly know whether Xeon Phi has just been...

Thanks for pointing this out. The reason is that I intended to write a short blog post on the update, but never got around to do it... I'll leave the...

@codebent thanks for pointing this out. Yes, SPECint is only an approximation to single-core performance and somewhat biased. However, it is a standardized metric that can be compared across a...

@naibaf7 We had a detailed look at mobile GPUs over the summer. Our findings were fairly disappointing: Even with extensive code generation and autotuning we could not get anywhere close...