My popular blog post on CPU, GPU and MIC Hardware Characteristics over Time has just received a major update, taking INTEL's Knights Landing and NVIDIA's Pascal architecture into account. Moreover, I added a comparison of FLOPs per clock cycle, which I want to discuss in slightly greater depth in this blog post. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Organizing a Conference: My Experiences from the PETSc User Meeting 2016
The PETSc User Meeting 2016 took place in Vienna, Austria, from June 28-30, 2016. Overall, the feedback received from the delegates was very positive; which I was glad to hear as main organizer of the event. In the following I want to share what I consider to be key factors for success and lessons learnt. Continue reading