Mentor Blogs

Having recently made another posting on High Performance Computing, I was quite surprised to receive a guest post from my colleague Pete Decher, who is HPC Business Development Manager at Mentor Embedded. Apart from providing tools and IP for embedded software development, the Mentor Embedded team have a lot of history and experience of contributions to the open source community and the definition of … Read More

HPC, Object Management Group, OMG, VSIPL++

My colleague Faheem Sheikh recently attended the 2012 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC ‘12) at Waltham, MA USA. It would seem surprising, on the surface, that such an event would be of interest to specialists in embedded software. However, Mentor Embedded’s HPC Library products, like Sourcery VSIPL++ play very well in this space and illustrate how the scope of embedded … Read More

HPEC, MATLAB, VSIPL++

Two weeks ago, I posted a guest blog from my Colleague Brooks Moses, who was getting ready for a conference, where he was presenting a paper. That event is now done and Brooks is back with his impressions of of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference … I’m writing this on the evening after the last day of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, wondering how a single event can be so … Read More

GPU, GTC, Nvidia, VSIPL++

This week, I am please to introduce a guest blogger. My colleague Brooks Moses is getting ready for a conference: Colin has graciously let me use this space to tell you about the things I’m doing to get ready for my presentation at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference on May 15th. So, hello! … Now, wait a minute, you’re probably wondering; what are we doing talking about GPUs? … Read More

GPU, GTC, Nvidia, VSIPL++

Another guest appearance this week. My colleague Faheem Sheikh is a member of the Mentor Embedded engineering team. He wanted to share his ideas about embedded software performance optimization … ‘Present’, ‘head’ and ‘court’ do not seem related at first sight. Do they? But these words have one attribute in common. They can take on multiple meanings depending … Read More

MEPL, VSIPL++, HPC