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Parents should be allowed to make informed choices over infant bed-sharing, says child sleep expert
Parents should be given more information and be encouraged to make informed choices to minimise the risks of infant bed-sharing, a child sleep expert has said.
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Brain frontal lobes not sole centre of human intelligence
Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain’s frontal lobes, say researchers.
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Museum find proves exotic ‘big cat’ prowled British countryside a century ago
The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum’s underground storeroom proves that a non-native ‘big cat’ prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century.
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New fracking research led by Durham University finds it is “not significant” in causing earthquakes
A new study of hundreds of thousands of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) operations has found that the process has only caused earth tremors that could be felt on the surface in three cases.
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Algorithms for high-performance computing on modern shared-memory parallel architectures, e.g. multi-cores and GPUs
For the past five years, computers have become faster only by becoming more parallel: Any standard desktop PC now has at least four cores and a GPU with a hundred more. Future architectures, such as the Intel MIC, are set to follow that trend.
In order to exploit this new massive shard-memory parallelism for High-Performance Computing applications, new algorithms and/or programming approaches are needed. In this talk, I will present a simple yet powerful problem-independent parallelization scheme and discuss its application to both multi-core and GPU architectures. The take-home messages from this talk are firstly that good parallelization is not difficult and relies heavily on the problem formulation, and secondly that GPU programming is not as different from regular multi-core programming as many may think it is.
Contact ioannis.ivrissimtzis@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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