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Could Snow Leopard leave Windows 7 eating it's dust?

Could Snow Leopard leave Windows 7 eating it's dust?Cut down on the caffeine:)LOL...Is this that baby off the e-trade commercials? You must have stock in MSFT? Any good inside information?I'm not so sure ...Look at how Adobe has embraced the GPU, and Wolfram.Leveraging the GPU has a lot...

Tags: Operating systems, DirectX 11, GPGPU, OpenCL, GPU, dust, Microsoft Windows 7, Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

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AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology

AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...

Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards

No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...

Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

SiSoftware Sandra 2009.SP4 (Windows)

SiSoftware Sandra is a 32- and 64-bit client/server Windows system analyzer that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules. It tries to go beyond other utilities to show you more of what is really going on under the hood so you draw comparisons at both a high and low-level in a...

Tags: Client-server, SiSoftware, SiSoftware Sandra, Microsoft Windows, Chipsets, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-08-19

30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?

I really don't see the need...Unless you're a hard core gamer or work heavily in the graphics dept...RE: 30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?Mine has two. And how do you get the little quote box thing? I've been looking to get that on mine for...

Tags: Desktops, Games, GPU, desktop, graphics, Jon Peddie, game

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it

A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants itWasn't an earlier version of an On2 codec released as open source which morphed into Theora?Unless you are talking 2X reduction or better at the same "quality" we need fewer codecs, not more.It could still be copmtetition for AdobeReplace Flash on...

Tags: Corporate communications, On2 Technologies, codec, H.264, video, Google Inc., Google Wants

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

What really new in Windows 7? The answer, not much!

What really new in Windows 7? The answer, not much!Y'know, I disagreeI understand Adrian's need to attract eyeballs and taking a deflationist view of Win7 in a world of gushing praise will no doubt help attract a lot of hits. HOWEVER, I think the wrong questions were asked.Instead of judging...

Tags: Operating systems, Well XP, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Apple vs. Microsoft: Yet another upgrade pricing fiasco

Apple vs. Microsoft: Yet another upgrade pricing fiascoPlus OS X is complete OS for one price.Not only is the price for the various Win 7 crippleware still outrageous compared to OS X, but with OS X you get the entire OS for that much lower price. It's a double-strike against...

Tags: Pricing, Operating systems, Vista-to-7, Win 7, pricing fiasco, service pack, Snow Leopard, Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Multi-Dimensional Characterization of Temporal Data Mining on Graphics Processors

Through the algorithmic design patterns of data parallelism and task parallelism, the Graphics Processing Unit GPU offers the potential to vastly accelerate discovery and innovation across a multitude of disciplines. For example, the exponential growth in data volume now presents an obstacle for high-throughput data mining in fields such as...

Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Processor, Characterization, Graphics, GPU, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-05-01

PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?

The second day of the PPoPP 2009 conference started with a controversial keynote by Yale Patt from the University of Texas at Austin. It was so controversial, for me at least, that I decided to wait a few days to calm down before writing about it. He had three main...

Tags: Software, Hardware, Programmer, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Could Snow Leopard leave Windows 7 eating its dust?

Today has been an interesting day for those interested in GPGPU General Purpose computing on the GPU, and Apple's support for this technology could mean that the next incarnation of Snow Leopard could leave Windows 7 eating its dust. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, GPU, OpenCL, Benefits, Human Resources, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Intel Larrabee - Will it be AMD/ATI or NVIDIA that gets squeezed the most?

Intel Larrabee - Will it be AMD/ATI or NVIDIA that gets squeezed the most?Intel will have to prove their metal...in the video arena. I find it hard to believe they can cut it there.Definitely nVidia.AMD has their own platform in terms of processor and GPU. nVidia does not....

Tags: Chipsets, Intel Graphics, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Intel Larrabee, AMD/ATi

Discussion threads 2008-08-04