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- Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?
- Nvidia unveiled its next-generation graphics processing unit GPU architecture, dubbed Fermi, and announced a key supercomputing win with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The takeaway: Graphics and visualization are becoming key to scientific discoveries. And Nvidia could be a major player. Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used...
- Tags: Supercomputer, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Supercomputing, GPU, Fermi, Oak Ridge, CNET News, JMP Securities Alex Gauna, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPU
- Intel's forthcoming multi-core Larrabee graphics processing unit GPU promises a chip "with comparable performance to GPUs on the market at that time." The upcoming chip has raises the hackles of fierce GPU competitors ATI and NVIDIA. NVIDIA PR sent me an email with "a couple of things...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., CPU, Graphics, Intel Corp., GPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer.... i believe the link is wrongnice article. i think its a fantastic achievement by IBM. but i believe the link you supplied to the best article you found on roadrunner is incorrect as it merely links back to your own blog posting....And it runs..All...
- Tags: Processors, OpenCL, Cell, Sony PlayStation 3, processor, PS3 chip powers world, chip, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- nVIDIA+to+acquire+AGEIA+Technologies
- nVIDIA+to+acquire+AGEIA+TechnologiesI don't think you quite get itGood article about "what happens to AMD, NVidia, etc if this acquisition..." but, seriously, questioning the direction of physics and dependency on Microsoft to make it happen? This tells me you don;t quite the significance of physics in gaming.I'll boil...
- Tags: Games, Video cards, DirectX 10, DirectX, game, card, video card, NVidia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- From Brief: 2
- This is the second excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The board Member's IT brief. From 1.2.1: The consequences of culture There's a simple bottom line to the difference between science based computing and data processing - one that ties directly to the biggest silent...
- Tags: Wintel, Client-server, Staffing, PC, Information Technology, Environment, Data, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp., Mainframes, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Electronics and Circuit Analysis Quick Study Guide. FREE first chapter in the trial (Mobile)
- Boost Your grades with this illustrated quick-study guide. You will use it from an undergraduate school all the way to graduate school and beyond. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Search for the...
- Tags: Diode, Mobile, Electronics, Amplifier, Modulation, Analysis, Semiconductors, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-07-24
- Intel readies massive multicore processors
- Intel readies massive multicore processorsApplicability: Top 5...PleaseThis is a great milestone for chip development. However, what's the "payoff"? What do you do with a chip that has 80-96 processing cores? It challenging now with the possibility of 8 and 16.I'm not saying that this work is irrelevant...
- Tags: Processors, Borkar, Polaris, processor, Intel Corp., FP MAC, memory, multi-core processor
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- Blu-Ray's boat anchor
- Blu-Ray's boat anchorConsumers are reluctantOnly the wealthy are going to early adopt Blu-Ray or HD DVD standalone devices. They are far to expensive.I don't think it is a concern of the consumer if one format or the other will fail. It is just to expensive to bother with...
- Tags: Game players, HD DVD, DVD, Games, Consumer electronics, Nintendo Wii, HD-DVD Drive, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 2, Blueray
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- How to get 66.6 TeraFlops for $600
- Certain specialized compute-intensive tasks have long been coded to take advantage of vendor math libraries and special hardware vector acceleration. Now there are new techniques that can be used to utilize the massively parallel graphics processing unit GPU found in modern high-end 3D video cards originally designed for gaming. ...
- Tags: General, Programming, Games, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Tera-Scale: What Would We Do with All These Cores and How Would We Feed Them?
- Tera-Scale: What Would We Do with All These Cores and How Would We Feed Them?A few notes . . ."To create that user experience, we have to go from 6 hours per frame to 124th of a second per frame"Why 1/124th? 30 frames/sec is a decent framerate, last I heard,...
- Tags: Games, PRODUCTIVITY, Borkar, game, Polaris, FP MAC, computer, memory, animation
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- …80 isn’t nearly enough
- What an exciting week this has been. We unleashed the ‘Era of Tera’ by showcasing the world’s first programmable processor that can deliver Teraflops performance with remarkable energy efficiency. It’s rather extraordinary that after decades of single core processors, the high volume processor industry has gone from single to dual...
- Tags: General, Hardware, Supercomputing, 80-core
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- Who's afraid of parallelism?
- Who's afraid of parallelism?Good theoretical modelIf by "theory" you mean "modern mainstream programming languages" then I agree that there is no "theoretical" model for parallel computing. Except for SQL, which can be automatically parallelized.However, anything designed around a nondeterministic finite automata would be inherently parallel for most problems, and...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Programming languages, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Cray Inc., parallelism, SDK, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- In marriage of 'CPUs and GPUs,' ATI snapped-up by AMD. Is NVidia next?
- In marriage of 'CPUs and GPUs,' ATI snapped-up by AMD. Is NVidia next?Monolithic is the way to go!Combining CPU/s and GPU's et al. onto a single monolithic wafer into a single monolithic processing chip has many obvious advantages including:- Lower chip production and end product costs.- Fewer pins and therefore a...
- Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Network technology, Games, Processors, Monolithic, GPU, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., chip, chipset, CPU, NVidia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-24
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 8.241.1.0 (Windows)
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1300: ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 goes beyond integrated UMA graphics on thin-and-light notebook PCs, enabling 3D gaming, high quality video playback, and longer battery life. Accelerate graphics performance with the dedicated 90-nanometer process Graphics Processing Unit GPU and ultra-threaded 3D architecture, enhanced with a ring-bus memory controller...
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Software downloads 2006-03-24
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 8.241.1.0 (Windows)
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1300: ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 goes beyond integrated UMA graphics on thin-and-light notebook PCs, enabling 3D gaming, high quality video playback, and longer battery life. Accelerate graphics performance with the dedicated 90-nanometer process Graphics Processing Unit GPU and ultra-threaded 3D architecture, enhanced with a ring-bus memory controller...
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Software downloads 2006-03-24
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 8.25.0.0 (Windows)
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1400: ATI’s Mobility RadeonX1400 provides best-in-class graphics performance for thin-and-light notebooks, delivering enhanced 3D gaming, high quality video playback, and longer battery life. Boost graphics performance with the dedicated 90-nanometer process Graphics Processing Unit GPU with an ultra-threaded 3D architecture, ring-bus memory controller, and a native 16x...
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Software downloads 2006-03-06
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 8.25.0.0 (Windows)
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1400: ATI’s Mobility RadeonX1400 provides best-in-class graphics performance for thin-and-light notebooks, delivering enhanced 3D gaming, high quality video playback, and longer battery life. Boost graphics performance with the dedicated 90-nanometer process Graphics Processing Unit GPU with an ultra-threaded 3D architecture, ring-bus memory controller, and a native 16x...
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Software downloads 2006-03-06
- PlayStation 3 component prices: Why so high?
- PlayStation 3 component prices: Why so high?does PS3 run Linux??If it does I might get one.Does high price equal high quality?I hope the high price is justified. I don't want my disks being scratched like in the 360, or the power supply setting on fire like the Xbox. Though I...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Sony Playstation, Sony Corp., game, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-23
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 8.231.0.0 (Windows)
- ATI Mobility Radeon X1300: ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 goes beyond integrated UMA graphics on thin-and-light notebook PCs, enabling 3D gaming, high quality video playback, and longer battery life. Accelerate graphics performance with the dedicated 90-nanometer process Graphics Processing Unit GPU and ultra-threaded 3D architecture, enhanced with a ring-bus memory controller...
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Software downloads 2006-02-21
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