Intel Shelves Larrabee Project
Last month, Intel‘s Larrabee was the star of SC09 (Super Computing 2009, Portland, Oragon; November 14-20). During his keynote, holding a prototype unit of Larrabee, Intel’s CTO Justin Rattner asked,...
View ArticleAMD Ships Ultra High End Card, ATI FirePro V9800
Last month, just as Siggraph 2010 got underway, NVIDIA unleashed a series of Fermi-class Quadro cards. Now, a month later, it’s AMD‘s turn. With 4 GB frame buffer memory, ATI FirePro V9800 has twice...
View ArticleDesign a Toy, Win a Workstation
If you could design your very own cubicle toy, what will you come up with? Give it some thought, because your idea might win you a Dell Precision workstation with professional AMD FirePro graphics...
View ArticleShow and Tell: Your Playful Idea Could Win You a Dell Workstation with AMD...
A prank stapler that shoots projectiles, a motion-triggered device that plays the theme from Psycho, a miniature catapult that can be adjusted with an iPad — these are just a few of the ideas we’ve...
View ArticleDE Cubicle Toy Design Contest: We Have a Winner!
Earlier this week, we — the three judges — agonized over our upcoming decisions to pick one from the three worthy ideas we had before us: Jason Cox’s remote-controlled mouse, detailed in Google...
View ArticleDE Contest Winner Norwood: Life with a New Dell Precision Workstation with...
Mark Norwood from Norwood Designs, winner of DE‘s cubicle toy design contest, is no longer spending 18 hours rendering. Previously, he would hit “render” in his program, go to bed, then wake up to find...
View ArticleAMD Fusion Developer Summit: GPU is Not Just for Ninja Programmers
Skilled programmers who can sneak into the GPU and execute their parallel jobs belong to an elite group. They are “Ninja programmers,” as AMD corporate fellow Phil Rogers call them. Rogers, who...
View ArticleIntel Xeon Phi Enters Parallel Quest for HPC Dominance
Ever seen three thoroughbreds heading for the same finishing line, but running on different tracks? Watch AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA going after the high-performance computing (HPC) market. This week,...
View ArticleVMworld 2013, SF: Separating the Desktop from the Desk
If you appreciate irony like I do, you’d probably be amused by the thought of attending a virtualization conference in flesh. The latest trend in IT is to move the stack of hardware that used to sit in...
View ArticleTeradici and Dell Launch Software-Based Workstation Virtualization at...
Even if your Dell Precision workstation is physically miles away, you can reach for it and commandeer it remotely from the nearest windows tablet or PC. Today at SIGGRAPH (August 10-14, Vancouver),...
View ArticleJPR Virtualize 2015: How to Woo the Dedicated Workstation Users
The devout workstation users are the last stronghold that virtualization vendors have been trying to breach. Others — general consumers, knowledge workers, and enterprise software users — have already...
View ArticleSC15: Big Data Analysis and Cloud Deployment Bring Out Big Names
Supercomputing 2015 (SC15), the annual event dedicated to high performance computing (HPC), comes to Austin, Texas, this year. Harnessing the power of supercomputers was once a luxury confined to...
View ArticleAMD Takes Hardware Approach To GPU Virtualization
With virtualization now a staple of the data center, AMD is the latest player pushing the envelope for accelerated graphics capabilities, allowing engineers to finally reap the flexibility and cost...
View ArticleSIGGRAPH 2016: GPU Makers Target AR/VR Market
Now in its 43rd year, the SIGGRAPH conference last week brought graphics gurus, digital daredevils, 3D wizards, and pixel pushers to Anaheim, California. This year’s conference chair Mona Kasra from...
View ArticleAMD Rounds Out Ryzen Family for High Performance Computing
The AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and AMD Ryzen 3 1200 CPU come equipped with quad-core unlocked performance making them suitable for gaming and sophisticated computing applications, including 3D modeling,...
View ArticleDispatches from SIGGRAPH 2017: Increased Core Count and Decreased Pricing...
As the computer graphics fans started streaming into Los Angeles for SIGGRAPH 2017, AMD began releasing news about its Ryzen Threadripper product line, designed to challenge Intel’s dominance in...
View ArticleOverall GPU Shipment Up 7.2% from Last Quarter, Says JPR
Jon Peddie Research (JPR), an analyst firm that keeps a close tab on the graphics industry, has just released a new report on the GPU (graphics processing unit) market. “Year-to-year total GPU...
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