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NVIDIA’s Visual Computing Appliance: high-end virtual graphics power on tap

By tim, on March 20th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has announced the Grid Visual Computing Appliance (VCA). Install one of these, and users anywhere on the network can run graphically-demanding applications on their Mac, PC or tablet. The Grid VCA is based on remote graphics technology announced at last year’s GPU Technology Conference. This year’s event is currently under way

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Intel Xeon Phi shines vs NVidia GPU accelerators in Ohio State University tests

By tim, on March 18th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Which is better for massively parallel computing, a GPU accelerator board from NVidia, or Intel’s new Xeon Phi? On the eve of NVidia’s GPU Technology Conference comes a paper which Intel will enjoy. Erik Sauley, Kamer Kayay, and Umit V. C atalyurek from the Ohio State University have issued a paper with performance comparisons between

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Images of Eurora, the world’s greenest supercomputer

By tim, on January 31st, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday I was in Bologna for the press launch of Eurora at Cineca, a non-profit consortium of universities and other public bodies. The claim is that Eurora is the world’s greenest supercomputer.

Eurora is a prototype deployment of Aurora Tigon, made by Eurotech. It is a hybrid supercomputer, with 128 CPUs supplemented by 128

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The disruption of pay as you go hardware – and I do not mean leasing

By tim, on December 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Last week Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke at a “Fireside Chat” with AWS (Amazon Web Services) chief Werner Vogels. It was an excellent and inspirational performance from Bezos.

If there was a common theme, it was his belief in the merit of low margins, which of necessity keep a business efficient. Low margins

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Windows 8 launches: key questions remain, but Surface shines

By tim, on October 25th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I am in New York for the launch of Windows 8. This morning was the general launch; the Surface RT launch is to follow this afternoon. Windows chief Steven Sinofsky introduced the event. I was intrigued by how dismissive he was about a key Windows 8 issue: the learning challenge it presents to new users.

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Gadget Writing: some posts you may have missed

By tim, on September 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

There are two sites at ITWriting.com and if you follow the RSS feed for this one you may have missed the posts at the other. This site covers software development and IT admin topics, while Gadget Writing covers mobile devices, audio, general software tips and reviews, and in general has a more consumer flavour.

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Windows Phone 8 “Apollo”: Windows 8 kernel, more form factors

By tim, on February 2nd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s partner ecosystem is vulnerable to leaks, as demonstrated today by reports of a video said to have been made for Nokia, which arrived in the hands of a smartphone review website. The leaked information was corroborated by Windows journalist Paul Thurrott who has received advance information independently from Microsoft, but under non-disclosure:

Thanks to

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On Supercomputers, China’s Tianhe-1A in particular, and why you should think twice before going to see one

By tim, on December 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I am just back from Beijing courtesy of Nvidia; I attended the GPU Technology conference and also got to see not one but two supercomputers: Mole-8.5 in Beijing and Tianhe-1A in Tianjin, a coach ride away.

Mole-8.5 is currently at no. 21 and Tianhe-1A at no. 2 on the top 500 list of the world’s

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NVIDIA plans to merge CPU and GPU – eventually

By tim, on December 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dr Steve Scott, NVIDIA’s CTO for Tesla, at the end of the GPU Technology Conference which has just finished here in Beijing. In the closing session, Scott talked about the future of NVIDIA’s GPU computing chips. NVIDIA releases a new generation of graphics chips every two years:

2008 Tesla 2010 Fermi 2012

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Sanity prevails at HP which is keeping its PC division

By tim, on October 27th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

HP has announced that HP is keeping its Personal Systems Group, its PC division.

“HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees,” said Meg Whitman, HP president

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