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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made a number of announcements at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) keynote yesterday, including an updated roadmap for both desktop and mobile GPUs. Although the focus of the GTC is on high-performance computing using Tesla GPU accelerator boards, Huang’s announcements were not limited to that area but also covered the …continue reading Big GPU news at NVIDIA tech conference including first Tegra with CUDA Microsoft has launched a “Keep the cash” offer to developers. Publish up to 20 apps, 10 for Windows Phone and 10 for Windows 8, and get $100 for each of them. The offer is little use for most of the world. The terms state that “Offer good only to legal residents of the 50 …continue reading Microsoft’s Windows 8 app problem will not be solved by incentivising junk 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 …continue reading Intel Xeon Phi shines vs NVidia GPU accelerators in Ohio State University tests Now we know why Microsoft has been so reluctant to divulge details of how to deploy a business app that uses the Windows Runtime (also known as Metro apps or Windows Store apps; though in this case the Windows Store app designation is particularly silly since these apps are precisely not Store apps). Presuming Windows …continue reading Internal Windows Runtime apps are prohibitively expensive to deploy, says Microsoft Regional Director Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missingMobile World Congress, now under way in Barcelona, is a big event. Exact numbers are not available, but I have heard talk of 70,000 trade attendees; it is not something you can safely ignore if you have a presence in the mobile industry. Nevertheless Apple chooses to ignore it, preferring its own exclusive events. …continue reading Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missing Following my piece on different approaches to building the user interface in cross-platform frameworks, twitter user Sam Hogarth pointed me to the PropertyCross project. This implements a non-trivial application in 8 different cross-platform tools, covering Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Note that only four of the frameworks support Windows Phone. Using the pie charts presented …continue reading Cross-platform frameworks ordered by percentage of shared code Xamarin has announced significant updates to its developer platform. Xamarin is the company formed around 18 months ago, when Novell discontinued its investment in Mono, a cross-platform implementation of C# and the .NET Framework. Its focus is on mobile platforms, in particular iOS and Android, though there is also support for the Mac. On Windows …continue reading Xamarin 2.0 and Xamarin Studio announced, build for OSX, iOS and Android with C# The Eclipse Foundation has announced a new working group, called LocationTech. What is it? There is only one project currently, called LocationTech Technology. Here is what it covers: LTT projects provide artifacts such as libraries, user interfaces, and methodology logic that enable location aware applications and services. The nature of this work is scoped as …continue reading LocationTech: a new Eclipse working group for location technologies |
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