Here’s a humorous new marketing video from AMD pushing their AMD FirePro cards. They tackle the “unnamed Green-colored Vendor” as being overpriced, power-hungry, and less effective (4 monitors on 2 cards, vs 6 monitors on 1). It’s funny if not entirely accurate, but it’s marketing fluff, so who cares if it’s 100% accurate right? 90% is good enough.
I do have to wonder why NVidia sells Quadro’s for $5k.
Update 6/2 10am: Looks like AMD pulled it down, or at least marked it “Private”. No indication on why…
InsideHPC has a new video podcast online interviewing Stace Hipperson of Real Status, and a demonstration of their IT visualization system “HyperGlance”.
In this video, Real Status co-founder & CTO Stace Hipperson demonstrates HyperGlance, a powerful software package that uses sophisticated graphics and modelling techniques to create real-time models of complete IT infrastructures in 3D and overlays performance and business metrics.
It looks pretty impressive for at-a-glance visualization of a computer network that could be pretty powerful for large datacenters, and I like the deep exploration tools they’ve integrated. It’s an interesting look at visualization from the Business Manager/CTO side of things, folks that are more interested in “overviews” than deep details. See the video below.
Our daily roundup starts with Focus‘ look at one of the most emblematic companies in tech history: Cisco. Also with its place guaranteed in the revolutionary companies pantheon, Skype’s history is analyzed by Online MBA, and, speaking of history, Mindflash and Retail Me Not help us to know a bit more about some of the tech moguls, and their path to fame and money. To close, an overview of what happened in this year’s Google I/O, provided by Vida MRR.
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