FireUser has just posted the final piece in a multi-part series on the use of Remote Graphics in profressional environments. In it is focuses mostly on AMD’s offerings, but does a good job of showing where remote graphics can shine and where it tends to fall down.
“The real question is not if you should replace all of your high end workstations, but rather to examine when and where it makes economic and performance sense. For the true CAD power user, remote graphics is not there yet in terms of matching performance with a dedicated local workstation with a top-of-the-line FirePro or Quadro-based graphics card.
We continue with our special Daily Viz from Visual Loop selection of Steve Jobs retrospectives, published by several sites from all over the world. Our picks for today include interactive visualizations and infographics provided by El Nacional (Venezuela), Evo App, ismashphone, El Espectador (Colombia) and Young&Rubicam (Argentina).
The folks behind Unigine have an amazing new demonstration video available on YouTube showing their engine rendering an impressive mountain valley scene full of rocks and trees. Showing both beautiful vistas and amazing detail in individual plants, they’re really raising the bar on game graphics.
ORNL is making a play to take back the #1 spot on the Top 500 with another upgrade to their Jaguar frankenputer, I mean supercomputer. Already part Cray XT4 and part XT5, the new “wing” will be XK6 systems running with NVidia GPU’s. The initial parts will be Tesla M2090′s, but then later parts will be based on the new Kepler design. The final system is designed to hold 18,000 GPU’s.
“Oak Ridge’s decision to base Titan on Tesla GPUs underscores the growing belief that GPU-based heterogeneous computing is the best approach to reach exascale computing levels within the next decade,” said Steve Scott, chief technology officer of Tesla products at NVIDIA, referring to computing performance levels of 1,000 petaflops. ”The Tesla GPUs will provide over 85 percent of the peak performance of Titan. You simply can’t get this level of performance in a power- and cost-efficient way with CPUs alone.”
I’ve personally come to believe that adding GPU’s to HPC’s is a short-term solution to a bigger problem. Until we can come up with some operating systems and better tools for programming these behemoths, the major hindrance will be the development cycle.
After Apple’s official statement, almost every news site came up with some visual representation of Steve Jobs impact on the company, from its foundation to the recent uprise as the number one tech company in the world. For the next two days, we’ll be showing some of those timelines, mostly interactive, and again, from several corners of the globe. Today, the works of Fox News, La Informacion, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The New York Times.
FireUser has just posted the final piece in a multi-part series on the use of Remote Graphics in profressional environments. In it is focuses mostly on AMD’s offerings, but does a good job of showing where remote graphics can shine and where it tends to fall down.
We continue with our special Daily Viz from Visual Loop selection of Steve Jobs retrospectives, published by several sites from all over the world. Our picks for today include interactive visualizations and infographics provided by 
ORNL is making a play to take back the #1 spot on the Top 500 with another upgrade to their Jaguar frankenputer, I mean supercomputer. Already 
After Apple’s official statement, almost every news site came up with some visual representation of Steve Jobs impact on the company, from its foundation to the recent uprise as the number one tech company in the world. For the next two days, we’ll be showing some of those timelines, mostly interactive, and again, from several corners of the globe. Today, the works of 
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