It was launched as a beta programme in December 2012 Intel has launched the software development kit (SDK) for Open CL Applications XE 2013 integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows and Linux. Aimed at supporting the firm's ...
Ninety per cent of passwords are vulnerable to hacking because even supposedly secure passwords typically share common characteristics. Because people are required to generate so many passwords with particular characteristics - at least ...
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The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) will upgrade its supercomputer with Nvidia graphics processors so the system can more accurately predict the weather in the Swiss Alps. By upgrading the Cray XC30 system, the CSCS wants to ...
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Jordan - the country, not the model - has unveiled a 25-teraflop supercomputer based on Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware. The IMAN1 computer had its first public outing at the MENA ICT Forum in Amman last week, unveiled by Zaid Abudayeh, ...
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IDG News Service - Nvidia is taking video games into the cloud with a new rack server optimized for computer graphics. The server works in combination with software in a client device and holds the promise of delivering high-quality ...
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New processors from AMD and Intel will provide the horsepower for next generation desktop applications, that could previously only run on specialist workstations. Integrated chips used to be the poor cousins of dedicated systems. PC ...
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Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code. It has long since become something of a development mashup. It's where you go to tackle any task in the development process, regardless ...
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Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis,Amazon Web Services(AWS)has introduced a storage package,called High Storage,that can offer fast access to large amounts of data. High Storage,an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)package,is ...
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Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices yesterday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. Nvidia announced GPUs (graphics processing units) called K20 and K20X, with the latter being used in Titan, a 20-petaflop ...
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AMD AppZone Player, which is powered by BlueStacks' technology, brings Android apps to the AMD-powered tablets, notebooks, all-in-one and desktop PCs worldwide Semiconductor firm AMD has launched its AppZone, an online destination for ...
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The HSA Foundation is established to define and promote an open, standards-based approach to heterogeneous computing Technology firms AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek and Texas Instruments (TI) have came together to form a non ...
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The incorporation of Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) into the new GPU increases its performance by 50%. ARM has launched new Mali-T600 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) which are expected to enhance the user experience ...
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The new line of GPUs will offer a 50% boost in performance compared to first generation Mali-T600 products UK-based chip licensor ARM has introduced its second generation of Mali-T600 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) which will ...
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Taipei, Dec. 5, 2012 (CENS)--Industry executives have regarded an Nvidia executive's statement in a recent interview with a South Korean newspaper as the company's inclination to contract Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) as its ...
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The U.S.Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system,a Cray XK7,has been anointed as the world's fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest ...
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