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Lucid takes GPU virtualization to the cloud and beyond
Feb. 3 | Intelligent real-time graphics flow can synchronize CPU and GPU output. By Jon Peddie Started in 2004 Lucid came out at CES 2011 and formally announced its GPU virtualization technology at the show. It then demonstrated it at CeBIT, in March 2011 and...
New benchmark brings testing standards to OpenCL
Feb. 2 | Rightware says Basemark CL will improve all applications using GPUs for general purpose computation. Last year the Khronos Group introduced OpenCL (Open Computing Language) an open, royalty-free standard for parallel programming of modern processors,...
Processing air traffic pattern predictions in real time
Jan. 23 | Optimal Synthesis got a 250x speed improvement by turning to Nvidia graphics processing units. Air traffic patterns generated by a NASA program now run 250x faster on an Nvidia GPU. (Source: Optimal Synthesis) A research firm in Silicon Valley is using...
MIT team invents cheap way to add 3D cameras to cellphones
Jan. 6 | A one-pixel pulse is tricked into decoding 3D data. Qualcomm is taking a close look. [Editor’s Note: A video explaining the technology in more detail appears at the end of the article.] “]Depth-sensing cameras can produce 'depth maps'...
The Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang roadshow visits China
Dec. 29 | Nvidia takes the message of supercomputing on the desktop to the world’s hungriest market for advanced technology. Kathleen Maher reports from Beijing, China. By Kathleen Maher [Editor’s note: A link to a YouTube video of Jen-Hsun Huang’s keynote...
Graphics is the common language at Siggraph Asia
Dec. 29 | Cutting-edge research replaced movie magic as the largest draw. JPR’s Kathleen Maher reports from Hong Kong. By Kathleen Maher Attendance to Siggraph Asia has been growing—not by leaps and bounds but by nice, reasonable increments. There is still...
Tablet prices in freefall reacting to Kindle Fire
Dec. 23 | Are the competitors now offering great bargains, or were the originals priced as rip offs? Amazon Kindle Fire (Source: Amazon.com) According to sources talking to channel retailers, several tablet PC players including RIM, HTC, Lenovo, and ViewSonic,...
JPR report: 80% of smartphones will have stereo 3D cameras and screens by 2015
Dec. 22 | A variety of vendors will compete for this rapidly growing space. Stereoscopic 3D in mobile devices will have many applications beyond gaming. Just as cameras and GPS became mainstays of mobile phones and tablets, Jon Peddie Research believes based on...
Quantum dot filter displays are the next big thing
Dec. 20 | Color purity and range have plateaued; new technology from Nanosys promises improvements. By Jon Peddie When LCD displays took over in the computer and TV industry they brought us thinness, less power consumption, and artificially lower prices, with restricted...
