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COMPUTERS/PERIPHERALS

NVIDIA & AMD Boost GPU Computing Once strictly a gaming chip, the graphics processing unit is poised to serve high-performance computing needs. by Peter Varhol Almost since its inception, one of the major hallmarks of desktop computing has been the quest for ever-faster, smoother, and more realistic graphics processing and display. Obsolete names such as Hercules and Number Nine are part of the history and folklore of this quest for faster and more realistic graphics. Today, fast graphics are primarily the province of NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) and ATI as part of AMD (Sunnyvale, CA). Any serious gamer, design engineer, or simulation specialist knows which graphics cards are best for their applications. But a funny thing happened in the drive to build better and faster graphics processors.
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The advantages of systems from Fusion-IO, RocketDisk, Sun, and Texas Memory are many, but full integration is still a few years off.

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The parallel programming toolkit enables engineering code to effectively use whatever processors and cores are available.

by David Cohn

HP’s new Nehalem processor-based workstation gets a completely new design and yields record-setting performance.

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