At GDC, Nvidia and Microsoft made a joint announcement about the possibility of doing real time ray tracing, something the CG community has striven for since ray tracing was popularized by Turner Whitted in 1979. Whitted did it on big computers at Bell Labs, just before the PC was introduced. Since then, scores of papers and books have been written … Read more
Using AI techniques, and powerful processor
Major versions of SPECviewperf and SPECwpc (to be renamed SPECworkstation) are on tap for Q2 of this year. SPECviewperf 13 will feature new volume visualization viewsets for energy and medical applications, radically new shaders, and updated viewsets to match more recent versions of the applications on which they are based. SPECworkstation 3.0 will include new GPU performance measurement, completely redesigned … Read more
Expanded SPECworkstation benchmark slated for Q2
More of a computing device than a graphics processor now? Khronos has just released version 1.1 of its high-performance GPU API, Vulkan. The heir apparent to OpenGL, and OpenGL ES, this thin and light API exposes the many features and benefits of a modern GPU like no other API and takes it into the GPU compute domain with a new … Read more
Nanometer processors used for petawhopper computers to keep your lights on Last week, Italian energy company Eni’s took the lead in supercomputers with the launch of its latest petawhopper, the HPC4. At 18.6 petaflops (peak) the new cluster becomes the world’s most powerful commercial system and quadruples the company’s computing capacity to an aggregate peak performance of 22.4 petaflops. According … Read more
That’s Big-format gaming display if you were wondering Acer, Asus, and HP have taken AU optronics panels and made 65-inch large format 4k HDR gaming monitors, with 120Hz refresh rates 1,000-nit peak luminance and DCI-P3 color gamut. and Nvidia’s G-Sync technology. Acer showed its 65-inch Predator Big Format Gaming Display with Nvidia G-SYNC at CES, introducing big screens to PC … Read more
At CES the major processor companies all claimed partnerships with car makers – the same car makers. Our friends at Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and a few others are in the automotive market, and they have one thing in common—the same partners. If you can’t show at least a dozen car companies as your partners, then just go home, you’re not … Read more
TIBURON, CA – January 2, 2018 – Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today released its latest quarterly report on the Visual Processing Unit (VPU) market. The major interest and activity in the market for Vision Processing Units (VPUs) continues to center on neural networks, both in terms of advances in the … Read more
32-bit is so Windows 95 In a no frills, no hoopla, in an a very un-Nvidia like fashion, the company announced that after Release 390, Nvidia will no longer release drivers for 32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture. The company is currently shipping WHQL driver version 388.71 which suggests there will be a few more 32-bit drivers before the … Read more
Special report from Jon Peddie Research
Supplement to Q3’17 Market Watch Jon Peddie Research estimates that Crypto-currency mining accounts for $1.05 billion dollars in AIB revenue since Q1’15, and accounts for sales of 4.6 million AIBs. Ethereum and Bitcoin, are among the best known crypto currencies but many more have appeared in the market. Some have already come and gone. Bitcoin arrived in 2009 and set … Read more
