| NVIDIA nTeresting News 11-June-2010 |
| Written by NVIDIA - Brian Burke | ||
| Friday, 11 June 2010 | ||
NVIDIA nTeresting News 11-June-2010In this Issue:
Alienware M11x + Optimus = Love for Laptop UsersLaunched earlier this year just hours apart and to glorious reviews, the only knock suffered by the Alienware M11x and NVIDIA Optimus was not having each other. "For all these benefits, however, there is one thing that the laptop cannot do but would that boost battery life even further and enhance convenience. While it can switch between integrated and discrete graphics, the Alienware M11x doesn't do so automatically because it was launched prior to NVIDIA's release of the Optimus technology. To bring this final performance and convenience enhancement to its $700 machine, Dell will reportedly introduce a new version of the Alienware M11x, with new Intel CPUs and Optimus, in summer." Now, in the tradition of great summer romances like Danny and Sandy and Noah and Allie, NVIDIA Optimus and Alienware M11x have finally found each other.
"In our review of the Alienware M11x, we loved just about everything with the system, but wished that it came with NVIDIA's Optimus technology that let it switch between integrated and Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display. NVIDIA Optimus technology and Alienware M11x were destined for each other from the start. Ain't love grand? NVIDIA Takes Cosmonauts to the Red PlanetThe "Mars-500" project, part of Russia's federal space program, aims to replicate the conditions of a manned flight to Mars. "The Russian programmers will design a 3D model of Mars for the participants the Mars -500 simulation of a flight to the Red Planet, which began in Moscow on June 3." On June 3rd, six cosmonauts started spending 520 days in a hermetically sealed environment which simulates the isolation, confinement and communication delays of interplanetary flight. Scientists monitoring the international team of crew members (which includes Russian, French, Italian and Chinese cosmonauts) are hoping to learn whether such a journey is physiologically and psychologically possible. During their experimental ‘flight', each crew member is equipped with a notebook PC based on NVIDIA 3D Vision technology to help the cosmonauts immerse themselves in a virtual Martian reality. Today, we have a 3D Vision ecosystem that is very robust and growing. The 3D Vision ecosystem includes 425 games, photo viewers for Fuji and Sony cameras, Blu-ray 3D players and Web streaming with Microsoft Silverlight technology. NVIDIA has invested in stereoscopic 3D for 5 years to deliver the highest quality, full resolution experience. For display choice, 3D quality and 3D content compatibility, 3D Vision is clearly superior. GeForce GTX 465 Hits the StreetsGeForce GTX 465 GPUs, based on the NVIDIA GF100 architecture, bring the GTX 400 family down to sub-$300 (USD), making it more affordable for gamers to experience next generation gaming. GTX 465 was a hard launch with immediate e-tail availability on May 31st. "Why the Zotac GTX465 ? Because it has every feature included inside, including OpenGL4.0 support, DirectX11, and the latest in 3D Technology..... And if you are waiting for a board to get introduced to GTX400 series you can get without having to spend too much money, no doubt you have it there." GeForce GTX 400 GPUs were designed from the ground up for tessellation, the most important feature of DX11. With up to 8x the raw tessellation performance of the competition, GTX 400 GPUs are true tessellation monsters. The new GTX 400 GPUs also support CUDA, PhysX, SLI, and 3D Vision Surround technologies, which combine to take PC gaming to the next level. Everything is a Learning ExperienceJen-Hsun Huang talked with the New York Times last week and what shaped him for dealing with pressure as a CEO of a multi-billion company. "When the world is just falling apart, I actually think my heart rate goes down. I find that I think best when I'm under adversity. Maybe it's Denny's. As a waiter, you've got to deal with rush hour. Anyone who's dealt with rush hour in a restaurant knows what I'm talking about." GPUs to Mimic the BrainGPU Computing and Visual Computing are making the GPU the most important processor of the 21st century. GPUs are used for everything from video games to science and now brain research. "As part of a long-term project, the researchers are working on developing a computer that they hope could one day mimic the visualization systems of the human brain. And while there could be many practical applications for such research, one of the sexiest is a potential autonomous vehicle that could use its visualization acumen to navigate roadside dangers or impassable terrain. According to Nicolas Pinto, a Ph.D. student specializing in brain visualization research at MIT, the idea behind the project is to learn how to build a computer using advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) that could someday simulate the functions of the brain's visual cortex." GPU Computing is the use of the massively parallel architecture of the graphics processing unit (GPU) as a computational engine using high level languages and APIs. CPUs are no longer increasing in clock speed yet consumers are demanding more from their PCs today than ever before. In order to provide the much needed performance to deliver on these consumer expectations, the only path available is to go multi-core or parallel. For example, adding more cores and split demanding workloads across them. Due to the very nature of computer graphics, GPUs excel at doing many things at once and as such are ideally suited to this new computing environment. What GPUs bring is a massively parallel approach to the problem with 100s of cores. 3D Mish Mash3D continues to pick up steam:
3D is THE trend in technology today. Analysts predict about 1 million 3D PCs this year, growing to 50 million/year within 5 years. A 3D PC is a desktop or notebook PC equipped with:
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