Does your clock constantly drift to an inaccurate time/date? Our guide will help you hunt down the source of the problem and fix it!
NVIDIA GRID & Virtualized Desktops: the Future of Computing?
Virtual desktops with NVIDIA GRID offer a great way to provide users with tons of computing performance without the need for each user to have their own individual PC. We took the time to setup and use a virtual desktop for a variety of applications to see if we think virtual desktops will be the future of computing or if they will simply be another niche technology.
Press Release: Puget Systems Launches New Quad Socket Workstations
With up to 64 cores and 1TB of memory, the new workstations from Puget Systemsoffer not only extreme performance, but also excellent cooling and quiet operation. Puget Systems has been providing quad socket workstations for years now. Today, we refresh that product with a new duo of quad socket workstations that offer even more capacity, better
Quad Xeon vs Opteron, Zemax OpticStudio
We take a look at Quad Xeon and Quad Opteron performance and parallel scaling with Zemax OpticStudio including an analysis using Amdahl’s Law. Based on this analysis we then make performance predictions for other processors.
Taking Sides
Several times a year my father would score Utah Jazz tickets, and being the oldest son, meant I was the one to accompany him to Salt Lake City to watch the games at the old Salt Palace arena. I sat next to my father for the hour-long drive from our home in northern Utah and knew we were getting close when I could see the arena that looked like a large wedding cake.
For the next two hours I’d cheer on the Jazz against their rivals such as the Portland Trailblazers or the Seattle Sonics. The Jazz were my team and my loyalty knew no bounds. I wore Jazz jerseys, collected player cards, and could tell you how many assists John Stockton needed to overtake Magic Johnson as the all-time assists leader.
Delidding the 4790K for a quick look at the TIM
When the new Haswell K-series processors were still under NDA, there was a rumor that Intel was going to be moving back to soldering the CPU die to the heat transfer plate instead of using a TIM (thermal interface material). This rumor has been pretty well busted since we now know that these CPUs use what Intel is calling NGPTIM, or Next-Generation Polymer Thermal Interface Material.
Star Citizen Benchmark: Arena Commander v0.8
The long-awaited dogfighting module for Star Citizen, dubbed Arena Commander, has been released to backers of the game in its pre-beta form. It only has a few ships, a pair of maps, and a handful of game modes at this point… but is it the first part of the Star Citizen game to really be playable. It is also the first chance we have to fly ships, seeing how the physics handle and how they look in their natural environment. A lot of people have been waiting many months for this, and many will be looking at performance of this module as a gauge to see whether their computers can handle Star Citizen.
NVIDIA GPU Starter DevKit with OpenACC
NVIDIA Tesla K20 plus PGI Accelerator compilers with OpenACC in a package deal with a system. Yes, it’s official. If you’ve wanted to do some development work with OpenACC on Tesla, this is a nice way to get started with a heavily discounted K20 and PGI compiler package pre loaded on a Peak Mini.
Buy an NVIDIA GPU Starter DevKit with OpenACC
The GPU Starter DevKit with OpenACC is a personal supercomputer built for developers looking to supercharge the performance of your C/C++/Fortran-based application with GPUs. Powered by an NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator and PGI OpenACC compiler, this kit has everything you need for a fast and easy on-ramp to GPU computing-all for under $5,000.
NVIDIA Jetson TK1 CUDA performance
Here’s a quick look at CUDA performance on the NVIDIA Jetson Tegra K1 developer board.
