Nvidia today made good on past promises, announcing its new Nvidia Grid Computer Appliance. The device delivers remote GPU acceleration and a turnkey sensibility, enabling what Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang calls graphics as a service. The Grid VCA is a GPU-based system that runs complex 3D professional creation applications such as those from Adobe, Autodesk and Dassault Systèmes.
I wonder if you’ll be able to jailbreak a PS4 and run Windows on it? After all, earlier this year, in the US it became illegal to unlock your phone without your carrier’s consent. Or even cooler, run Sony’s Linux OS in a partition and have a dual boot system. It’s sure to have USB ports so you could hang … Read more
Turning 850 gigabytes of 3D scan data into one coherent visualization led to the discovery of 71 carvings.The UK’s York Archaeological Trust was recently commissioned to use contemporary technology to spatially and digitally record England’s historic Stonehenge. The team decided to visualize the original point-cloud data and created a workflow using Bentley Pointools.
While numbers on the surface weren’t much to cheer about, a deeper look at the results show a market that appears to be settling into a healthier, sustainable growth pattern. Subscribers can download the new Q4 2012 Market Quarterly and read more about the direction of the market on the JPR Workstation Report Series Page.
Functional accessories will be the next hardware trend. Google has demonstrated its Google Glass technology and is hard at work getting production-ready units built in time for a 2013/2014 release. The company’s New York office brought in journalists to let them try out the newest thing ever, and Google founder Sergey Brin was recently spotted on a New York subway … Read more
Nvidia is now shipping four new cards in its Quadro line of professional graphics cards. The power consumption of the Quadro K4000 running the previous generation Fermi technology was 420 Watts; in the Kepler edition of the K4000 electricity consumption has been reduced 80 Watts. Check out the new line on GraphicSpeak.
The PS3 came out in 2006 with a new IBM-Power-based SIMD CPU structure they called the Cell. Now, in 2013 Sony introduced the PS4 with an X86-based architecture that looks like a PC. The eight X86 CPUs will give the PS4 long legs in the market with plenty of headroom for physics and AI. Read more on the PS4 on … Read more
Crytek boss Cevat Yerli before the PS4 launch party: “We used Moore’s Law, If you predict how hardware evolves at the current speed of evolution, and then take consumer pricing evolution, already two years ago you could see, whatever launches in 2013 or 2014 or 2015, will never beat a PC again.” check out the full article on Eurogamer.net.
Watch out, looks like bricks and mortar are coming around. Somewhere, some time or another I’m reasonably sure someone around here predicted the end of bricks and mortar, and just a few short years ago, as we rummaged the desolate aisles of failing record stores and bookstores, that day seemed to be coming sooner rather than later. But, a funny … Read more
New definitions are needed The first quarter of 2013 has ushered in new levels for the high-end, and what might have been considered the low-end. The high end currently belongs to Nvidia with its 2688 core Titan GPU, where does the low-end belong? Is it the new PS4 with integrated graphics and unified memory? Or is it an ARM Cortex … Read more
A late sales surge lifted Autodesk to record fourth-quarter revenue to close its fiscal year 2013. For the full year Autodesk revenue has roughly returned to where it was in 2008. Revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 was $607 million, up 2% from a year earlier. Read more on Autodesk’s record quarter on GraphicSpeak.
Worst seasonal drop since 2008, -25x of 10-year average, JPR found that AIB shipments during Q4 2012 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, but the drop was considerably more dramatic. AIB shipments decreased 17.3% from the last quarter (the 10 year average is just -0.68%). Subscribers can download the new Q4’12 report now.
