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Archive for December, 2008

Despite the ratification of OpenCL as a standard may have changed significantly in the scenario of GPGPU applications, Nvidia has no intention of abandoning Cuda, a platform on which it has invested and will continue to invest.

The American company has decided to present a new version, for now beta, release 2.1, which introduces support for Windows Vista, for products Tesla and a 32-bit debugger can run on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x. It also added support for VisualStudio 2008 on Windows XP. According to the company were included in the new API can work properly with Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 10, this must be added a number of improvements in interoperability with OpenGL in addition to support for many of the recent Linux distributions.

Nvidia, as AMD has recently announced that developers can use the SDK to create applications based on OpenCL able to exploit the GPU. The Californian company had, the beginning of the year, also announced the forthcoming introduction of a platform capable of Cuda function properly on x86 systems: the launch was subsequently postponed to the end of 2008, and now, according to many sources, such platform may not ever arrive. In this scenario it should be added to Intel’s Larrabee, a product that American society has long since dropped the curtain, preferring to work behind the scenes. It predicts a hot and intense in 2009 as regards the reality of the applications with accelerated graphics card.

In times of crisis, the energy is not only an interest related to environmental protection and protection against global warming, but also a matter of economics. Perhaps for these reasons are multiplying on the market the solutions they adopt a philosophy more ‘green’.

O2 has launched a UK charger for mobile high-efficiency, which promises to save up to 70% of the energy that usually is dispersed by the normal cartridge. The new processor comes with a choice of connectors, which can cover virtually the entire range of mobile operator.

The charger can be purchased at discounted price along with a phone O2 to about 7.50 pounds, about half the normal price of purchase. The connector is sold separately and has a cost of around £ 5. The charger is in conformity with the guidelines U.S. Energy Star.

A search was estimated at almost 35 million Euros the cost of wasted leaving the charger attached to the network even when the phone is charging, with a waste of energy per cell of about 2.8 kWh per year.