Desktop Virtualization Journal
GPU, as in graphics processing unit, don’t get as much credit as CPUs, the
supposed “brains” inside the PC. Well, that is slowly changing,
particularly as people figure out that the modern GPUs have a lot of raw
processing horsepower to more around all those pixels while you play your FPS
games.
This week, the latest list of the world’s top 500 supercomputers was
announced. What I find interesting about it is that at number 5 is a new
Chinese design that marries Intel Xeon CPU chips with AMD/ATI graphics chips.
There are thousands of clusters that contain a pair of CPUs and GPUs
connected via Infiniband switches. And perhaps the most interesting thing of
all is that they built this hybrid design by underclocking the GPUs: the
frequency of... (more)
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Have we reached the point where email’s influence over our electronic lives
is waning? It is hard to imagine, especially for those of us who grew up in
the minicomputer/PC era. For two generations, email was the killer
application. It delivered information reliably and within a few minutes.
But today the properties that made email so attractive for so long are now a
liab... (more)
My latest video screencast review for the Dell sponsored site ITExpertVoice
has been posted, on using Windows 7 new whitelisting feature called
Applocker. You can watch it here:
http://itexpertvoice.com/home/i-know-i-can-find-it-in-here-somewhere-using-windows-7-applocker/
... (more)
Paul Gillin and I have restarted our ever-popular series of podcasts called
MediaBlather. This week we interview Adam Christensen, the head of social
media communications for IBM. Just get a look at some of these stats:
Internal blogs: 17,000 Members of the Beehive social network: 60,000 Daily
page views on IBM’s internal wiki: 1,000,000 IBMers on Twitter: 3,000
IBMers on Facebook: 52,000... (more)
It took only a few years for the Web to evolve from its first crude text-only
efforts to a full graphical experience. Yet it has taken more than a decade
to get videos inside the browser page.
This week Brightcove begins a new lower-priced video service called Express
that starts at $100 a month and offers some impressive features. I’m glad
to see them in this space, which is still very mu... (more)
David Strom is an international authority on network and Internet technologies. He has written extensively on the topic for 20 years for a wide variety of print publications and websites, such as The New York Times, TechTarget.com, PC Week/eWeek, Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business Computing, Communications Week, Windows Sources, c|net and news.com, Web Review, Tom's Hardware, EETimes, and many others.
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