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Power Systems, the line of big iron packing Power7 CPUs, was one of the bright spots in IBM’s server business in the fourth quarter – so a price cut on Power7 processor cards and processor core activations might be one of the last things you would expect out of Big Blue. But this week, that is precisely what the company did.…
Spectral Studio is a photo realistic renderer, working on both the GPU or the CPU, un-biased and based on physically correct rules. It is a standalone tool that provides a complete solution for those who want great image quality and full control. The main difference is that the GPU is able to render faster due to the number of core (more than 1000 theses days), on the other side the CPU is able to use more memory even if most of the scenes fit well on the GPU. So it is up to you to choose the solution that fit your needs. Editing your materials and all your settings in real-time is a reality. Fine tune your materials and your lightning parameters to see the exact result you’re looking for.
Software License: Shareware
Operating Systems Support: Microsoft Windows
Download Link: Spectral Studio 1.0
Homepage: Spectral Studio
The new year in IT always begins around now, when the IEEE puts out the advance program for the International Solid State Circuits Conference, which takes place in San Francisco in February. This time around, it runs from February 19 through 23, and while there are not a large number of server-class processors coming out, there are some very interesting system-on-chip and memory technologies that chip makers will be showing off at the upcoming 2012 event.…
Nvidia had better watch out. Texas Instruments is not only its rival when it comes to making ARM processors that might end up in servers someday, but it is also repositioning its digital signal processors so they can be used as math coprocessors for standard x86 CPUs – and perhaps ARM processors one day.…
Cast your mind way back to when Intel was more or less content to be a server CPU maker and let the system makers adopting its Pentium, Xeon, and Itanium processors decide the defining characteristics of the computers that used those x86 and IA-64 processors. Not so any more. Intel may not call itself a server-maker, but for all intents and purposes, with the upcoming Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon E5 processors, Intel controls the show and controls the design and manufacturing of the server platform – from processors and chipsets to networking motherboards – as proprietary server-makers from days gone by were able to do.…