http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/nvidia.20.series.teslas.appear/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/nvidiateslac2050.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA today provided details of the first official hardware to use its upcoming Fermi architecture. The Tesla 20 series is even more optimized for general-purpose computing standards like OpenCL or NVIDIA's own CUDA and handles complex math that previously hasn't been as practical, such as ISO standard double-precision math and C++ code processing. Unlike past models, though, the card model als... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/nvidia.20.series.teslas.appear/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/09/nvidia.says.gpus.still.only.focus/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/nvidiafermi-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA chief Jen-Hsun Huang has denied rekindled talk of his company making x86 processors. Speaking after a conference call, the CEO claims that his focus is still "very, very clear" and that the focus is on graphics processors and closely related parallel computing cards like the Tesla line. The only full processors that NVIDIA is making are mobile chips like the ARM-based Tegra series for han... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/09/nvidia.says.gpus.still.only.focus/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/06/metal.air.ionic.liquid.could.extend.batteries/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/macbookpro-batteryindicator.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new development by partly government-backed Fluidic Energy could potentially extend the battery life of notebooks, cars and other devices well beyond existing lithium-ion cells. Known as Metal-Air Ionic Liquid (MAIL), it would improve energy storage beyond relatively efficient zinc-air batteries by using an ionic liquid salt to conduct electricity that is much more stable and isn't prone to dry... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/06/metal.air.ionic.liquid.could.extend.batteries/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/nvidia.fermi/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nvidiafermi.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA this evening provided an early look at the next generation of its graphics processors. Nicknamed Fermi, the architecture for future GeForce, Quadro and Tesla chipsets will jump from 240 cores to a much larger 512 and should be much faster in each core courtesy of some industry-first techniques. Fermi chips will be the first GPUs to have a real cache hierarchy, with Level 1 caches to keep ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/nvidia.fermi/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/18/nvidia.tesla.supercomputer/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0811/teslac1060intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA on Tuesday announced the availability of its GPU-based Tesla architecture Personal Supercomputer, which, the company promises, has as much as 250 times the computing performance of a PC thanks to NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture and up to 960 parallel processing cores. Along with its partners, buyers can now opt for desktop PCs with the sort of computing power previously reserved... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/18/nvidia.tesla.supercomputer/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/22/nvidia.cuda.20.final/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0808/nvidiaquadrofx3700m.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA today formally released the finished version of CUDA 2.0. The second generation of the company's general-purpose programming language for its video chipsets supports 64-bit versions of Mac OS X and Windows Vista and adds support for instructions that can help offload more specific tasks from the main processor to the video card, such as 3D textures and hardware-accelerated interpolation of... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/22/nvidia.cuda.20.final/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/23/directx.11.with.gpgpu.tech/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0807/microsoftdirectx.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft's next version of DirectX will have its own alternative to the OpenCL standard proposed by Apple, the company revealed yesterday at its GamesFest conference. DirectX 11 will have support for "compute shader technology" that allows modern, more generalized video cards' effects processors to perform tasks other than rendering video, including physics calculations and other chores that wou... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/23/directx.11.with.gpgpu.tech/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/17/opencl.standard/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/nvidiateslat10p.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Khronos Group late yesterday established a new alliance between vendors that could see standards for high performance computing such as OpenCL gain a foothold across many operating systems and hardware platforms. Called the Computer Working Group, the team includes graphics rivals 3DLabs, AMD, and NVIDIA, processor makers such as ARM, Freescale, Intel, and Qualcomm, and end product manufactur... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/17/opencl.standard/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/16/nvidia.tesla.t10p/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/nvidiateslat10p.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA on Monday used the occasion of its GTX 200 introduction to quietly update its Tesla line of workstation processor cards. The T10P chipset added to the cards is virtually identical to the 240-core GTX but is her spun entirely towards accelerating high performance computing tasks such as medical research and very high-level math. The very specialized nature of the chip lets it calculate as ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/16/nvidia.tesla.t10p/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:30:00 GMT