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RSS amdAshli - Advanced Shading Language Interface
White Paper The support for IEEE floating point computation and the exposure of shading functionality in a standardize API form have made graphics hardware a viable workflow solution to an artist involved in Digital Content Creation (DCC). [01 Mar 2008]
Applications of Explicit Early-Z Culling
White Paper In past years, in the SIGGRAPH Real-Time Shading course, the author has covered the details of real-time hardware shading on the R300 generation of products from ATI. Perhaps just as important as shading performance, however, is knowing... [01 Mar 2008]
Using a Network Appliance SAN With VMware Infrastructure 3 to Facilitate Server and Storage Consolidation
White Paper Many companies are experiencing a rapid proliferation of commodity Intel and AMD x86 servers. These systems are typically equipped with a small amount of internal or direct-attached disk storage. As server numbers grow... [01 Mar 2008]
Red Hat Integrated Virtualization - A Quick Guide
White Paper HVM or "Hardware Virtual Machine" takes advantage of the latest Intel and AMD hardware assistance. This paper shows examples of Red Hat's integrated virtualization being used to reduce costs, and improve availability,... [01 Mar 2008]
AMD Stream Computing: Software Stack
White Paper AMD) - a leading global provider of innovative computing solutions - is working with other leading companies and academic institutions worldwide to deliver a complete, accelerated computing ecosystem with software and... [29 Feb 2008]
VIDEO 101
White Paper Understanding how the PC can be used to receive TV signals, record video and playback video content is a complicated process, and unfortunately most documentation available on the subject tends to focus on the unnecessary technical and... [29 Feb 2008]
Shading Compilers
White Paper Graphics hardware evolution in the past year has been highlighted by improved shading resources, the introduction of dynamic flow control and the emergence of multi-GPU system configurations. Executed program length increased... [29 Feb 2008]
Radeon X1800 Image Quality
White Paper There are many factors that go into creating a compelling 3D experience on the PC, and the ability to display smoothly rendered animation is certainly an important one. This can generally be achieved by consistently updating the display... [29 Feb 2008]
Computational Chemistry Performance Analysis on Various Current Architectures
White Paper This paper was prepared to document benchmark performance for various computational chemistry applications running on popular computing platforms. Tests were run in December, 2004 on publicly released products at that time, with... [29 Feb 2008]
Real-Time Depth of Field Simulation
White Paper Photorealistic rendering attempts to generate computer images with quality approaching that of real life images. Quite often, computer rendered images look almost photorealistic, but are missing something subtle - something that makes... [29 Feb 2008]
HyperMemory: Next-Generation Memory Management for PCI Express Graphics
White Paper The availability of significant amounts of high-bandwidth memory is a key component of an efficient, high-performance graphics subsystem. For this reason, high-end graphics subsystems in modern enthusiast and workstation configurations... [29 Feb 2008]
ATI Theater 650 Pro: Bringing TV to the PC - Perfecting Analog and Digital TV Worldwide
White Paper After years of build-up, the media PC revolution has begun. Driven by such trends as the worldwide migration to digital over-the-air television broadcasting and the imminent arrival of next-generation HD optical discs, consumers are... [29 Feb 2008]
ATI Stable Platform and Unified Driver Strategy: An Innovative Approach Delivering Value to Enterprises
White Paper Market conditions directly impact how enterprises operate: as the dynamics change, so does the business planning. From a business standpoint, the slump in the economy has forced companies to reduce their Capital Expenditures (CAPEX),... [29 Feb 2008]
Performance Optimization Techniques for ATI Graphics Hardware With DirectX 9.0
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to introduce and explain complexities of performance tuning and optimizations, while providing real world solutions for state of the art ATI hardware. Primarily this paper is targeted at the latest ATI's... [29 Feb 2008]
Programmability Features of Graphics Hardware
White Paper This paper presents an overview of the new programmable features of modern graphics hardware. These programmable features are represented by the vertex engines and pixel pipelines found in modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU). [29 Feb 2008]
