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RSS floatingExploring the VLSI Scalability of Stream Processors
White Paper This paper explores the scalability of stream architectures to future VLSI technologies where over a thousand floating-point units on a single chip will be feasible. Stream processors are high-performance programmable processors optimized to run... [11 Jul 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene. [11 Jun 2008]
Floating Point Calculations and the ANSI C, C++, and Fortran Standard
White Paper These can result in differences in rounding and small variations in floating point results, which may be more or less accurate than the ANSI-conformant result. High application performance is an important goal of the Intel compilers, even at... [31 May 2008]
Innovations in Pervasive Computing: Unwinding the Pattern Behind Today's Killer Apps
White Paper Although great ideas are always floating around, the first person to package an idea as a product usually gets the recognition, as well as the sales that may come from it. Pervasive computing has greatly increased the use of small computing devices... [09 May 2008]
Add or Delete Captions
White Paper If the objects in the document are formatted as floating objects (floating object: A graphic or other object that is inserted in the drawing layer so that one can position it precisely on the page or in front of or behind text or other objects... [11 Apr 2008]
Go Wireless With J2ME and More: Tools and Resources for Becoming a Seasoned J2ME Developer
White Paper Developing applications for mobile devices is a little different than developing desktop applications: screens are smaller, power and memory support is lower, network connectivity is limited (in terms of both in availability and bandwidth), and... [10 Apr 2008]
Exchange 2003 Hacks
White Paper Exchange Server 2003 is highly customizable and there are plenty of tips, tricks, tweaks and hacks floating around on the web. A lot of the tools and some of the tips have been well documented by the other MSExchange authors. [03 Apr 2008]
Current Status of the Phase Change Memory and Its Future
White Paper With the increasing challenge of scaling floating gate non-volatile memory technology to beyond 65 nm, alternative memory technologies are being investigated. Chalcogenide based phase change memory (1) is one of the alternative memory candidates. [03 Apr 2008]
A Real-Time Parallel-Processing Imaging System for Radio Astronomy
White Paper At peak operating speed, the correlator connected to each receiver will generate an autocorrelation lag array of 8192 floating-point numbers every 50 ms, or 10.5 Mbytes of data every second. ACSIS (Auto Correlation Spectrometer Imaging System) is a... [04 Mar 2008]
Ashli - 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). [29 Feb 2008]
Advanced Image Processing With DirectX 9 Pixel Shaders
White Paper This is due to the longer program length, the ability to sample more times from the input image(s) and the addition of floating point internal data representation. With the introduction of the ps_2_0 pixel shader model in DirectX 9.0, the user is... [28 Feb 2008]
UberFlow: A GPU-Based Particle Engine
White Paper By combining memory objects with floating-point fragment programs, the paper has implemented a particle engine that entirely avoids the transfer of particle data at run-time. This paper presents a system for real-time animation and rendering of... [28 Feb 2008]
What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2008?
News The 2008 Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona on Monday 11 February and silicon.com's Natasha Lomas will be heading out there to see what's floating the mobile industry's boat this year. In the spirit of sneak preview, here's a whirlwind... [07 Feb 2008]
Apple unveils 'world's thinnest notebook'
News Apple unveiled its ultra-portable MacBook Air, the world's thinnest notebook according to CEO Steve Jobs, during his keynote speech at Macworld 2008. More on the iPhone News First iPhone Trojan reported iPhone 'mugging fear... [16 Jan 2008]
Health warning to overweight IT managers
News Photos: Floating computers keep an eye on the oceans Overweight IT managers are risking their health by smoking and failing to exercise - but they are at least staying off the booze - according to a Bupa study. [15 Jan 2008]
