Tag: gpgpu

NVIDIA’s Playbook

Post author By Jesse Chan
Post date September 3, 2007
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Just a year ago, NVIDIA and ATI were in the midst of a war for graphics processing unit (GPU) supremacy in the $18 Billion a year video game industry. Then, ATI was bought out by AMD. At the time, there was talk that the combined technologies from ATI’s GPUs and AMD’s CPUs would deal a […]

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Virtualization

Post author By Jesse Chan
Post date August 14, 2007
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[Update 8/15/2007: Citrix is in the process of buying XenSource for $500m]. Virtualization is an amazing technology that has been with computing since its infancy. However, in recent years it has reached the mainstream on servers and desktops. Virtualization provides an abstraction of physical computing resources – such as cpu, network, and storage. Hence the […]

Tags cpu, data center, google, gpgpu, gpu, parallels, peakstream, rapidmind, virtual machine, virtualization, vmware, xen, xensource