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Company AMD , OTOY and Supermicro announced their intention to market a server platform for distributed mixed rendering (Fusion Render Cloud Servers, FRC) in the second quarter of 2010-based distributed streaming technology OTOY development was presented by the executive director Dirk Meyer, AMD (Dirk Meyer) at CES 2009 as a revolutionary server platform CPU/GPU new generation. It is expected that by FRC theoretically any device connected to the Internet through a channel with sufficient bandwidth, it will be possible to run applications that require intensive graphics processing – primarily, of course, games.

Platform FRC is largely focused on mobile devices such as smart phones and small-format notebooks, because it would allow not only to compensate them, as a rule, not too outstanding opportunities for graphics processing, but also reduce the load on the battery, extending the autonomous resource systems. According to the promises of partners, their development will allow for the withdrawal of photorealistic graphics on devices that were previously not able to provide such opportunities. Company Supermicro assumed direct embodiment of a platform built on the basis of the central and graphics processors from AMD and designed to run on its software, developed OTOY.

According to the specifications of the FRC will include 125 dual-core server rack height 1U, containing 250 AMD Opteron processors 6100 series and 500 graphics card Radeon HD 5970 with total capacity of 2,7 TFlops. This power consumption would be less than 100 kW, and the specific performance – 3,7 sq.m. 1 Pflops. The platform is designed to process up to 3000 competitive HD-video streaming (720p/1080p or above at 60 frames per second) for the operation of gaming applications, design programs and virtual desktops for all popular operating systems. In the case of video of lower resolution (standard definition, SD) number of competitive video streams with a frequency of 120 frames per second can reach 12000. Rendering speed is less than 1 ms per megapixel, while the built-level driver stack marker system will evaluate loading and reallocate resources.

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A week ago we told that the German manufacturer of sports cars at Geneva show an interesting concept of hybrid supercar called the 918 Spyder Hybrid. Visitors Motorshow enthusiastically adopted the concept – not often you can find exclusive supercar with a hybrid power plant. Even those who claimed the stagnation in the designer department of the company were satisfied – “spider” came to taste very much.

Journal AutoCar share information that Porsche management concept is also very much, and they are thinking about running it in production. It is planned that 918 th Carrera GT will replace the post flagship of the fleet of the company. Porsche CEO Michael Mahdi says: “We have received very good feedback about the car. Therefore, the company plans to appeal to its customers proven, with a request to write a letter of interest in buying the serial 918 Spyder. This concept, we demonstrated that high-end machines have a place in the future – we hope that customers will support us and respond to the question of scale production ».

AutoCar also said that if the hybrid 918 Spyder goes into a series, you should expect the car in about five years. This information was leaked from inside the German company, except that – about the same time passed before the Carrera GT has evolved from a concept into a real car. We hope that Porsche would succeed – the world will be a little not so, if on the roads of the future there will only be “toothless” elektromobilchiki and cost-effective, but such “dry” mass hybrids.

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The range produced by KYE Systems graphic digitizer recently has expanded model Genius MousePen M508, equipped not only a wireless electromagnetic pen, but “tailless” computer mouse.

novelty has ergonomic design, connects to a computer on the bus and USB 2.0 compatible with Windows 7/Vista/XP platforms and Mac OS 10.3.5 (or above). The device is characterized by a resolution of 4000 lpi and has an active area with dimensions of 127 x 203,2 mm. Stylus has 1024 levels of sensitivity to depression and for ease of portability is fixed to the tablet by special clips. In addition, in the arsenal there are four special buttons Express Keys, circular touchpad with functions Scrolling, Zoom In, Zoom Out and Brush Control, as well as thirteen programmable hot keys for quick access to frequently used applications.

About costs and timing of the beginning of massive sales of this product has no information there.

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A small Dutch company Microflown Technologies, it seems, has placed the art of wiretapping on a new level. The company has developed a tiny device that can hear, distinguish and identify the location of sources of different sounds from the screams and shots to the roar of planes. Of course, first and foremost interested in the development of the military. The technology is called the «Acoustic Vector Sensing» (AVS) and it is based on an analysis of the bulk motion of air particles, defining the axes X, Y and Z position of sound source in space. The main advantage of technology – for its use is required sensor is extremely small (not more than a match head), as well as a compact mobile computer with software installed.

Hans-Elias de Bree (Hans-Elias de Bree), co-owner Microflown Technologies and inventor of the technology AVS, said that the soldiers, using its sensor, will be able to almost instantly get information about the location of the source of the shot and even the type of weapon used. In addition, the military will be able to “hear” flying aircraft or ground equipment, tracking multiple targets. In poor visibility conditions (dust, mist), such devices are simply irreplaceable. Miniature size – that’s the main advantage of the development over its competitors.

According to the company, the test device, known as Microflown, successfully passed in the armies of Holland, Germany, India, Poland, New Zealand and Australia.

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On passing the San Francisco Game Developers Conference Game Developers Conference Organization Khronos Group has officially announced the specifications of the new graphics API OpenGL 4.0, acting as principal and only rival for DirectX 11. The main innovations of the fourth version can be attributed the emergence of two new levels of shader processing, allowing to postpone the processing of a tessellation with the CPU to the graphics core, as well as the opportunity to work directly with the data generated OpenCL. Furthermore, it is worth noting a significant increase in the flexibility of writing shader routines and support for 64-bit floating point.

course, OpenGL 4.0, and brought with it a new version of the programming language shaders namely GLSL 4.0. As a hardware platform for the new API stand graphics solutions with support for Shader Model 5.0, that is, solutions AMD the latest generation and future graphics cards NVIDIA . OpenGL 4.0 will be supported by all major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Also, the developers presented to the public specifications of OpenGL 3.3. This API is designed for the hardware platform of the previous generation, but the Khronos Group have tried to bring it closer in functionality to more advanced brother as much as possible.

NVIDIA Corporation has already announced that drivers with support for OpenGL 4.0 will be released simultaneously with the video card on the basis of Fermi. AMD has not made such statements, but that video of the company will also soon get themselves support the new API, no doubt.

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