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Daily Roundup: 2010-02-09

Category: Daily Roundup | Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-02-09 13:26:00

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Valentine's Day Giveaway, MSI Netbook

Category: Other | Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-02-09 13:19:00

MSI is giving away three brand new U135 Ruby colored 10'' netbook worth $329. For those who are interested, check out the official link to get your chance to win one. The contest unfortunately is limited to the US customers and all you have to do is follow three simple steps: join MSI US Facebook, become a fan of their Twitter and email a photo of you and your loved one to MSI or tweet the news.

Source: MSI 

Daily Roundup: 2010-02-08

Category: Daily Roundup | Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-02-08 16:50:00

Leading University Joins Prominent Network of Institutions Focused on Parallel Computing

Category: Other | Posted by Scott Sherman @ 2010-02-08 09:27:00
NVIDIA Corp. announced today that it has recognized the University of Maryland as a CUDA Center of Excellence, placing it in an elite grouping of 9 other universities and research organizations worldwide.

The university was selected for its pioneering use of GPU computing and the CUDA programming model across research and teaching efforts within multiple science and engineering departments.

CUDA(TM) is NVIDIA's computing architecture that enables its GPUs to be programmed using industry standard programming languages and APIs, opening up their massive parallel processing power to a broad range of applications beyond graphics.

Other CUDA Centers of Excellence in the U.S. and abroad include Cambridge University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, National Taiwan University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Tennessee and University of Utah. More than 300 universities worldwide teach the CUDA(TM) programming model within their curriculum.

"Maryland was one of the first universities to start integrating the use of GPUs and the CUDA architecture into our courses and research," said Amitabh Varshney, Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland. "The CUDA programming model is an extremely effective educational tool for students learning parallel programming and no other technology available today provides as powerful and affordable platform for our research as the GPU."

Researchers at the University of Maryland have been exploring the use of GPUs for general-purpose computing for the past five years, when they have demonstrated how to map a number of problems in science, engineering, and medicine to GPUs. Maryland researchers have also published papers that use the CUDA(TM) architecture of NVIDIA(R) GPUs to enable entirely new computational techniques in these disparate fields, ranging from the astrophysical simulation of colliding black holes to the real-time analysis of the acoustic properties of concert halls.

The CUDA Center of Excellence at University of Maryland will support several new projects that make extensive use of GPUs such as DNA sequencing. There has been a dramatic increase in the volume of sequence data that can be analyzed, thanks to GPUs, and sequence alignment programs such as MUMmer, a system developed by University of Maryland with the support of the National Institute of Health, have proven essential to this process. By structuring the required processing in parallel on a GPU, MUMmerGPU achieves more than a 10-fold speedup over a serial CPU version of the sequence alignment kernel. MUMmer GPU is available today through NVIDIA's Tesla Bio Workbench initiative.

Daily Roundup: 2010-02-07

Category: Daily Roundup | Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-02-07 12:43:00
Press releases
Press Release

Active Media Products Debuts MotKey™ Key Shaped USB Drive

Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-02-09 13:31:00

Active Media Products Debuts MotKey™ Key Shaped USB Drive

Fremont, California – February 8, 2010 – Active Media Products, manufacturer of SSDs and innovative USB drives, today announced the new MotKey key-shaped USB 2.0 drive. This key drive is available today in 4GB and 8GB capacities.

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Silicon Power Announces the New Helios 101 Series USB Flash Drives ~ Available in Apple Green and Ocean Blue

Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-02-09 13:14:00

February 9, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan ~ Flash memory module leader, Silicon Power today (Feb. 9) announces their brand new Helios 101 series USB flash drive. Available in apple green and ocean blue, the new Helios 101 series utilizes natural colors on polished aluminum casing that is sandblasted for the ultimate shine. This combination gives the Helios 101 an extraterrestrial aura feel only seen in the movies! Silicon Power’s Helios 101 strives for a futuristic, fashionable, simple and finger-print proof design. It is thin, light and suited for the fashion conscious user!

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AMD Launch ATI RadeonT HD 5570 Graphics Card

Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-02-09 13:05:00

ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 Graphics Brings a Big Visual Experience to Small Form Factor PCs

— The newest addition to the AMD graphics family strengthens the world’s only complete line-up of award-winning DirectX® 11 capable graphics cards, delivering exceptional HD multimedia and gaming performance at a mainstream price —

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Feb. 9, 2010— AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 graphics card, perfect for end-users seeking an energy efficient, low-profile DirectX® 11 card for small form factor PCs. The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card joins the award-winning line of AMD graphics that fully support DirectX 11, as well as ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology[1] and ATI Stream capabilities.[2] This latest offering completes a full DirectX 11 refresh of AMD discrete graphics products, bringing customers a choice of cutting-edge graphics cards to match every budget and form factor.

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