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  IEEE Spectrum: CPU, Heal Thyself

  In the old days, computer vendors would often pull a fast one. They would tell you their system had the latest microprocessor when it actually had a cheaper, slower version running faster than the chip’s rating permitted. So the shiny, new 500-megahertz system you thought you were buying might ...

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  TechOnline | GPGPU: The Evolution of the Coprocessor

  Coprocessing is defined as the use of a special purpose unit to supplement the central processing unit; this concept has been a part of electronic computing almost from the beginning. Coprocessors have been used to enhance the performance of core systems since the Mainframes of the 50's and ...

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  Fujitsu rolls out Venus, world's fastest processor | DVICE

  Look out, Intel. Fujitsu just unleashed the fastest processor in the world, a startling 2.5 times quicker than Intel's speediest chip. Supercomputer users will love "Venus," the eight core processor that's capable of 128 billion computations per second. What all those numbers mean? While its ...

  Phil Duby added 7 months ago

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  Caustic Graphics :: Realtime Raytracing

  CausticRT™ No compromises. No restrictions. Caustic Graphics® introduces CausticRT the world's first massively accelerated raytracing system - a perfect ray-trace machine on a workstation graphics card. Use CausticRT to create a uniquely high-performance, scalable rendering environment ...

  Phil Duby added 7 months ago

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  A Tool to Make More of Many Cores

  April 21, 2009 By Robert X. Cringley ( Technology Review) — Intel's Ct software will make ordinary code work on forthcoming many-core processors. When it comes to writing computer software, there is a huge difference between "multi" and "many." Mere humans can write good software for the current ...

  Phil Duby added 7 months ago

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