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  • The future of desktop hardware seems to be focusing around GPU computing.  Large software suites including several Adobe products, Browsers such as Internet Explorer 9, and even medical imaging software are all being written and optimized to graphics processors as opposed to the classic ideal of a central processing unit or CPU.  By the sounds of things, this isn’t completely changing everything, but will severely lighten the load on your CPU. From the article I’ve been reading over, the performance boost is an equivalent of driving a 4 cylinder automobile and then jumping to a jet engine.  I can’t help but be slightly skeptical, considering some of the marketing hype I’ve seen in previous years.  I was at one of the unveiling conferences that AMD demonstrated their new 64-bit processors several years ago, boasting that the processors would demonstrate a 30% increase in performance versus their 32-bit predecessors.  The upgrade is minimal at...

    GPU Computing

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    The future of desktop hardware seems to be focusing around GPU computing.  Large software suites including several Adobe products, Browsers such as Internet Explorer 9, and even medical imaging software are all being written and optimized to graphics processors as opposed to the classic ideal of a central processing unit or CPU.  By the sounds of things, this isn’t completely changing everything, but will severely lighten the load on your CPU. From the article I’ve been reading over, the performance boost is an equivalent of driving a 4 cylinder automobile and then jumping to a jet engine.  I can’t help but be slightly skeptical, considering some of the marketing hype I’ve seen in previous years.  I was at one of the unveiling conferences that AMD demonstrated their new 64-bit processors several years ago, boasting that the processors would demonstrate a 30% increase in performance versus their 32-bit predecessors.  The upgrade is minimal at...

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  • The Wireless Takeover of the 21st Century Just seeing who’s paying attention.  Not too long ago the hype was all about the GB wired LAN connection, the fact that cell phones were able to take pictures as good a quality as a cheap digital camera, the XBox Live network or the PSN where you could finally play console games online, or even the Snuggie ‘thing’ which is nothing more than a backwards bathrobe. Not to distract myself from the topic at hand, but I couldn’t resist finding a picture of a Snuggie while I e-bash it.  Allow me to carry on.  Wireless has been around almost as long as the personal computer in the form of RF.  It didn’t really get it’s jump into networking, however, until the inception of 802.11b.  From past experiences, I was lucky to maintain a 10mb connection to my LAN, and as far as internet...

    The Wireless Takeover

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    The Wireless Takeover of the 21st Century Just seeing who’s paying attention.  Not too long ago the hype was all about the GB wired LAN connection, the fact that cell phones were able to take pictures as good a quality as a cheap digital camera, the XBox Live network or the PSN where you could finally play console games online, or even the Snuggie ‘thing’ which is nothing more than a backwards bathrobe. Not to distract myself from the topic at hand, but I couldn’t resist finding a picture of a Snuggie while I e-bash it.  Allow me to carry on.  Wireless has been around almost as long as the personal computer in the form of RF.  It didn’t really get it’s jump into networking, however, until the inception of 802.11b.  From past experiences, I was lucky to maintain a 10mb connection to my LAN, and as far as internet...

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