Nvidia's OpenCL-conformant drivers go public
In June, around seven months after Khronos released the OpenCL 1.0 spec, Nvidia unveiled its first OpenCL-conformant graphics driver. Despite having Khronos' blessing, however, Nvidia only made the driver available to members of its GPU Computing registered developer program. Well, the wait is over for everybody else—the driver
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Tesla GPUs find home in Bloomberg server farm
You might not know it by looking at the consumer applications out there, but general-purpose GPU computing does have uses other than video transcoding. No, really. Wall Street & Technology has written a story about one good example: Bloomberg's latest server farm, which uses Nvidia Tesla cards to run...
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Netbooks won't suffer Windows 7 edition restrictions
When netbooks started becoming popular last year, we heard about restrictions Microsoft enforced on hardware makers seeking to pre-install Windows XP instead of Vista. Only systems with certain display, memory, and storage sizes could apply. Good news, though: according to TG Daily, Microsoft will impose no such restrictions...
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Ion LE-powered AspireRevo available stateside for $200
Rememeber the Acer AspireRevo? The nettop was the first to pair Intel's Atom processor with Nvidia's Ion graphics, but it's been a little hard to find in the U.S. since launch. Good news, though: Newegg is now selling it for a cool $199.99. The AspireRevo variant on sale has...
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