Comments on: As Devices Converge, Chip Vendors Girding For a Fight http://gigaom.com/2009/04/16/as-devices-converge-chip-vendors-girding-for-a-fight/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nvidia Touts New GPU Supercomputer [GigaOM] | BYOHosting.com Blogs http://gigaom.com/2009/04/16/as-devices-converge-chip-vendors-girding-for-a-fight/#comment-167600 Mon, 04 May 2009 14:23:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=44561#comment-167600 [...] Nvidia has signed deals with several HPC system manufactures, such as Appro, to get its Tesla S1070 into the hands of researchers and scientists. As Nvidia has focused on scientific computing, it has made GPU-based cards to be used in HPC systems, for desktop supercomputers and even for some corporate settings. This is its first GPU-system that comes pre-assembled, so companies or researchers don’t have to build the GPU clusters themselves. Its graphics processors, which excel at parallel processing for CAD design, creating software algorithms or Monte Carlo simulations, are used in several industries. Today’s announcement also underscores an emerging trend of using a broader range of processors in HPC and even data centers as the tradeoff between performance and energy becomes a bigger consideration. [...]

]]> By: Nvidia Touts New GPU Supercomputer [GigaOM] | BYOHosting.com Blogs http://gigaom.com/2009/04/16/as-devices-converge-chip-vendors-girding-for-a-fight/#comment-167601 Mon, 04 May 2009 14:23:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=44561#comment-167601 [...] Nvidia has signed deals with several HPC system manufactures, such as Appro, to get its Tesla S1070 into the hands of researchers and scientists. As Nvidia has focused on scientific computing, it has made GPU-based cards to be used in HPC systems, for desktop supercomputers and even for some corporate settings. This is its first GPU-system that comes pre-assembled, so companies or researchers don’t have to build the GPU clusters themselves. Its graphics processors, which excel at parallel processing for CAD design, creating software algorithms or Monte Carlo simulations, are used in several industries. Today’s announcement also underscores an emerging trend of using a broader range of processors in HPC and even data centers as the tradeoff between performance and energy becomes a bigger consideration. [...]

]]> By: Nvidia Touts New GPU Supercomputer http://gigaom.com/2009/04/16/as-devices-converge-chip-vendors-girding-for-a-fight/#comment-167599 Mon, 04 May 2009 13:39:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=44561#comment-167599 [...] an emerging trend of using a broader range of processors in HPC and even data centers as the tradeoff between performance and energy becomes a bigger consideration. [...]

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2009/04/16/as-devices-converge-chip-vendors-girding-for-a-fight/#comment-167598 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:54:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=44561#comment-167598 Arjun, great point on OSes. That’s another several hundred words that I one day would like to get to. I agree that disk size will increase, but I think the ability to access the same content across a wide variety of devices may be a killer app if content owners can get their licensing in order.

]]> By: As Devices Converge, Chip Vendors Girding For a Fight (via FriendFeed) | Consumer Electronics, Social Media, and the Digital Home http://gigaom.com/2009/04/16/as-devices-converge-chip-vendors-girding-for-a-fight/#comment-167597 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:40:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=44561#comment-167597 [...] As Devices Converge, Chip Vendors Girding For a Fight 9 minutes ago – Comment – Like [...]

]]> By: Arjun http://gigaom.com/2009/04/16/as-devices-converge-chip-vendors-girding-for-a-fight/#comment-167596 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:16:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=44561#comment-167596 Nice Article. Some additional comments:
a) Bang on that chipmakers are now competing for a larger market share than before. And competition just got more fierce. However, I personally don’t believe cloud technology necessarily marries into convergence of devices. My prediction is that disk sizes will continue to increase even in smaller form factors (we already see 160GB today) as cloud relates to privacy as well. Either way, I don’t think convergence market for devices will heavily depend on cloud. But we will see

b) The war is also heating up on Operating Systems like those of Android being applied to all these form factors due to its open nature

]]> By: As Devices Converge, Chip Vendors Girding For a Fight http://gigaom.com/2009/04/16/as-devices-converge-chip-vendors-girding-for-a-fight/#comment-167595 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:11:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=44561#comment-167595 [...] News Sources wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe computing world is undergoing a significant shift as consumers and businesses access and store more of their information in web-based applications, get their software delivered as a service or even download music and movies to their PCs on demand. This trend is enabled by better access to wireless networks, be they Wi-Fi hotspots at a local Starbucks or cellular networks that work in the middle of a corn field. Some people refer to this shift as everything moving to the cloud, but whatever [...]

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