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Submission + - AMD Announces 16 TFLOP Radeon Pro Duo, Partners With Crytek For VR First Program (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid on Monday March 14, 2016 @08:33PM

MojoKid writes: Today, AMD is holding its "Capsaicin" webcast in which the company is talking about all of its latest initiatives in the graphics realm, including VR and a powerful graphics card AMD has been hinting at for months. For starters, AMD has partnered up with powerhouse developer Crytek and will be Crytek's exclusive technology partner for its VR First initiative, which "provides colleges and universities a ready-made VR solution for developers, students and researchers." AMD and Crytek hope to plant VR seeds early so that can it empower people to create immersive VR experiences in the fields of medicine, entertainment, journalism and of course gaming. Also, remember that Radeon R9 Fury X2 graphics card that AMD CEO Lisa Su showed off months ago? We were previously lead to believe that the dual-GPU graphics card would deliver performance of around 12 TFLOPs. However, the card will actually deliver in excess of 16 TFLOPs. AMD says that this is more than enough to allow developers to "Develop content more rapidly for tomorrow's killer VR experiences while at work, and playing the latest DirectX 12 experiences at maximum fidelity while off work." And the Radeon R9 Fury X2 name? That's dead and buried — the card is now known as the Radeon Pro Duo. Not much is know about new car at this point but Radeon Pro Duo will apparently be available during the second quarter with an estimated street price of $1,499.

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Submission + - AMD clocks 500x spreadsheet speed boost via hardware acceleration in LibreOffice (amd.com)

Submitted by samtuke on Saturday July 25, 2015 @08:18AM

samtuke writes: AMD processors get rated and reviewed based on performance. It is in our self-interest to make things work really, really fast on AMD hardware. AMD engineers contribute to LibreOffice, for good reason. Think about what happens behind a spreadsheet calculation. There can be a huge amount of math. Writing software to take advantage of a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for general purpose computing is non-trivial. We know how to do it. AMD engineers wrote OpenCL kernels, and contributed them to the open source code base. Turning on the OpenCL option to enable GPU Compute resulted in a 500X+ speedup, about ¼ second vs. 2minutes, 21 seconds.

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Watch 200 Years of Global Growth In 4 Minutes 270

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @02:53PM from the statistics-are-fun dept.

kkleiner writes "A professor of international health in Sweden, Hans Rosling has a long history of exploring the facts and figures that surround our changing world. In the a segment of the BBC series, Rosling gives one of his most famous lectures with a new twist. Using 120,000+ bits of data and augmented reality, the exuberant professor takes us through the last 200 years of global history and its uneven growth of wealth and health." This is really worth watching. Seriously.

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Submission + - Democrats pan Google-Verizon net neutrality deal (thehill.com)

Submitted by GovTechGuy on Monday August 16, 2010 @04:36PM

GovTechGuy writes: Four Democrats wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging them to write strict net neutrality rules and reject the framework put forward by Google and Verizon. The lawmakers, which include Rep. Anna Eshoo who represents the district containing Google HQ, said the Google-Verizon proposal increases the pressure on the FCC to come up with actual net neutrality rules and characterize the deal as harmful to consumers and beneficial for the corporations. In particular, the letter took issue with two pieces of the Verizon-Google proposal: exemptions for managed services and wireless services from strict net-neutrality rules.

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Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! 225

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:41AM from the august-is-interesting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is now based."

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KDE 4.5 Released 302

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @06:16AM from the newer-and-shinier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.5.0 has been released to the world. See the release announcement for details. Highlights include a Webkit browser rendering option for Konqueror, a new caching mechanism for a faster experience and a re-worked notification system. Another new feature is Perl bindings, in addition to Python, Ruby and JavaScript support. The Phonon multimedia library now integrates with PulseAudio. See this interview with KDE developer and spokesperson Sebastian Kugler on how KDE can continue to be innovative in the KDE4 age. Packages should be available for most Linux distributions in the coming days. More than 16000 bug fixes were committed since 4.4."

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Wine 1.2 Released 427

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 16, 2010 @05:36PM from the pop-the-cork dept.

David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."

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Is LGP Going the Way of Loki Software? 124

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @01:04AM from the bad-news-bears dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After the demise of Loki Software, Linux Game Publishing sprouted up in its place, and for the past nine years has ported a number of games to Linux. But LGP may now be sharing the same fate as Loki. Linux Game Publishing hasn't updated its blog or news pages in months, has stopped responding to e-mails, and its only active ports are games they began work on in 2002/2003."

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