Archive for October, 2008

Force3D Radeon HD 4870 Black Edition

Do we approach the perfect card? Maybe with this Radeon HD 4870 featuring the Arctic-Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo cooler:

ATI Catalyst 8.11 RC1 Available

NVIDIA ForceWare 178.24 WHQL for XP and Vista

This new version has received the WHQL certification from the Microsoft team and adds support for GeForce 9-Series mGPUs: 9400 and 9300. This driver supports all GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.

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Blender Game Engine: Bathroom Demo

A graphics and physics demo that shows Blender Game engine (available in Blender 2.48) in action:

NVIDIA GF9300 mGPU

An USB Docking Station for Your SATA HDDs

This cool gadget allows to connect both 2.5″ and 3.5″ HDD SATA hard drives to the PC via an USB connection. This hdd dock is available here: 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA HDD Dock with Cooling Fan .

Catalyst 8.10 Officially Available!

Just jump there to grab the vitamin for your brand-new radeon based graphics card: Catalyst 8.10 @ AMD.
It was time…

See you tomorrow for a little bit more news than today…

Parallel Rendering in OpenGL: How to Use Multiple GPUs

Natural Selection 2 3D Engine Video

Programming a Matrix Multiplication for GPUs with CUDA

CUDA makes it possible to program the GPU with the language C. This article will show you the steps to code a matrix multiplication routine in CUDA:

• allocate memory on the GPU with cudaMalloc or cudaMallocPitch (for aligned memory allocation)
• move data to the GPU with cudaMemcpy2D
• select the kernel domain, write the kernel and run it
• move results back from the GPU to the host with cudaMemcpy2D
• free resources with cudaFree

HIS Lauches Radeon HD 4650 with Zalman Passive Cooler

This Radeon HD 4650 (GPU RV730) features a Zalman VNF100 passive cooler and its price is around 80 euros.

Related links:

• HIS launches iSilence Radeon HD 4650

MAIN demoparty: 16-19 October 2008 in Marseille (France)

The third MAIN demoparty will be held in Marseille, France, from october 16th to 19th, Espace Julien Theater, in the center of the hot city.

MAIN demoparty webiste: www.mainparty.net.

Palit GeForce 9800 GT Super 1Gb Graphics Card

I you need a powerful graphics card to play 3D games and in the same time a video card that can be used in a HTPC (Home Theater PC), Palit has perhaps the right product with this GeForce 9800 GT 1Gb. This graphics card is equiped with an exceptionally quiet dual slot active
cooler and is available for about $170.

GeForce 9800 GT specifications:
- GPU: G92b (65nm) / 600MHz / 754-million transistors
- Memory: 1Gb GDDR3 / 256-bit / 1.8GHz effective
- Shader Processors: 112
- Textures Units: 32
- ROPs: 16
- DirectX 10 / OpenGL 2.1 / PhysX

NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Cards Used to Break WIFI Passwords

With graphics cards such the GeForce GTX 280 and parallel brute force based algorithms coded in CUDA (GPGPU techniques), WiFi’s WPA (RC4 based) and WPA2 (AES based) encryption systems are now crackable and the time to crack them compared to CPU based algorithms is reduced by a factor of 100 (or 10,000 %).

Update (2008-10-16)

• On a teste : l’acceleration GPU pour trouver une cle WPA WiFi @ PCINpact

Catalyst 8.10: OpenGL Extensions List and Geometry Instancing Support