According to IDC, in the final quarter of 2019, HPE leapfrogged Dell to grab the largest share of the global server market. Along with its China-based joint venture New H3C Group, HPE’s share grew to 16.3%($4.13 billion, with Dell at 15.7% ($3.98 billion). However, statistically, IDC is saying HPE and Dell share the number one […]
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Coronavirus research receives Powerbricks boost
NVIDIA has also announced that it is making its Parabricks software available to researchers battling the Coronavirus pandemic. Based on the well-known Genome Analysis Toolkit, Parabricks uses GPUs to accelerate by as much as 50x the analysis of sequence data.Parabricks is a GPU-accelerated genome analysis toolkit, which leverages graphics processing power to reduce the time […]
NVIDIA wants our spare CPUs for Folding@home
NVIDIA is asking computer owners to donate idle GPU and CPU capacity to the race to find treatments for Covid-19, the illness caused by the Coronavirus. It’s promoting Folding@Home, which has been developed at Stanford University. can be installed on any Linux, Windows or Mac computer to leverage your GPU or CPU power to contribute […]
A Coronavirus message from HPE CEO Antonio Neri
A message from HPE CEO Antonio Neri about the company’s response to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak.
Finscreen’s photo-realistic deepfakes wow VFX vets
At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Pinscreen demonstrated a new real-time, photo-realistic face synthesis technology. While primarily intended as a tool for creating next-gen virtual assistants and fashion avatars, it will be of great interest to VFX companies, as it enables them to create photo-real humans quickly and efficiently and at scale. […]
Joey Magidson’s Top 25 Best VFX Oscar winners
Joey Magidson, a contributor to the hollywoodnews.com website has listed his 25 Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners, and ranks ‘Jurassic Park’ as his No. 1 as, it “captured the imagination in a way that few other works have ever been able to do” 25 – Spider-Man 2 24 – Inception 23 – Blade Runner […]