London’s Framestore is famous for so convincingly putting Sandra Bullock into space and settling a marmalade-loving bear in London. More recently, for an equestrian action sequences in Season 4 of The Crown, their VFX wizards have now turned their hand to replacing the face of a skilled equestrian with that of Erin Doherty, who plays […]
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NVIDIA doubles Ampere A100 memory capacity to 80GB
NVIDIA has announced a doubling of the memory capacity of its Ampere A100 GPU to 80GB and a 25% increase in memory bandwidth, to 2TB/s. This is particularly good news for anybody involved in the world of High Performance Computing. “Achieving state-of-the-results in HPC and AI research requires building the biggest models, but these demand […]
Improve WFH with HPE Greenlake for VDI and NVIDIA GPUs
When the pandemic hit and working effectively from home became the new challenge, it fell to CTOs and CIOs to find workable solutions. Now that we have adjusted and acclimatised, what are the areas businesses must focus on as an estimated 48% of us look forward to this being a mid- to long-term thing? People […]
Gods Of Mars scales up on a budget using virtual production
Director Peter Hyoguchi’s new film Gods Of Mars, which is currently in production, is the latest to take full advantage of the power and flexibility of virtual production technology,. Unreal Engine and virtual set technology have enabled the production team to develop what was intended as a small-scale adventure story into something much more ambitious. […]
HPE’s latest Apollo 6500 server crushes AI tasks
On 9 November, HPE introduced its most powerful server ever, the Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus, which can accommodate 4, 8, 10, or 16 GPUs and is designed specifically for High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence workloads. The demand for HPC and AI is increasing exponentially. Companies want to analyse and exploit their data to gain […]
Superintelligence gets a Thanksgiving laugh out of AI
This Thanksgiving, HBO Max’s US audience is getting a new action comedy, Superintelligence, about what happens when an all-pervasive AI (voiced by James Corden) focuses on Ms Average (Melissa McCarthy) to help her to get her life in order, and into the bargain, maybe sort out some of the planet’s and society’s problems in the […]