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NVIDIA Quadro Series Empowers The Mobile Super Computers

February 23, 2011 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

New Line of Professional Mobile Graphics Solutions Built on NVIDIA Fermi Architecture and Optimus Technology.

NVIDIA announced today a new line of Quadro® professional graphics solutions for mobile workstations. Designed for engineers, industrial designers, animators, and film & video editors that need to take their work with them, these new Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs) leverage the NVIDIA Fermi architecture, which combines fast visualization performance with high performance computing capabilities. This massively parallel processing horsepower transforms laptop computers into mobile super computers.

Featuring twice the number of CUDA™ cores and twice the graphics memory over previous generations, these new Quadro GPUs also incorporate NVIDIA Optimus™ technology, maximizing battery life by automatically powering the GPU only when needed. Optimus also provides users with the ability to drive up to four displays at the same time.

Building on a decade of innovation and leadership in professional mobile graphics, the new Quadro line of mobile graphics solutions includes:

Quadro 5010M (Ultra-High End):
384 CUDA cores; 4 GB GDDR5 memory; designed for new 17.3-inch mobile workstations
Quadro 4000M (High End):
336 CUDA cores; 2 GB GDDR5 memory; designed for new 17.3-inch mobile workstations
Quadro 3000M (High End):
240 CUDA cores; 2 GB GDDR5 memory; designed for new 17.3-inch mobile workstations
Quadro 2000M (Mid-Range):
192 CUDA cores; 2 GB DDR3 memory; designed for 15.6-inch mobile workstations
Quadro 1000M (Mid-Range):
96 CUDA cores; 2 GB DDR3 memory; designed for 15.6-inch mobile workstations

The new standard for mobile workstation graphics excellence—the NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

The flagship Quadro 5010M features Error Correction Code (ECC) and fast, 64-bit double precision capabilitiesto ensure the greatest accuracy and fidelity of results. From medical imaging to structural analysis applications, data integrity and precision is assured, without sacrificing performance.

The Quadro 5010M features an unprecedented 4 GB of fast GDDR5 memory to enable interactivity on the largest projects. Shattering previ.us 3D graphics benchmarks, professionals on the go can achieve nearly a billion triangles per second with this ultra high-end Quadro mobile graphics solution.

NVIDIA Quadro technology creates mobile super computers

Similar to the NVIDIA Quadro 5000M, the groundbreaking NVIDIA Fermi-based mobile workstation graphics solution announced last year, and currently available in both the Dell Precision M6500 and HP EliteBook 8740w mobile workstations, additional features of these new NVIDIA Quadro mobile professional graphics solutions include:

The NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture – Quadro mobile GPUs deliver massive performance gains when running computationally intensive applications such as ray tracing, video processing and computational fluid dynamics.
NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Pro – support for the highest quality, stereoscopic viewing experience is helping drive the development of 3D capable visualization applications from companies such as Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, Siemens and Agilent.
NVIDIA Scalable Geometry Engine™ technology – dramatically improves performance across a broad range of CAD, DCC and scientific applications, enabling a user’s work to flow interactively with models and scenes that are an order of magnitude more complex than ever before.
NVIDIA GPU Tessellation Engine technology – with support for OpenGL 4.1, Shader Model 5.0 and DirectX 11, tessellation automatically generates finely detailed geometry for cinematic quality environments and scenes without sacrificing performance.
Application certification – support for the broadest spectrum of professional applications, including those utilizing OpenGL 4.1, Shader Model 5.0, and Microsoft DirectX 11, plus DirectCompute and OpenCL standards. Companies such as Adobe, Autodesk, and Dassault Systemes certify NVIDIA Quadro solutions for professionals whose livelihoods depend on maximum uptime with their applications.

Mobile workstation manufacturers have relied on NVIDIA GPUs for the past decade, and will integrate these Quadro solutions in their newest mobile workstations scheduled to be announced throughout 2011. For more information about NVIDIA and Quadro Mobile Graphics Solutions, please visit www.nvidia.co.in/quadromobile.

Self Healing Materials (Polymer) – They Heal, They Grow

February 20, 2011 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

UPCOMING TECHNOLOGY – The concept of self healing materials is not a fresh idea to science and technology. The ‘Self healing capability’ is one great upcoming technology where objects are made capable enough to fully restructure themselves to their original shape and structure with self efforts, when damaged or even broken apart.

It’s amazing to visualize and even witness (in some cases) to what it means and how it can change the way we deal with damaged objects. Some time ago, a video was released on youtube which displays the marvel.us capability of a self-healing vehicle tyre. On a regular set of rubber tyres, a single encounter with a sharp-pointed object can bring your vehicle to a stand still. Very recently, new form of self healing tyres have been successfully built to heal back from almost any puncturing attempt. The following speaks for itself.

The demonstration of an innovative self healing tyre as shared by Creax.com. A sample tyre is tested with multiple puncturing attempts and how it aptly repairs itself within a fraction of seconds to it’s original position.

On a different note, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and his co-workers at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) and Kyushu University (Japan) have developed a new polymeric material that can heal and repair itself on multiple attempts when exposed to UV light, as reported by MaterialsViews.

The new polymeric material produced by the American and Japanese team is stable and repairs itself again and again. The secret to their success is that the polymer is cross-linked through trithiocarbonate units. These are carbon atoms bonded to three sulfur atoms, two of which use their second bonding position to attach to another carbon atom. These groups have a special property: they can restructure under UV light. The light breaks one carbon–sulfur bond in the trithiocarbonate groups. This produces two radicals—molecules with a free, unpaired electron. The radicals are very reactive and attack other trithiocarbonate groups to form new carbon–sulfur bonds while breaking others to form more free radicals. The chain reaction stops when two radicals react with each other.

In simpler words, this newly developed polymer can be easily repaired from damages like cuts and shreds by firmly pressing the affected areas together followed by the irradiation process. I say, this is great beginning for an awesome and technologically enriched future. Imagine the level of convenience, cost and price reductions the self healing products may offer the consumers as well as the manufacturers!

Acer’s Special Promo Offers For This Valentine’s Day

February 11, 2011 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

Offers ranging from vouchers for movie tickets, lunch buffets and gifts from Reebok.

Acer, the world’s third largest technology giant has introduced an attractive end customer scheme to celebrate Valentine’s Day this season. With its special promo -“Acer Love Machine Offer”, the consumer can now charm their valentine with free couple tickets to their favourite movies or a gift voucher to an extravagant lunch buffet at a fine dining restaurant or a Reebok gift voucher. The offer will be valid from 11th February – 28th February 2011 targeting its end consumers. Customers can avail this offer on purchase of an Acer Aspire notebook only available at selected stores across India.

Acer has launched several end consumer schemes and this Acer Love Machine offer too will benefit its users. Customers can choose from the multiple options available to keep impressing their valentine.

Option #1: In Keep the Love alive: Customers can opt for a movie card of 12 Months validity, which entitles them to get 2 free movie tickets every month for 12 Months! worth Rs. 2400/- valid between Monday – Friday covering 70 cities across India.

Option#2: Romance in Style: Customer can avail 2 x (movie + lunch buffet) voucher and treat their loved ones to movie as well as lunch buffet in a fine dine restaurant worth Rs. 2400/-.

Option#3: Gift wrap your love: Customers can opt for a Reebok gift voucher worth Rs. 1500/-and redeem it for a merchandise of their choice at Rebook retail outlets.

Customers can now surprise their valentine with any of the above options. To avail this offer, a customer needs to follow three simple steps – purchase an Acer Aspire notebook, register on the Acer website and the gift vouchers will be delivered as per the consumer’s preference in minimum two weeks time.

We at Acer have a clear understanding of the mindset of our consumers, especially the youth and we are extremely confident that this offer will be immensely popular among them during this season. We have always taken an extra step to tailor our end customer offerings to suit the preferences and needs of the key consumer segments. said Mr. S Rajendran, Chief Marketing Officer, Acer India.

This season too, Acer has introduced an enticing offer for its end consumers. Apart from offering the consumer the satisfaction of owning a world-class product from a global brand, Acer has lent its consumers the reason to celebrate the special moments in their life. Keep impressing your valentine as you purchase an Acer Aspire Notebook and let the celebration continue.

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