Collaborate Disseminate
The Mac Pro Upgrade community is taking old “cheese grater” Mac Pros and putting cutting-edge graphics cards in them. The specs often outperform even top-of-the-line new Apple computers. Continue reading The Most Powerful Mac Is 6 Years Old and Not Sold By Apple
Nvidia thinks its ‘ray tracing’ tech is the future of video game graphics. Continue reading Watch This 3D ‘Star Wars’ Demo Running on a $60,000 Personal Supercomputer
The word supercomputer gets thrown around quite a bit. The original Cray-1, for example, operated at about 150 MIPS and had about eight megabytes of memory. A modern Intel i7 CPU can hit almost 250,000 MIPS and is unlikely to have less than eight gigabytes of memory, and probably has quite a bit more. Sure, MIPS isn’t a great performance number, but clearly, a top-end PC is way more powerful than the old Cray. The problem is, it’s never enough.
Today’s computers have to processes huge numbers of pixels, video data, audio data, neural networks, and long key encryption. Because …read more
Another massive financing round for an AI chip company is coming in today, this time for SambaNova Systems — a startup founded by a pair of Stanford professors and a longtime chip company executive — to build out the next generation of hardware to supercharge AI-centric operations. SambaNova joins an already quite large class of […] Continue reading The red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova Systems
Google is warning a critical vulnerability found in its Media Framework warrants extra attention by security minded Android users. Continue reading Google Patches 11 Critical Bugs in March Android Security Bulletin
Berkely’s SETI project can’t get its hands on the latest graphics cards, which are popular with cryptocurrency miners. Continue reading Cryptocurrency Miners Are ‘Limiting’ the Search for Alien Life Now
The GPU manufacturer reaffirmed its commitment to gamers. Continue reading Nvidia Will Focus on Gaming Because Cryptocurrencies Are ‘Volatile’
“We recommend our trading partners to take according measures to ensure they can provide the needs of gamers per usual.” Continue reading Nvidia Says ‘Gamers Come First’ as Cryptocurrency Miners Continue to Hoard GPUs
In the Application Security News, Paul and Keith discuss how malicious NPM packages could harvest credit card numbers and passwords from your site, NVIDIA updates video drivers to help address CPU memory security, multiple vulnerabilities in PHP could … Continue reading NVIDIA, Oracle, Coinbase, and Bitcoin – Application Security Weekly #1
TL;DR – Spectre and Meltdown are two recently announced vulnerabilities that allow private data to be accessed by otherwise unauthorized applications. Patches are coming out to mitigate risks, but these may also affect the speed of your devices a… Continue reading Spectre and Meltdown Haunt CPUs Everywhere – What to Know and What to Do