Tag Archives | GPU

Hack and / – Password Cracking with GPUs, Part I: the Setup

Bitcoin mining is so last year. Put your expensive GPU to use
cracking passwords.

When the Bitcoin mining craze hit its peak, I felt the tug to join this new
community and make some easy mon…

Read full story Comments are closed

SoftLayer Tailors HPC clouds with GPU lining

SoftLayer is getting into the modern hybrid supercomputer racket with the launch of GPU-enhanced server instances. SoftLayer, which is based in Dallas, was founded in 2005 and merged with hosting rival The Planet before being bought up by GI Partner…

Read full story Comments are closed

GIMP 2.8 RC 1 Arrives with GPU Acceleration

The first release candidate of the next stable version of the open source graphics editor adds experimental support for GPU hardware acceleration of graphics operations…

Read full story Comments are closed

First PGI Compilers with Support for OpenACC Now Available

The Portland Group has beta-released its first Fortran and C compilers with support for OpenACC. PGI continues to invest in technologies to make GPU programming more straight-forward and productive for domain experts in science and engineering,&rdqu…

Read full story Comments are closed

Proposals To Split KMS & GPU Drivers, 2D Kernel API

Following a "Kernel Display and Video API Consolidation" mini-summit held at the Emebedded Linux Conference (ELC 2012) last week, Linaro and other mobile/embedded Linux stakeholders have come up with several graphics-related action items f…

Read full story Comments are closed

VA-API Video Decoding Support For Wayland

One of the many items that Intel developers have been working on for the rapid ascent of Wayland is GPU video decoding support…

Read full story Comments are closed

NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux

A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there's a catch… And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as the fate of this multi-GPU notebook feature could now fall with the Linux ke…

Read full story Comments are closed