multicore

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Software

Windows XP, Vista and 7 Tested For Multicore Performance, XP Still Wins For Now

10:40AM Jason Chen | InfoWorld has a very interesting test between Windows XP, Vista and 7 in terms of multicore performance, and it seems like Windows XP still wins (right now). But there are even more interesting things. More »
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Entertainment

MythBusters Build a 2100-Barrel Paintball Gun to Paint the Mona Lisa, Instantly

11:20AM John Herrman | In a presentation made at Nvidia’s NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 2100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing (if not slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis. The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively. More »
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