ShaderMap is an image texture and map generator for 3D designers. It allows you to create maps from source images, 3D models and lightscan images. Each map is generated by a plugin. There are a number of standard map plugins that are included in the ShaderMap installation like: Diffuse Displacements Diffuse Albedo Normal Displacement [...]
The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software has become an essential tool for reducing development costs by enabling users to quickly machine more realistic geometries. CFD is a simulation tool for the analysis of complex thermal and fluidic phenomena. It is crucial for the safety of [...]
In the world of engineering and design, high-performance computing (HPC) has been used to solve complex tasks with ease. The popularity of HPCs has increased significantly, but many are still struggling to figure out the right configurations. In addition, the question often arises as to when and how they should be used. This struggle [...]
AMD has had high-performance computing contracts lately, but to really compete with Nvidia, it needs to develop an alternative to Nvidia`s CUDA language. The $5.4 billion purchase of ATI Technologies by AMD in 2006 seemed like a strange event. The companies were not only in separate markets, [...]
OpenCL is a computational framework designed to take advantage of multicore platforms. Over time, some myths about OpenCL have been formed, which we would like to get to the bottom of in this article. OpenCL is an open, cross-platform, parallel computing standard of the Khronos working group. [...]
Robert Foss from Collabora was again at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit this week to present the latest state of the art in open source graphics drivers for embedded applications. As you should all know, the embedded open source graphics drivers have improved greatly, especially with [...]
Knowing how and when to use GPGPUs in HPEC computers will give embedded designers a better understanding of how to manage power consumption and load balancing with this powerful processing technology. Two of the biggest difficulties of modern embedded systems can be summarized in a few words: [...]
GPU computing is the use of a GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) as a co-processor to accelerate CPUs for general scientific and technical computing. Universal Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) is the means of using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which typically does only the computation for computer graphics, to perform computations in applications [...]
Web browsers in most cases cannot use the full power of your computer or mobile device. The code they run tends to run in a sandbox that is abstracted from your hardware and does not allow the browser full access. For example, while your desktop software can use all the cores of your computer [...]
The "cocktail" of prescription drugs that some people and many seniors have to take every day often leads to deviation from the rules. The large number of pills in different sizes and colours that have to be taken at different times can cause confusion and ultimately overwhelm the patient. Researchers at the Materials Research [...]
