Computing News

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Personal Computing

• Super iPad

• Virtual reality contact lens

• 30% saving in laptop power consumption

• 3D camera for cell phones

• 55 inch OLED TV

• 3D TV without glasses

• First netbooks, then tablets, now ultrabooks

• NVIDIA Tegra 2 (soon 3) smartphones

F-Bomb throwaway hacking

• Cheap surveillance computer package

• Dropped from planes or drones

Societal Impactors

• $10M Medical Tricordor XPRIZE

• Voice understanding

• Supercomputing on demand from the Cloud

• Helping the poor via technology– Medical

– Education

– Knowledge

– Market access

– computation

Printable high-performance electronics

Swarming formations of quadcopters

Exascale computing

• How fast is exasclace?– Global data storage is aroung 300 exabytes (2007)

– So processing of entire global data store in 5 minutes?

• GPU based exascale computing

• The problem of software for 100 – 1000 cores

• Europe funds exascale research at higher level than US

nVIDIA Echelon architecture