Computing Conference

Vendors air the cloud's pros and cons — Industry officials promoted the benefits but also noted the challenges posed by cloud computing at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo conference last Friday afternoon, citing economics as a plus for the concept and security as a concern.Cloud computing features users accessing services deployed by a third party's infrastructure rather than using their own in-house systems. The concept offers improved economics, with a shared infrastructure and elasticity, said Preeti Somal, vice president of research and development at VMware, during a general session at the event, in San Jose, Calif.[ Confused about cloud computing? Check out InfoWorld's news feature, "What cloud... [Tags: accessing services, api layer, application model, computing conference, datacenter]

OpenCL gets touted in Texas — Attendees at the SC08 high-performance computing conference in Austin got a progress report on OpenCL, the the Apple-spearheaded parallel computing API that figures to be a prominent new feature in the upcoming Snow Leopard update to OS X.... [Tags: api, apple, attendees, computing conference, high performance]

Sixty start-ups gathered today to talk at the Emerging Companies Summit about how they’re using graphics technologies in their businesses. The summit was one of the many sub-conferences at the Nvision 08 Visual Computing conference in San Jose. Jeff Herbst, (left) vice president of business development at Nvidia (sponsor of Nvision and the summit), said the company had many more applicants for the 60 presentation slots than it could accommodate. Those chosen came from 16 different countries. None of those companies is creating a new graphics chip. The industry has moved on to funding start-ups that take advantage of ubiquitous... [Tags: business start ups, chief scientist, computer vision, computing conference, design improvements]

Q&A with Nvidia CEO: Jen-Hsun Huang on visual computing, tension with Intel, and product bugs — Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, started his graphics chip company in 1993 and is now the last man standing. Back then, no one could have expected PCs and game machines to become so powerful that they spawned an entire visual computing ecosystem. In a speech in San Jose, Calif., Huang talked about how expansive visual computing has become. Video games and movie special effects are only the tip of the iceberg for visual computing, which encompasses everything from digital art to medical imaging. Huang is celebrating the growth of this ecosystem this week with his own new visual computing... [Tags: accelerators, artistic element, artistic expression, artistic medium, chip company]

San Jose decides it's 'Visual Computing Week' — And just where does that leave National Bowling Week? The heat rising from San Jose isn't merely an effect of a convention center full of GTX 280 cards being flipped on at once. Nvidia's decision to host its inaugural computing conference, Nvision 08, this week in the company's home town has fanned the flames of passion inside city officials.…... [Tags: bowling, cards, city officials, computing conference, flames]

NVIDIA disses Larrabee, cops to underestimating ATI — As NVIDIA's first visual computing conference, NVISION, kicks off, the company has had some harsh words for Intel's Larrabee. ATI also gets a mention, though NVIDIA is confident it will regain the performance crown long term. Read More...... [Tags: computing conference, cops, harsh words, intel, nvidia]