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My Netbook Journey – Finding the fruits of the garden with my Atom

By Darla Worden (Intel) (2 posts) on March 11, 2010 at 7:18 am
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My PDA died. It was an old Palm and had served me well. I asked my teammate to recommend a new one and he said “iPod Touch”. I took his advice and OMG, I have been living on another planet! Sure I used my Palm to keep myself organized, but it [...]

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Category: Cool Software, Gaming, Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility, Social Media & Virtual Worlds, What If Software

Calling all Geeks! Get your fuzzy slippers and some popcorn -it's KVM time!

By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (97 posts) on March 10, 2010 at 2:53 pm
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Intel® vPro™ technology now adds the capability to do KVM Remote Control out of band.  Now an IT Professional can remotely control the keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) of a system with Intel AMT 6.0.  For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the release of Intel(r) Active Management Technology 6.0 which includes KVM Remote Control, [...]

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Category: Manageability

DigitalArts 003 - GDC Interview with Carmen Rizzo, The World IS Music

By Steve Pitzel (Intel) (40 posts) on March 10, 2010 at 2:52 pm
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 The World is Carmen Rizzo's Personal Recording Studio Carmen Rizzo can take accoustic music from the far corners of the earth mix it with a sound whose DNA comes from the most inner reaches of computer technology, and turn it into music that takes you into an entirely new world. Whether this two-time Grammy Nominee is producing a song for [...]

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Category: Uncategorized

DigitalArts 002 - GDC Interview with Justin Lassen, The Musical Side of Darkness

By Steve Pitzel (Intel) (40 posts) on March 10, 2010 at 1:02 pm
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How much time do you have left to create? Hearing sound, seeing color - composer, musician, artist, Justin Lassen epitomizes the essence of synaesthesia, and his work of the same name, Synaesthesia, a project 5 years in the making that pairs him with some of most gifted CG artists in the world,  so closely intertwines the [...]

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Category: Art, Music, & Animation, Visual Computing

60 Seconds to a Great Game Idea - Level Up 2010

By Kelly Lowry (Intel) (2 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 9:48 pm
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In the last 6 months I've had the opportunity to talk to game developers from all over the world about Level Up, the Intel® Visual Adrenaline Game Demo Challenge.   I've enjoyed hearing about the ideas for these great new games.  The excitement is contagious and I can't wait to see some of these ideas come [...]

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Category: Art, Music, & Animation, Gaming, Visual Computing

Tickertape game demo - Use of Real Time 3D Aerodynamics with Video

By Arti Gupta (Intel) (43 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm
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Watch and hear Quentin Froemke a software engineer from Intel, talk about the tickertape game demo released today by Intel. This game demo shows a 3d particle system. By using multi threading and SIMD programming they have achieved good frame rates for this demo even though the calculations are fairly complex. This [...]

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Category: Gaming, Visual Computing

Say the password to get on the beta list for StarCraft II

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (15 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 4:44 pm
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To be part of the beta group for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty™ all you need to do is know the secret password. During the next few days of GDC Intel will be passing along secret passwords in Twitter. If you find these daily passwords and can tell the StarCraft Demo team at [...]

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Category: Events, Gaming, Visual Computing

TickerTape game demo - Benefits of SIMD programming

By Arti Gupta (Intel) (43 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 4:28 pm
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Ticker Tape is a tech demo that encourages developers to implement more complex behavior in particle systems. The demo uses a number of techniques to improve performance, including multithreading and optimizations for Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE). An overview of the article can be found here and the demo can be downloaded from there as well. [...]

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Category: Gaming, Visual Computing

Ticker Tape: A Scalable 3D Particle System with Wind and Air Resistance

By Arti Gupta (Intel) (43 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 4:18 pm
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In this article, we discuss our approach to simulating 3D particle behavior and the modular design we used that encourages reuse and experimentation. Additionally, we look into the performance gains achieved through threading and use of Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE). You sneak down the hall and pause just outside the office door, where two [...]

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Category: Gaming, Visual Computing

Tickertape - New 3D particle system game demo

By Arti Gupta (Intel) (43 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 2:10 pm
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You sneak down the hall and pause just outside the office door, where two enemy guards wait inside. You pull the pin on a grenade and toss it into the room. Blam! After the blast, you enter the office and find the guards dead, but something just isn’t right. The papers stacked on the desks [...]

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Category: Gaming, Visual Computing

I just discovered Valgrind, it's about time.

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (128 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 12:37 pm
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Most of my coding career at Intel was been spend using C#, but with the mesh project, we needed to build the background peer-to-peer agent as small and as portable as possible and coding it in C made sense. Well, anything you code in raw C code, there are plenty of opportunities for problems. I [...]

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Category: Open Source

Overheating in a million gallons of water (a MID saga)

By Dale Taylor (Intel) (47 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 9:39 am
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On a family boating trip, our engine was overheating.  The warning system kicked in and actually cut engine power into a limp along mode until we could anchor safely.  While the kids swam I was able to use my MID to get online and do some searching to figure out what the problem was! Out boat [...]

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Category: Mobility

"If you want to be creative, get out there and do it. It's not a waste of time."

By Steve Pitzel (Intel) (40 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 8:15 am
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I have to admit, I've gotten a wee bit jaded over time. I've seen a lot of  Academy Award-winners give lots of speeches. I don't fault the folks for the "me" moment it usually becomes - sooo much work goes into every aspect of film-making, and so much of it requires a commitment so far [...]

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Category: Art, Music, & Animation, Visual Computing

Achieving High Web Throughput with VMware vSphere 4 on Intel Xeon 5500 series (Nehalem) servers

By Bill Pearson (Intel) (40 posts) on March 8, 2010 at 3:48 pm
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Something came across my inbox recently that I just had to share.  I just finished watching The Bucket List.  One of my favorite scenes was when Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson are racing around the track driving these classic muscle cars.  The need for speed is alive and well it seems. We've been working with our [...]

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Category: Virtualization

Using the Media SDK - Simple DirectShow Trancoding

By Eric Sardella (Intel) (11 posts) on March 8, 2010 at 2:33 pm
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Calling all developers working with media technologies! If you haven’t already, download and learn Intel’s Media SDK 1.5. Its easier then DXVA code and using it ensures you are forward compatible with future Intel hardware. Check it out.. Download it here. Need a quick way to transcode a clip? Use the Media SDK’s DirectShow filters to [...]

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Category: Media, Uncategorized, Visual Computing
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