Blogs » Rita Turkowski (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs Fri, 25 May 2012 22:49:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Check out this McCool event in December at UPCRC http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/10/22/check-out-this-mccool-event-in-december-at-upcrc/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/10/22/check-out-this-mccool-event-in-december-at-upcrc/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:09:12 +0000 Rita Turkowski (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/10/22/check-out-this-mccool-event-in-december-at-upcrc/ December 3rd at 4PM CST

12/3 | 4PM | 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

UPCRC Illinois Research Seminar: A Structured, Unified Approach to Multi-Core and Many-Core Computing - with Applications by Michael McCool, Intel & U of Waterloo

]]> http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/10/22/check-out-this-mccool-event-in-december-at-upcrc/feed/ 0 Ct technology session at Intel Developer Forum in ~2 weeks http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/09/11/ct-technology-session-at-intel-developer-forum-in-2-weeks/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/09/11/ct-technology-session-at-intel-developer-forum-in-2-weeks/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:40:43 +0000 Rita Turkowski (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/09/11/ct-technology-session-at-intel-developer-forum-in-2-weeks/ Come visit us at IDF in SF at Moscone on Sept 23rd at 3:00PM in room 2000 and meet me, our technical consulting engineers Amanda Sharp and Noah Clemons (formerly of RapidMind), and Anwar Ghuloum, our Ct architect. Amanda and Anwar will be delivering "Simplifying Data Parallel Applications for Your Manycore Future" at 3:05. Come any day during IDF, ask for me or Amanda, and we'll give you a demo or tutorial of what Intel Ct technology is all about and explain how it can help you parallelize your throughput computing applications.

In the meanwhile, consider signing up for our Ct technology newsletter and we hope to see you soon in sunny San Francisco!

]]> http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/09/11/ct-technology-session-at-intel-developer-forum-in-2-weeks/feed/ 0 Intel's Ct folks to be at Siggraph http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/08/03/intels-ct-folks-to-be-at-siggraph/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/08/03/intels-ct-folks-to-be-at-siggraph/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:53:03 +0000 Rita Turkowski (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/08/03/intels-ct-folks-to-be-at-siggraph/ Ct at SIGGRAPH this week, beta sign-ups and class at IDF in September

 

Two opportunities to meet with us to talk about our product plans for Ct technology are happening – one this week, one in a little more than a month.

 

This week at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans, several of us from Intel Software's developer products division (DPD) are at the Intel booth to talk with you and take your feedback as we are working toward the first public beta of our product later this year. More information at http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-network-at-siggraph-2009

So, if you will be at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans this week, August 4-6th, please stop by the Intel booth, and ask for Rita.

 

You can also meet Anwar Ghuloum our chief architect for the Ct project. Anwar will be on an industry analyst and press panel hosted by Jon Peddie at SIGGRAPH on Wednesday August 5th. More information is available at http://jonpeddie.com/events/details/siggraph-2009.

 

 

Next month – we will be at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco to meet people interested in Ct technology, and to give a few classes. We’ll also unveil more details about our product plans, have demos and provide information on signing up for the beta program (which will begin by the end of the year).

 For more information, see http://software.intel.com/en-us/data-parallel/ and feel free to drop me an e-mail at rita.b.turkowski@intel.com.

]]> http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/08/03/intels-ct-folks-to-be-at-siggraph/feed/ 0 Why 3D interchange tools help market hardware http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/12/22/why-3d-interchange-tools-help-market-hardware/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/12/22/why-3d-interchange-tools-help-market-hardware/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:47:01 +0000 Rita Turkowski (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/12/22/why-3d-interchange-tools-help-market-hardware/ The blog link below is an interesting example of why Intel should be supporting COLLADA (which we do btw). This user wants to enhance the quality of her photoshop work by using 3D objects with shaders applied, and use (and interchange) different DCC tools to achieve her best model effect.

Unfortunately due to weak exporters (FBX or COLLADA), shaders are not exported as well as they could be, thus there is no easy way for end users to use the high end shaders they create in a DCC tool (and supported on their good quality graphics cards). This in turn lowers their motivation in buying a high end graphics cards such as a Larrabee card.  What's the point if you can't get to the highest end content from the tools you know and use daily? From my own selfish perspective, this could also  potentially damage any differentiation of technology I would want to show we have over our competition.

http://doloresjoya.com/blog/2008/11/25/3d-rose-shader-network-collada-dae/

So, why is this important? Well, from a marketing perspective, if you can't market the differentiation in content from a wide variety of quality DCC tools, your job is sorely limited to "canned" differentiation demo's of good 3D content. Imagine the viral ability to be able to grab a piece of quality 3D content from almost any DCC tool (and most today do support COLLADA well enough), demo it's Larrabee differentiators, and leave your audience "wowed." I look forward to this day and am working to bring us there.

So, go out and make content and demand that your favorite hardware best support your favorite tools. Long live CONTENT!

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Kudo's to John for keeping the virtual worlds torch lit for Intel.

Afternoon Keynote - Virtual Worlds Roadmap Keynote
A cross industry team will present a framework and effort to publish virtual world case studies and descriptions of the technical and business barriers to future mass market adoption of specific virtual world applications. The session will invite the audience to contribute to virtual world industry predictions, analysis, and ideas for lowering barriers to innovation.

]]> http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/09/22/virtual-worlds-london-has-some-quality-speakers/feed/ 0 Content sells hardware http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/05/03/content-sells-hardware/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/05/03/content-sells-hardware/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 21:06:18 +0000 Rita Turkowski (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/05/03/content-sells-hardware/ I just had coffee with an old friend, an M.D. (and an active extreme gamer) active in building a virtual world for medical emergency preparedness. He's very excited about his work, and said he receives avatars and location models from many sources around the world in his medical circles, and is now building a repository to store these models. He's asking his medical community contributors to use COLLADA as the export format so he can have one consistent file format in his hopefully long living content repository. I said to him that sometimes it's kind of hard to evangelize something I know well the value of in software content development, COLLADA, to folks who really only understand hardware. His response to this? It was one simple sentence:  Easy: content sells hardware! Without great content, and the ability to easily get to and reuse that content to make even better content, the desire to buy more and better hardware is limited. People buy computers to get the work done that needs doing, or to use some cool content, such as a well-made game. Games drive 3D tech research now, games drive the desire for better and better hardware, and games drive PC sales, no matter how many pundits in our industry say otherwise. In other words, content STILL drives hardware sales. Content is still King. Long live great content! Go out and make some of your own ;-).

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]]> http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/04/03/virtual-worlds-2008-in-ny-first-sessions-day/feed/ 0 Cool video snippets in Intel's GDC booth on COLLADA http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/31/cool-video-snippets-in-intels-gdc-booth-on-collada/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/31/cool-video-snippets-in-intels-gdc-booth-on-collada/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:39:57 +0000 Rita Turkowski (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/31/cool-video-snippets-in-intels-gdc-booth-on-collada/ We were fortunate to have several very cool DCC tool ISVs demo COLLADA in the Intel GDC booth this year and Intel's ISN team captured these interviews for us:

COLLADA, Tools and Intel Graphics:
Luxology MODO 302, Softimage XSI, or see http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/videos/home.aspx

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Someone needs to do something similar for virtual worlds applications (as they emerge).

]]> http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/31/this-is-cool-for-tracking-mmo-popularity/feed/ 0 so many pixels, so little time... http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/15/so-many-pixels-so-little-time/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/15/so-many-pixels-so-little-time/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:23:08 +0000 Rita Turkowski (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/15/so-many-pixels-so-little-time/ ...and just how do graphics software developers keep up with all the action going on today? How to choose the best graphics software opportunities to pursue is probably a good problem to have however ;-). Many years ago, it must be 15+ now, I recall some of my co-workers wearing a cute t-shirt made especially for Siggraph fun. It depicted a stick figure shoveling what appeared to be (RGB colored) pixels into a wheelbarrow with the quote on the shirt front "So many pixels..." and the back of the t-shirt showing "So little time!" At the time, I empathized being overwhelming busy working on 2D and 3D "in house" graphics formats at the time.

Fast forward a decade or more and I can safely say not only has the pace of application development quickened significantly for all things pixel, but commercial graphics applications in general have increased probably over an order of magnitude from where we were as a graphics industry a decade + back. This being my first blog for Intel, and being at Intel in a growing and very exciting visual computing software group almost 4 months now, I would love to hear more on how many successful commercial graphics app's were out in the early 90's (Photoshop, Freehand, Director, Illustrator, AutoCad, a few games for Mac and PC, etc. come to mind) vs. today (besides the decades-long updates to the very popular Adobe and Autodesk applications), since there are literally hundreds of small graphics applications out there slinging pixels and more -- much more. It's an exciting time to be marketing graphics application support tools for Intel and I hope you will be inspired to comment here and tell me what you'd like to see Intel support for great graphics and game software development tools to make your job easier, and hopefully more fun! And, yes, I would love to hear about what you're working on too!    

 -next up:  3D standards, game profiling, the 3D internet, middleware support - you tell me! - rita

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