A team of researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a highly scalable computer code that will significantly cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards.
Mark Cerny - lead system architect of Sony's Playstation 4 (PS4) - says the Japanese-based corporation adopted a "very developer-centric approach" to the next-gen console.
Nvidia's GPU conference has become one of the more interesting industry events as the graphics market scales up to supercomputing and down to in-car navigation and entertainment systems.
Nvidia has confirmed that a number of top enterprise and mobile application companies are using high-end GPUs to process big data analytics and advanced search for both consumer and commercial applications.
ARM has confirmed a significant increase in the use of its stalwart Mali GPU which reached more than 150 million processors in 2012 - with licensing jumping by some 30% in 2012 across the smartphone, tablet and graphic-enabled Digital TV (DTV) markets.
Akihiro Suzuki of the Dynasty Warriors franchise says the Wii U's CPU - which features three Power PC cores - poses certain "challenges" for developers.
Nvidia has unveiled a platform that allows the delivery of a virtualized desktop to any connected device - with the graphics and GPU capabilities of a PC or workstation.
