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by Published on April 19th, 2012 22:57- Categories:
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S2 Games, creators of the award-winning MOBA title, Heroes of Newerth (HoN) – announced plans today for a massive multi-regional tournament series, DreamHoN, officially sponsored by Alienware Arena and set to headline at the world's largest LAN event, DreamHack Summer 2012. DreamHoN will feature five-man teams from around the globe facing-off in the massively popular session-based MOBA title, Heroes of Newerth. Teams from North America, Europe, South East Asia (SEA), Oceania, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and Korea will all vie for their shot at over $60,000 in prize money and the pride of representing their home territory live at DreamHack Summer 2012 in Jönköping, Sweden. It all kicks off with separate North American, European, and Oceanic qualifiers starting April 23rd.
"We are dedicated to increasing the exposure of our game on a global scale", said Phil Haller, Director of eSports at S2 Games, "There's no better way to do that than taking the best HoN players in the world to one of the biggest eSport events on the planet and let them do what they do best."
Registration for the North American, European, and Oceanic international qualifiers begins April 19th, 2012 and ends April 22nd, 2012. Players should assemble their territory-specific teams and prepare to compete in a two week long qualifier tournament powered by Beyond Gaming. S2 Games' global partners Garena and Ntreev are set to host additional qualifier tournaments in SEA, CIS, and Korea over the next few weeks, making DreamHoN the largest global eSport event in Heroes of Newerth history. The winning team from each international qualifier will receive an all expenses paid invitation to participate in the Live DreamHoN Finals at DreamHack Summer 2012, June 16th – 19th. Additionally, DreamHoN will bring back the ever important DreamHack Bring-Your-Own-Computer (BYOC) Qualifiers, which will find one lucky team of DreamHack attendees fighting their way up the ranks and into the hot seat among some of the best competitive HoN teams in the world. The final piece of the puzzle will be the invitation of reigning three-time DreamHack Champions, FnaticRaidCall, who's ready to jump back into the Heroes of Newerth competitive scene just in time for DreamHack Summer 2012.
With DreamHack Summer 2012 hosting some of the biggest games in eSport,DreamHoN will pit each qualified five-man team head-to-head against one another in a grueling single group stage format. When only four teams remain, a single-elimination best-of-three playoff will determine which regions will collide in the best-of-three DreamHoN championship match. Those lucky enough to attend DreamHack Summer 2012 will have the chance to catch theDreamHoN Finals Live from the DreamArena stage where the winning team will be named DreamHoN Summer 2012 Champions. As always, Honcast and S2 Games will provide live coverage of all the DreamHack festivities throughout the event. Additionally, the North American, European, and Oceanic qualifiers will be covered in their entirety by Honcast and through the HoN in-game stream viewer, HoN-TV. Stay tuned for coverage dates and times and check out the DreamHoN launch trailer at .
Teams ready to take their gaming abroad and smash the international competition in the DreamHoN NA, EU, and Oceanic International Qualifiers should visit http://www.dreamhon.com to register and discover what it takes to be a DreamHoN competitor. Once registered, players will be able to create their teams starting at 12am on April 20th. For more information about Heroes of Newerth visit http://www.heroesofnewerth.com. ...by Published on April 18th, 2012 22:45- Categories:
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British chip boffins ARM announced the availability of a quad core processor dubbed the Cortex A15 MP4, designed to run at up to 2Ghz and likely being targeted at upcoming Windows RT devices.
ARM described the release as a "hard macro implementation" which means that the design is more easily able to be integrated right into chips produced by third-party designers. The design is based on TSMC's 28nm process.
"This new Cortex-A15 hard macro is an important addition to our portfolio and will enable a wider array of partners to leverage the outstanding capabilities of the Cortex-A15 processor," said ARM processor marketing chief Jim Nicholas.
The company reckons that the Cortex-A15 draws no more power than the Cortex-A9, the design in most high-end smartphones today, while delivering performance in excess of 20,000DMIPS at 2GHz.
Chipmakers have already been working on integrating the Cortex-A15 but the 'hard macro' offering is essentially something more pre-packed which makes it even more likely that ARM's top shelf processor will end up in mobile devices.
The bottom line is that it's this type of chip that will go head to head against Intel's Ivy bridge parts as the CPU architecture war plays out in Windows 8 tablets and notebooks later this year.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...-design/028217 ...by Published on April 18th, 2012 22:38- Categories:
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Microsoft aiming to simplify OS after years of complexity.
The firm has said in a blog that the next version of its desktop operating system will come as Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT.
The latter replaces “Windows on ARM or WOA” and “will only be available pre-installed on PCs and tablets powered by ARM processors.”
This simplification runs counter to the Microsoft tradition, which has been to fragment its products into numerous different flavours.
But the re-think represents yet another way in which Microsoft is seeking to position the new OS as the biggest change to Windows since it launched Win 95 in, er, 1995.
The new software borrows heavily from WinPho, in that it features live tiles, swiping and other elements of the phone OS. In this sense, it's part of a wider trend for computer OSs to be designed such that they can run across many splintering form factors - phones, tablets, in-car, PC, TV.
It can now be downloaded in beta now, ahead of its summer launch. 3m developers have already done so.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...lavours/017766 ...by Published on April 18th, 2012 22:35- Categories:
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Platform accounts for 15 per cent of the total time users spend watching full-length shows.
Media network Viacom surveyed Americans aged between eight and 54 to achieve the data. While tablets lead the mobile market for full-length TV show viewing, the devices have also become the second choice overall for show viewing, trailing behind TV itself.
The rise of tablet streaming use has come at the expense of desktop PCs and smartphone, which have both declined.
Interestingly, tablet users view comedy and music the most, which are genres favoured by desktop users, while reality, drama and sci-fi are the most viewed choices on TV.
Colleen Fahey Rush, exec VP and chief research officer, Viacom, said: "We found that the tablet is a jack of many trades - it offers video and social experiences, it's a source of information and it's portable."
Results also show that tablets make 50 per cent of users feel happy and relaxed and 49 per cent said the tablets are effective for life management.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...v-shows/017772 ...by Published on April 18th, 2012 22:31- Categories:
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Just last week, we reported the unveiling of Samsung's dual-core powered Galaxy Tab 2 devices, with 10.1-inch and seven-inch options in the works.
Now, a 'Samsung insider' claims the firm has stopped production of the 10.1-inch model in order to upgrade its dual-core processor to a quad-core version, according to netbooknews.
However, chip specifics are unknown, while it's thought that America may not get the power upgrade, simply receiving the dual-core option as originally planned.
Seemingly, the seven-inch version will retain its original dual-core processor. This is presumably so that Samsung can still retail the device at $249.99 to cover the low end tablet market, a space that the firm still doesn't have any traction in.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...upgrade/017774 ...by Published on April 17th, 2012 12:32- Categories:
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The organisers of the Eurogamer Expo are delighted to announce a new PC and indie consumer games show coming to Brighton this July, with widespread industry support already confirmed.
Rezzed: The PC and Indie Games Show will take place at the Brighton Centre on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th July this year and expects to welcome over 5,000 hardcore PC and indie gamers to Brighton's picturesque seafront.
The Rezzed show floor will offer gamers their first chance to go hands-on with many upcoming PC and high-profile indie games due out later this year, including Aliens: Colonial Marines from Gearbox Software, with many titles to be announced. Attendees will also be able to discover amazing new experiences in The Leftfield Collection, sponsored by SEGA - a collection of up and coming indie titles curated by the editors of PC site Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Eurogamer.net.
Top developers including Creative Assembly (Total War) and The Indie Stone (Project Zomboid) will also be on hand to show their work to the public in the Rezzed developer sessions. More sessions will be announced soon.
Tickets are now on sale at www.rezzedgameshow.com, priced £12 for one day or £20 for a two-day ticket.
Rezzed will feature a range of surrounding activities, including classic game tournaments (Quake 2! Duke Nukem 3D!), a large vendor area (pick up the latest PC hardware, merchandise, board games and more), a range of retro arcade machines and much more.
The show will be brought to life online by exclusive media partners Eurogamer.net and Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Both sites are heavily involved in determining the show's content and panels, and will be reporting throughout the event.
"Following last year's hugely successful fourth Eurogamer Expo, we're broadening our horizons for 2012 by introducing a new summer event to highlight the best of PC and indie games," said Rupert Loman, Managing Director of organiser Eurogamer Network Ltd. "PC and indie games are enjoying huge success now after years in the ascendancy and we want to draw more attention to that fact and give people the opportunity to get up close to the biggest names and games before they're released."
Exclusive games, speakers and activities will be announced in the coming weeks as we lead up to opening day on 6th July. Check outwww.rezzedgameshow.com for more details, follow us on Twitter (@rezzedgameshow) or catch us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/RezzedGameShow).
...by Published on April 17th, 2012 12:25- Categories:
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Scientists, engineers and software developers are always looking for innovative ways to accelerate applications and shorten computational cycles. SoftLayer is looking to help them out by offering a new HPC cloud-based solution consisting of dedicated servers leveraging the latest GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) cards from Nvidia.
SoftLayer’s new offering provides an on-demand, consumptive billing model for High-Performance Computing (HPC) users looking to meet the most compute intensive environments. These environments include traditional HPC fields such as data mining, numerical and seismic analysis as well advertising agencies and web design shops looking to develop interactive games, applications and 3D content.
“Using GPUs for running applications is an emerging trend in HPC today. Computing requirements continue to skyrocket but users remain as demanding as ever. They want capacity on-demand and prefer to pay only for what they use. It is incumbent on hosters to deliver this capacity in a cloud-like fashion if they want to break into this market,” said Philbert Shih, Managing Director, Structure Research Ltd. “Giving people the ability to scale GPU resources adds incredible flexibility in the way research, engineering and development projects are conducted. By putting such raw computational power into a user’s hands, in an easy pay as you go model, the focus is on research results not acquiring or maintaining the latest technology.”
SoftLayer’s new HPC hosting solution consists of dual-processor Intel E5-2600 (Sandy Bridge) based servers supporting one or two Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs. GPUs work in conjunction with the server’s CPU to accelerate application and processing performance. The GPU will offload compute intensive portions of the application from the CPU to accelerate overall performance of the machine, dramatically boosting application performance by running in tandem with the CPU. As a result, SoftLayer users will see a massive performance boost and HPC applications accelerated by as much as ten times.
“We are offering breakthrough performance in a unique delivery model,” said Duke Skarda, Chief Technology Officer of SoftLayer. “The beauty of this solution is the way users can break down to toughest computational problems and largest blocks of data to work them in parallel over our network driving quicker results. GPU technology is still in its infancy but customer demand continues to soar as more and more HPC applications get migrated over to cloud infrastructures.”
“Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers like SoftLayer are pushing the technological envelope by making the latest technology accessible and scalable through a cloud offering,” said Sumit Gupta, General Manager of Tesla HPC at Nvidia. “This technology is all about performance without compromise and we found a partner in SoftLayer committed to enabling cloud computing services that enable GPU computing from anywhere around the world.”
Key features and benefits:
- Cost effective HPC (ideal for scientific and technical computing)
- Massive compute performance increase while accelerating application speeds by up to 10x
- Cluster management and GPU monitoring
- Parallel compute environment operates invisibly to the user
- GPUs specifically designed to work as computational accelerators
by Published on April 16th, 2012 21:46- Categories:
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The moment has finally arrived: Eben Upton's Linux-powered dream of a super-cheap PC that couldrevolutionize the way we teach computer science begins shipping from today. RS Components and Allied Electronics have begun to mail the dinky devices out to the lucky pre-order customers who managed to get through before the overwhelming interest forced the servers offline. If you missed out originally,Model B is now available in the UK for £31.86 (inclusive of VAT and P&P) or $35 in the States -- if you'd like to see the momentous occasion when Mr. Upton personally delivered the first batch of devices, head on past the break
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/16/r...gins-shipping/ ...by Published on April 16th, 2012 21:19- Categories:
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Hot on the heels of the most successful storage mediums of all time — MiniDisc and Zip disks — Sony has announced the Optical Disc Archive, a system that seems to cram up to 30 Blu-ray discs into a single, one-inch-thick plastic cassette, which will have a capacity of between 300GB and 1.5TB. As far as I can tell, the main selling point of the Optical Disc Archive is, just like MiniDisc, the ruggedness of the cassettes. Optical discs themselves are fairly resistant to changes in temperature and humidity, and the cassettes are dust and water resistant. What is the use case for these 1.5TB MiniDiscs, though? In terms of pure storage capacity, tape drives are still far superior (you can store up to 5TB on a tape!) In terms of speed and flexibility, hard drives are better. If you're looking for ruggedness, flash-based storage is smaller, lighter, and can easily survive a dip in the ocean. The Optical Disc Archive might be good as extensible storage for TV PVRs, like TiVo and Sky+ — but as yet, we don't even know the cost of the system or the cassettes, and I doubt either will be cheap.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...-like-cassette ...by Published on April 16th, 2012 21:15- Categories:
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Veteran developer believes realization of Sci-fi tech possible in 3-5 years
Valve's Michael Abrash has revealed that he is developing prototype 'wearable computing' hardware in a blog post on the company website.
"By 'wearable computing' I mean mobile computing where both computer-generated graphics and the real world are seamlessly overlaid in your view," he said, "there is no separate display that you hold in your hands (think Terminator vision)."
Citing enhanced demand for "computing available in more places", Abrash, a veteran of the original Doom and Quake, thinks this is "the most valuable thing I could do at Valve."
"It all started with Snow Crash," he said, refering to Niel Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel.
In Snow Crash, much of the action takes place in the 'metaverse'; a virtual reality successor to the internet, in which those who use physical access points are stigmatized.
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