I think its important to mention here that NewTek is stepping up its marketing efforts. In my previous LightWave review, I took issue with NewTeks marketing for not calling out all the stops for the launch of LightWave [3D] 8. Even though this 64-bit version of LightWave is still in beta testing NewTek has begun rolling the wheels of what seems like a mighty marketing machine. NewTek teamed with Microsoft for the launch of Windows XP 64-bit. LightWave was showcased as cutting edge 3D software taking advantage of this new 64-bit OS. Bill Gates himself compared two animation clips created with LightWave, one rendered with the 32-bit version and the other with the 64-bit version. The 64-bit render is clearly the better of the two, including more detail, effects and animation. At first I thought this was a gimmick but then read that both were rendered in one pass and presumably in a similar amount of time. Hence, LightWave users should prepare to welcome a whole new flock of LightWave devotees. The larger the community, the more stable the community; a good thing by any measure.
LightWave 3D continues to impress, with both the 8.3 upgrade and the soon to be released 64-bit version. Upgrades from any previous standalone version of the software will set you back only $250. Students can purchase the latest version, LightWave 3D [8], for under $250 at many popular online educational software resellers. Full versions of the software sell for less than $1,600, far less than other similar apps. NewTek continues to make a great all-around 3D application for both Windows and Mac systems at very reasonable prices.
We are proud to announce ZBrush 4R7, which will be the final release in the ZBrush 4 series. More information about this version will be made available at a later date. We are currently deep in development of the 64-bit version of ZBrush and 4R7 will be the final 32-bit version.
We will be releasing a 64-bit public beta of ZBrush 4R7 on the same day that the 32-bit version is officially released for both Windows and Macintosh.
We are happy to announce a collaboration between Pixologic and Luxion, creating a Bridge for seamless interaction between ZBrush and KeyShot.
Summit Recaps:
Beyond the teaser above, we have also compiled recap videos from our recent ZBrush Summit. These videos include highlights from the presentations by Walt Disney Animation Studio, Elastic, 3D Systems & Gentle Giant, Hasbro, Legacy Effects, Passion, Red Storm, Ubisoft, Raphael Grassetti, Josh Herman, Vance Kovacs, Dominic Qwek, Maarten Verhoeven and Danny Williams.
Finally, we'll close on something that I've been wanting to look at for a while: AWS's cloud-based 64-bit ARM service offerings. How much of our infrastructure could we shift over onto ARM64-based systems, how much work will that be, and what might the long-term benefits be, both in terms of performance and costs?
So, recapping: Ars runs on WordPress for the front page, a smaller WordPress/WooCommerce instance for the merch store, and XenForo for the OpenForum. All of these applications live as containers in ECS tasks (where "task" in this case is functionally equivalent to a Docker host, containing a number of services). Those tasks are invoked and killed as needed to scale the site up and down in response to the current amount of visitor traffic. Various other components of the stack contribute to keeping the site operational (like Aurora, which provides MySQL databases to the site, or Lambda, which we use to kick off WordPress scheduled tasks, among other things).
Every week, free software activists from around the world cometogether in #fsf on Libera.Chat to helpimprove the FSD, which is a catalog ofuseful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems (notlimited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants) and aproject of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This recaps the work weaccomplished at the Friday, June 16, 2023 meeting, where we saw acouple of new programs added and an entry updated.
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Last week Nvidia announced the GP100 GPU powering the Tesla P100 HPC module. More rumors are surfacing about GP104 as well. Since the full block diagrams for Gp100 are now available, we can also tell what a full GP100 looks like when fully enabled, in this post a little recap on the GP100 architecture and its positioning.
All Pascal products are based on a 16nm FinFet design and the GP100 in particular comes with stacked HBM2 (16GB in four stacks). The Pascal based GPU driving the unit holds 15 Billion transistors which is roughly double that of the current biggest Maxwell chip. Gp100 is huge at 600mm^2. The prognosis performance (according to Nvidia) is 5.3TFLOPS using 64-bit floating-point numbers and is rated at 10.6TFLOPS using 32-bit and 21.2TFLOPS using 16-bit. P100 has 4MB of L2 cache and 14MB of shared memory for just the register file. The following table provides a high-level comparison of Tesla P100 specifications compared to previous-generation Tesla GPU accelerators, however I added the GP100 as a fully enabled product:
After spending some time on Inovato's web site, I found that this U.S.-based company imports T95 Mini TV boxes and installs Debian Bullseye 64-bit on it. They have two models for the Quadra: the less expensive model ($29) comes with a heatsink, case, power supply and HDMI cable; the more expensive model ($39) has everything that the other one does with the addition of 6x faster Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2 and a USB hub. Shipping is about another $10.
Windows 11 is now available as a free upgrade for all eligible Windows 10 devices. However, with this release, Microsoft has updated the minimum system requirements. For example, the new operating system can only run on 64-bit CPUs. While the company has dropped a useful little app to help you confirm eligibility, here is the complete list of Windows 11 minimum requirements:
In the month of August, AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) team has made several feature enhancements that can make your CFM journey a bit easier. Similar to our last recap post 2021 Year-to-Date AWS Cloud Financial Management Updates Recap, we will share these updates by CFM solution area.
If you are using any of the following AWS services, take a look at the updated pricing information: 1) Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference pricing, 2) Amazon MemoryDB for Redis pricing, 3) Amazon Workspaces for new Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 pricing, and 4) AWS IoT Analytics for Mumbai pricing.
To recap the issue, the fatal error only occurred on our Lenovo systems, so it may not happen to you. However, if your workstation also has dual graphics processors and ReCap is crashing, give that a try.
Donald Raab, managing director and distinguished engineer at BNY Mellon, and Rustam Mehmandarov, chief engineer at Computas AS presented Performance and Scale - Domain-Oriented Objects vs Tabular Data Structures. Raab and Mehmandarov started their presentation with a retrospective into the problems with in-memory Java architectures using both 32-bit and 64-bit memory circa 2004. In the 32-bit world, it was challenging for developers to place, say, 6GB of data, into 4GB of memory. The solution was to build their own "small size" Java collections.
The emergence of 64-bit provided some relief, but total heap size became an issue. Compressed Ordinary Object Pointers (OOPS), available with the release of Java 6 in late 2006, allowed developers to create 32-bit references (4 bytes) in 64-bit heaps. Solutions in this case include; building their own memory-efficient mutable Set, Map and List data structures; and building primitive collections for the List, Set, Stack, Bag and Map data structures.
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