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In this week’s episode, I recap the devastating effects of experiencing the full week of 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference. Cliff Forster’s PC gaming article causes Snarkasm to bite back, and debating occurs for massive damage. And if you’re not in Warren, MI this weekend, then you’re not at Icrontic Summer Shindig. Be [...] 8 comments
Fusion-io, makers of really really fast SSDs, announced a new line of workstation storage cards, the ioXtreme. Marketed primarily towards workstations used in film and television production, as well as high-end gaming rigs, the ioXtreme has an 80 gigabyte capacity and screaming fast transfer speeds averaging around 520 MB/second. Icrontic spoke with David Flynn, Chief [...] 13 comments
Will Wright is, dare I say it, legendary. He’s a risk taker, a thinker, and a genius. He’s the man responsible for bringing the city sim genre to light when he created Sim City. His games are unique, and almost always non-violent. Also, his games make money, lots of it. I [...] 1 comment
So, you want to go to a con, eh? E3, SIGGRAPH, PAX, Comicon, Blizzcon, GenCon, CES, GDC… Conferences are considered by many to be the mecca of industry-insider resources. News, reveals, hands-on, and speculation, going to a conference can be an incredible experience for anyone interested in the related industries. These generally long trips are [...] 10 comments
As a computer enthusiast, there are events in the history of the industry that will stay with me for a lifetime. AMD toppling the Intel empire with the Athlon, the first time I used a flash drive and the release of Windows XP are all moments that carry a special importance in my memory. I [...] 13 comments
If you’ve never heard of OpenCL, you need to stop whatever you’re doing and read ahead. To begin, we all know that multi-threaded applications have not been as abundant as we had hoped. For those precious few applications that are multi-core aware, few leverage the full potential of two cores, much less the four that [...] 8 comments
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