Last week at Develop, I heard Doug Binks from Intel deliver a talk on dynamic resolution rendering. It’s a talk that I heard was well received at GDC 2011 in San Francisco in February, but I didn’t attend that conference so this was my first chance to hear it. As promised in my post yesterday [...]
While I was at Develop, I caught up with Doug Binks from Intel, who took a few moments out to tell me about the idea of dynamic resolution rendering, which he has been championing through talks at GDC 2011 and Develop. It’s all about striking the optimal balance between graphic quality and performance by adjusting [...]Last week at Develop in Brighton, I caught up with Sulamita Garcia, technical marketing engineer for Intel. She helps developers to get their apps into Intel’s app store. In this short video, she explains what MeeGo is, where the commercial opportunities are for app developers, and what kind of funding is available for developers. Watch [...]Following a recent post I wrote about Cray’s Chapel language, Patrick Viry got in touch to tell me about his company Ateji, which develops programming languages in Paris, especially the Ateji PX Java extensions. I asked him to tell me more, so here’s our interview… Hello Patrick. Tell me, why was Ateji created? I created [...]I blogged earlier about the presentation by Julien Wera from Ico Partners at Develop 2011, the conference for the games development industry. I wanted to draw out three top tips I picked up from his talk for making a success of public relations for free-to-play games: Talk to the smaller publications. When you’re doing PR [...]This year’s Develop Conference, taking place by the seaside in Brighton, once again kicked off with a day of visionary presentations called Evolve. The message coming through was that the business models in the gaming industry are changing, and while nobody was quite ready to predict the death of the high street game store, everyone [...]If it’s going to take time to parallelise a program, it’s going to cost money. If it’s going to cost money, there needs to be a business case. Often, you need know how much faster you expect the software to be before you begin converting it to parallel. You need to know, for example, whether [...]I know, don’t tell me: you’ve got enough of your own. But there’s a new project I learned about from the proceedings of the HotPar 11 workshop that provides you with a set of documented concurrency bugs you can download. The aim is to provide a benchmark for race, atomicity and deadlock errors (called RADBench) [...]The Economist’s article on parallel programming that I mentioned previously pointed me to a parallel programming language I don’t think I’ve written about before: Chapel, which is being developed by Cray. This year, it celebrates its fifth birthday in the wild, although work began ten years ago when the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency in [...]National Academies Press has taken the surprising and radical step of making 4,000 of its textbooks available for free download in PDF format. Among those titles is ‘The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level?’, which is a new title this year, and which goes into some depth on the multicore challenge and [...]
Several users have written to me requesting information on the new Cosmos X86 assembly level debugger. Because of the great interest I have written this short preview article