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X-FAB Expands Management TeamErfurt, Germany, 二月 10, 2011.
X-FAB Silicon Foundries Group today announced that Rudi De Winter will join the Board of Directors and also assume the role of co-CEO effective Feb. 14, 2011. In his new role, Mr. De Winter will work closely with Hans-Juergen Straub, the current CEO of X-FAB, and join him to accelerate the company's growth as the leading "More than Moore" foundry. Rudi De Winter will be responsible for Research & Development, Marketing, Sales and Quality, and Hans-Juergen Straub will focus on Operations, Finance and Control, Human Resources and Administration.
The appointment of Rudi De Winter further strengthens X-FAB's management team to support strong sales and the company's future growth. Rudi De Winter, who began his career as a development engineer in the semiconductor industry 25 years ago, served the last 14 years as CEO and co-CEO of Melexis, the largest fabless automotive semiconductor company.
Hans-Juergen Straub commented: "I am very delighted to welcome Rudi De Winter to our team. X-FAB as an international pure-play foundry group is set to continue on its growth path, aiming to further expand revenues and strengthen its position as the leading 'More than Moore' foundry. The appointment of Rudi De Winter will greatly contribute to achieving these goals."
Rudi De Winter commented: "I look forward to my new role at X-FAB. Having led a fabless company provides an excellent framework for understanding foundry customer expectations, thus creating a win-win for X-FAB and its customers."
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this will probably be removed, but for the hell of it, here ya go.
it looks pretty cool. why you think it would be removed? cheers, DJ
Primitive tech or not, it looks to be a useful explanation, especially if as you say ground truth and mindshare say something different from the typical commercial map. Is your worry that Google would prefer folks not use their data as a basemap? Look up "open street map" for a much more freely useable dataset.
Since you note the interstate corridors as main boundaries, I wonder if the "wrong but typical" definitions just predate the interstates. Bring in the bulldozers on that scale, and start limiting traffic across the expressways, and you definitely bust up old patterns.
Neither the "official" districting nor this one really jive with the way I navigate Wichita. There isn't much in "Southwest Wichita" other than the airport. Sure, there are some housing developments and Pawnee Prairie Park, but if someone wants to talk about that area, they just say "near the airport." Likewise with the south east: it's dominated by McConnell, and most of the businesses and housing in that area directly support the base. Really, I think of the Interstates more as arteries and less as boundaries. The areas to either side tend to be similar to one another unless there's another feature alongside that creates a more definite division, such as the Big Ditch.
That said, I lived my first 30 years in Wichita, but I think the only neighborhoods I could identify would be Riverside, Westlink, Delano, College Hill, Oaklawn, Eastborough, and McCormick. And the only reason that last one's on there is because I bought a house there and learned way more than I ever needed to know about the neighborhood as a result.
The experience of navigating the city may be different depending on where you've lived. I spent most of my life on the west side, near 13th and Maize, before moving to Riverside. My perception of the city was always a bit different than my friend, who lived her entire life in the South High School district. Come to think of it, I may not be the best source for how to look at the city, since every time I draw a map of it, I put east at the top.
I am a bit surprised that you don't call out Haysville and Derby as strongly as you do Maize and Goddard. Actually, Goddard's far enough out that I don't think many people would confuse it with being part of the city, it's enormous school district notwithstanding.
@ Djekspek I figured it would be removed as its obviously not a fantasy or scifi type of map.
Well when it comes to the differences of the west side, and the east side for instance, there are other differences.
I have never been one to point fingers, but the east sides economy, is much more how should i say this..... RICH
For instance when you go to the east side, you will find that Town East Mall has 2.5 times the amount of space Town West Mall has. The shops are more uppity (For instance town west mall's most expensive shop is like...Jc Penny's or Dillards, where as the town east mall has those 2, and a whole buttload of other incredibly expensive shops for the wealthy) the people who shop there are more....financially stable-looking. Less rift-raft. Go to the town west mall, and while you do have financially stable looking people, prejudices aside, you will see more "ghetto" looking people. Lower class income if you will.
Plus the Town East Mall has 2 levels to itself, where as the Town West Mall has 1 level.
Another example of the east side versus the west side would be the east sides shopping complexes have much more fancier establishments. The brickwork and mortar designs are fancier, the layouts are fancier.
The west sides closest example of anything on the east side would be New Market Square, and even that is lacking. They try to be fancy, but it just does NOT replicate the east side. And the shops tend to be less uppity.
Another observation, would be nearly 99% of cars being driven on the east side are makes from 2001-2012. very few older looking cars.
Go to the west side and only about 75% of the cars are made from 2001-2012. There are a substantial amount of older cars being driven about.
Now lets take the east side and compare it to the south side.
major difference. low class income is infamous in the south side. gangs are more numerous. rift raft and minorities are more numerous. shopping districts are ran down. there is a higher poverty llevel. more homeless people. More people riding buses and walking the streets.
theres more cops, WAY more cops.
the stores are dirtier, the people are more homely looking.
70% of the people who shop at walmart use food stamps to buy food (im a manager at a particular walmart).
go to the east side and 5% of the people who shop at walmart use food stamps.
go to the west side and 15% of the people use food stamps.
so technically there are differences, but in the world of friendliness and prejudices, I didnt immediately open up the thread with those differences out of mutual respect.
Don't know much about Wichita. But as far as maps of real places, the Cartographers' Guild is focused on map design - any kind of map. Real places, fictional places, fantasy, sci-fi, post apocalyptic, any kind of map applies at the CG. While most of us are RPG mappers, that is not a requirement, some are actual GIS mappers, one of us is a National Geographic mapper. Maps of real places is fine content for the CG.
yeah, fantasy, sci-fi or real world, maps is maps... as for re-using others works in maps: Not sure if you created the base map yourself, but if not, you should check the usage license of the source you used. cheers, DJ
Well, I can't disagree with you in terms of economics, although it's surprising the number of the city's millionaires who live in relatively unassuming houses on the west side! My comments were aimed mostly at navigation. I've never told someone that a place was in "south-central Wichita." I'll often tell them it's near 31st and Seneca, though. Most of the people in my circle make reference to intersections more than any kind of districts. That's an entirely different story to here in Los Angeles, of course, where nobody could be expected to know more than a few of the really major streets. Instead, everyone makes reference to cities, and even then nobody really knows all of them. You sometimes have to mention two or three to get people to understand where you're talking about.
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Talk about challenges: Marc Elliot has to worry about going to the bathroom throughout the day and in ways most of us can't imagine. He has involuntary tics and says things that can be hurtful to others. It's the combination of a rare disease that has left him with almost no intestines and a neurological disorder called Tourette's syndrome. Elliot is bringing his story to Volunteer State Community College as part of a presentation on tolerance.
People have called Marc Elliot's presentation "inspirational" and "powerful." It may be his use of humor that will surprise audience members. He tries to show the very human way he handles his disorders and how the public often reacts to him. Elliot will speak at Vol State on September 8 at 12:15 p.m. The event will be held in the auditorium at Caudill Hall. It is free and open to everyone.
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NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultraby Anand Lal Shimpi on August 14, 2000 9:01 AM EST
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NVIDIA has been executing perfectly ever since the release of their TNT back in 1998. It was October 1998 that NVIDIA's first TNT based cards began shipping by Diamond. Just about one year later, NVIDIA successfully executed the launch of their TNT2 and TNT2 Ultra based products, which eventually overshadowed the Voodoo3 that preceded it.
The TNT2 Ultra release was the last product NVIDIA brought to market before they switched to a 6-month product cycle. This new cycle truly strained their competitors since 3dfx was unable to produce the Voodoo4/5 in time to compete with NVIDIA's next product, the GeForce, which was released 6 months after the TNT2 Ultra.
The GeForce was an instant hit, there was nothing available that could possibly compete with it and as more mature drivers were released for the card, its performance did nothing but improve. 3dfx, ATI, Matrox and the now defunct graphics division of S3 had no way of competing with the GeForce and the later versions of the card that featured Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR). If they couldn't compete with the GeForce, there was no way they would be able to catch up in time for the launch of the GeForce2 GTS just 6-months later.
However, the GeForce2 GTS was met with some competition as 3dfx's Voodoo5 5500 was launched at around the same time and speculation began to form about ATI's Radeon chip, but even then, we all knew that 6 months after the GTS' release, NVIDIA would have yet another product that would help them to distance themselves from the competition yet again.
This brings us up to the present day. While we were patiently waiting for the elusive 'NV20' from NVIDIA, NVIDIA has been shipping 32MB and 64MB GeForce2 GTS cards to make their current customer base happy. With the release of the GeForce2 MX as well as the new Quadro2, it is clear that NVIDIA has really got their act together, and that it has also built up the expectations we had for NV20, the code name of their next product.
We expected NV20 to literally blow everything away; it would mark a depart from the standard GeForce2 GTS core and present us with NVIDIA's equivalent of ATI's HyperZ technology that allows for very efficient memory bandwidth usage. Rumors began hitting the message boards and newsgroups, which speculated on the NV20's incredible specifications. Everyone expected the NV20 to have a 300MHz+ core clock, incredibly fast DDR memory, and an insane amount of memory bandwidth which would be courtesy of its 'borrowing' some techniques from tile-based rendering architectures.
Using our trusty calendar skills, and NVIDIA's promise to stick to a 6-month product cycle, this put the release of the NV20 in September 2000, under one month away. With ATI's Radeon only able to beat a GeForce2 GTS by 10 – 20%, the NV20 would only have to be that much faster in order to beat ATI's latest creation, and NVIDIA's closest competitor. We already assumed the NV20 would be much faster than the Radeon right off the bat.
The specifications we were all expecting were amazing, but guess what guys 'n gals? The wonderful NV20 won't be here until next year. That's right, Spring 2001 is when you can expect to see the NV20, but NVIDIA won't be departing from their 6-month product cycle schedule, they are simply departing from what they define a "product" as.
Originally, NVIDIA's plans were to release a new chip every Fall and they would have another version of the product every Spring, a sort of "Spring Refresh," as they liked to call it. Now, the GeForce has already gotten it's "Spring Refresh," the GeForce2 GTS, but now, apparently the GeForce2 GTS isn't feeling very "fresh" and NVIDIA has decided to give it another refresh, this time in the Fall.
Update 8/17/2000: There have been reports that the NV20 won't be delayed and it will be released on time contrary to what we've published here. We met with NVIDIA in person and asked them their stance on the issue, according to NVIDIA the NV20 will be out in 4 to 8 months from the release of the GeForce2 Ultra (September). This places the release of the NV20 about 6 months from when the Ultra hits the streets which can be as early as January or as late as May. If you take the average of that range, you get a March release, which does fall in line with our statement of a Spring 2001 launch.
So what is this ultra-fresh GeForce2 going to be called? None other than the GeForce2 Ultra of course.
We'll let the shock set in before moving on to the specs of this chip…
The Chip
The architecture of the GeForce2 Ultra is identical to that of the GeForce2 GTS. It features the same four rendering pipelines and the ability to process two textures per pipeline per clock.
The only difference that exists is that the GeForce2 Ultra uses an "advanced" 0.18-micron process allowing it to reach a higher operating clock speed. The GeForce2 GTS runs at 200MHz by default, and the average GeForce2 GTS can overclock to approximately 238MHz with the best of the best able to hit 250MHz.
The GeForce2 Ultra ships, by default, at 250MHz, which proves one of two things: NVIDIA either 1) did improve the 0.18-micron process thus allowing for higher clock speeds to be obtained (since we could overclock far beyond 250MHz as well) or 2) they are simply hand-picking the chips that can hit the higher core clocks.
The latter seems to be true, as it would make the most sense for them; it is also what they did with the original TNT2 Ultra in comparison to the TNT2. The parts that made it to the higher core clock were marked as Ultra parts and those that didn't were simply regular TNT2s. This is most likely the case with the GeForce2 GTS and the GeForce2 Ultra: the higher clocked Ultras are probably the higher yielding GeForce2 chips.
At 250MHz, the GeForce2 Ultra has a pixel fill rate of 1000 Megapixels per second, or 1 Gigapixel/s; this is a 25% increase in pixel fill rate over the GeForce2 GTS. And since the GeForce2 Ultra, like its predecessor, can process two textures per clock, the Ultra has a texel fill rate of 2000 Megatexels/s or 2 Gigatexels/s. This is a very impressive amount of fill rate, which is even greater than that of the unreleased Voodoo5 6000 (1.33 Gigapixels/Gigatexels per second), but as you'll remember from our GeForce2 GTS review, the biggest problem for the chip isn't fill rate, but memory bandwidth.
Unlike the GeForce2 GTS, which could be outfitted with either 32MB or 64MB of DDR SGRAM/SDRAM, the GeForce2 Ultra will only be available as a 64MB card. While the chip supports up to 128MB of memory, it is unlikely that we will see a 128MB configuration this year; if need be, there is always the possibility that we will see boards with more memory as time goes on and as memory prices (hopefully) drop.
NVIDIA attempted to lessen the chip's memory bandwidth bottleneck by using faster memory and pumping up the memory clock from 166MHz DDR (effectively 333MHz) to 230MHz DDR, yielding an effective 460MHz memory clock. This is a hefty increase over the original GeForce2 GTS, and the 39% increase in actual memory clock speed results in an incredible 7.36GB/s of peak available memory bandwidth. The only card that could possibly offer more memory bandwidth will be the Voodoo5 6000, which should have twice the available memory bandwidth of the 5500 (5.3GB/s). However, since the 6000 will be a quad chip solution, that massive amount of memory bandwidth will be cut into by the texture duplication that is necessary for all four chips.
Because of the increase in memory bandwidth, the biggest advantage the GeForce2 Ultra will have over the GeForce2 GTS is at higher resolutions, in 32-bit color modes especially. This is a very brute force method of achieving higher frame rates (unlike ATI's HyperZ technology, which has more finesse), but it does get the job done. The big question is, at what cost?
The Cost
With very fast memory, high yield chips, and a minimum of 64MB of SDRAM on the cards, how expensive do you think the new GeForce2 Ultra will be? It's definitely not going to be at the $400 mark the 64MB GeForce2 GTS cards began selling at, nope, you're looking at around $500 for a GeForce2 Ultra.
We whined and moaned when we realized how expensive 3dfx's forthcoming Voodoo5 6000 would be (approximately $600), and we're going to do the exact same for NVIDIA's GeForce2 Ultra.
At $500, it's going to be very difficult to justify purchasing the GeForce2 Ultra; while it will obviously be the fastest thing available (as you will soon see by the benchmarks), the cost of that performance is, for most users, entirely too much. With a fairly well equipped PC falling in the $1500 - $2000 range, spending 1/3 or 1/4 of your total computer cost on a video card will be a stretch for most wallets.
Especially with new products from 3dfx, ATI and Matrox on the way, at least one of which will be released in the very near future, $500 spent now (or when the GeForce2 Ultra is actually available in 30 – 45 days) may earn you a self-inflicted kick in the pants later on if any of the aforementioned companies can execute properly and deliver a superior product for much less.The Memory
The memory is obviously what makes the GeForce2 Ultra what it is. The reference board we received made use of 4ns ESMT SDRAM (M13L641664 4T), which is rated at 250MHz DDR (500MHz). This should bring up a red flag since the Ultra is rated at a 460MHz memory clock, which should be able to be attained using 4.5ns memory.
According to NVIDIA, the reason for the lower memory rating on the card itself is because, by decreasing the memory clock to 460MHz, they could get the best overall balance of performance and yield on their boards. This also means that the memory overclocking potential for these cards should be quite good, with a 500MHz clock not too far fetched of an idea.
NVIDIA quite possibly refrained from positioning the Ultra as having a 500MHz memory clock because of yields on the 4ns DDR SDRAM, since in our tests it would not go above 505MHz while it is rated for 500MHz operation. Since 4ns DDR SDRAM hasn't been in production for that long, it can be expected that the yields on the chips is not as great as some of the "slower" chips. In the future this may change, but for now it makes sense for NVIDIA to sacrifice some memory performance for higher overall yields on cards.
Hot Memory
The reference board we received looked very similar to the reference GeForce2 GTS design with a few very notable exceptions.
The most noticeable difference is that the GeForce2 Ultra reference design makes use of heatsinks on its memory chips. While we have seen this adopted by a handful of manufacturers in the past on their GeForce2 GTS designs, such as Absolute Multimedia and Hercules (Guillemot), we discovered that the heatsinks used on the Ultra's memory actually made a difference.
The 460MHz (230MHz DDR) memory on the GeForce2 Ultra board we tested ran hot enough to make the heatsinks placed upon them more than just warm to the touch. While the heatsink placed on the GeForce2 Ultra chip itself wasn't very hot at all, the memory heatsinks were the exact opposite. During our tests, the memory reached temperatures as high as 109F (42.8C); this was measured by placing a thermistor on the opposite side of the PCB, directly behind a memory chip. We compared this to the operating temperature of memory on a 64MB GeForce2 GTS, which turned out to be 102.8F (39.3C). The small difference in temperature can be accounted for by the heatsinks on the memory actually doing their job. So what happens when we take off the heatsinks?
Without the heatsinks, the back of the memory reached 112.4F (44.7C) which isn't much warmer than with the heatsinks, so are they necessary? After approximately 20 minutes of running a Quake III Arena loop with only one heatsink off (there are two, one on each set of 4 SDRAM devices), there were quite a bit of artifacts on the screen; eventually the demo loop crashed.
So it seems as if, at least on our board, the heatsinks were necessary for stable operation at such a high frequency.
Digital Flat Panel Support
The next difference we noticed between the GeForce2 Ultra and the GTS reference designs was that the former features an external TMDS transmitter manufactured by Silicon Image.
If you recall, one of the features of the GeForce2 GTS offered over its predecessor was it had an integrated TMDS transmitter that allowed for outputting directly to DVI flat panels at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024. Unfortunately, according to some users that have written us, the GeForce2 GTS is unable of powering certain DVI flat panels, including those made by Viewsonic.
According to NVIDIA, the external TMDS transmitter is used for supporting resolutions of 1600 x 1200 and above; however, it may also correct some of the compatibility problems DVI flat panel users have been experiencing. We haven't been able to confirm this yet, but it is quite possible.
Faster T&L Means...?
With the higher clock speed comes a higher performing T&L engine, this time around it weighs in at 31 million triangles per second. While NVIDIA has definitely been pushing the T&L bandwagon for quite some time, we have truly yet to see a game that takes advantage of T&L to the point where it looks or performs noticeably worse without hardware T&L support.
An example of one such game is Shiny's Sacrifice which is due out later this year.
We were lucky enough to get a pre-release copy of it and managed to take some screenshots with T&L enabled and without it:
T&L Off
T&L On
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As you can probably tell, there is virtually no difference between the above two screenshots, the game looks just as good with T&L off as it does with T&L on. The performance is pretty similar although on slower machines having T&L on does definitely help out the frame rate. It seems like T&L implementations in games is still not as dramatic as NVIDIA & ATI would like it to be, not yet at least.
We managed to pay a visit to Epic not too long ago and take a look at what they're working on for their upcoming followup to UnrealTournament and let's just say that with the number of polygons they are planning to use in the characters, T&L will definitely be helpful.
For now, it's still not a necessity.
NVIDIA's Testing "Suggestion"
ATI gave NVIDIA a nice surprise with the performance of their Radeon in comparison to their flagship GeForce2 GTS product. In an attempt to "level the playing field", NVIDIA suggested that if we were to test using MDK2, we should be aware of the fact that the GeForce2 and Radeon use different default texture color depths. They further suggested that if we wanted to produce an "apples to apples" comparison, then we should run the GeForce2 GTS in 16-bit color mode. This obviously would create a problem for the ATI Radeon whose 16-bit performance is not nearly as good as NVIDIA's, but what it doesn't do is make for a true "apples to apples" comparison.
The reason NVIDIA made this suggestion is because there is an option in ATI's drivers (and there always has been) to convert 32-bit textures to 16-bit. But by placing the GeForce2 GTS and the GeForce2 Ultra in 16-bit color mode you immediately place the Radeon at a severe disadvantage because of its poor 16-bit color performance. You buy a card like a Radeon or a GeForce2 GTS and definitely a GeForce2 Ultra in order to run in 32-bit color, and benchmarking solely in 16-bit color doesn't make much sense at all.
The proper way to level the playing field, disable ATI's texture conversion
While NVIDIA's suggestions are one method of approaching benchmarking, we thought of a better idea: simply disable ATI's "convert 32-bit textures to 16-bit" option, which is what we've always done when benchmarking ATI cards, and the playing field is now leveled. This is what we did for our comparison; while we didn't use MDK2, this applies for all benchmarks and we are disappointed that NVIDIA would suggest such a thing in order to produce an "apples to apples" comparison.
The Test
For the testing, we used the same systems as were used for the GeForce 2 GTS review, with updated drivers. In the case of the Radeon, we tested with the shipping drivers with V-sync disabled as well as "Convert 32-bit textures to 16-bit" turned off. We only tested on one platform because we are comparing the performance of the drivers not the video cards themselves.
We left out the 800 x 600 scores since they didn't really show anything with these cards other than a small drop in performance when compared to 640 x 480 frame rates.
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Radeon 64MB DDR
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Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB
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As we discovered in our Detonator3 investigation, the new drivers decrease performance at lower resolutions where memory bandwidth limitations don't kick in quite yet. Because of this, the ATI Radeon jumps to the very top of the chart with the rest of the NVIDIA cards trailing behind followed by the 3dfx Voodoo5 5500.
The 64MB GeForce2 Ultra actually comes out slightly behind the 32MB GeForce2 GTS because the latter features DDR SGRAM while all 64MB cards use DDR SDRAM. The differences between SGRAM and SDRAM vanish at the higher resolutions however.
At 1024 x 768 the GeForce2 Ultra immediately begins to take over, boasting frame rates above 100fps in both 16-bit and 32-bit color. Because of its 7.3GB/s of memory bandwidth, the Ultra laughs at what we once considered to be a memory bandwidth limited setting.
You definitely get what you're paying for with the GeForce2 Ultra, at 1280 x 1024 x 32 the card's 81.8 fps is definitely playable and almost as fast as the GeForce2 GTS is in 16-bit color.
Nothing comes close to being able to touch the Ultra at 1600 x 1200 x 32, the card is just barely capable of hitting 60 fps at that resolution which is definitely playable. While some may not be interested in running at that high of a resolution, it does make running at 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 (32-bit) with 2X FSAA enabled, very playable.
With the slower Pentium III 550E, we see that the Radeon no longer holds its own at the top of the chart. The GeForce2 GTS once again comes out on top of the Ultra because of its slightly faster DDR SGRAM.
Once again, the GeForce2 Ultra picks up the pace and finds itself at the top of the performance charts. Because of the slower CPU, the performance difference between the GeForce2 Ultra and the regular GeForce2 GTS isn't too great as the CPU begins to become a limitation.
At 1280 x 1024 the GeForce2 Ultra redefines playable as 80 fps because that's what it's able to deliver. A full 41% faster than the GeForce2 GTS but also a full 50% more expensive.
Even on slower 100MHz FSB CPUs 1600 x 1200 is still very playable. Your friend down the street with a 1GHz Thunderbird and a GeForce2 GTS can't even reach your frame rate with the Ultra.
Once again, UnrealTournament proves to appreciate no card other than the Voodoo5. The Radeon seems to love the 1GHz Thunderbird and jumps up right behind the Voodoo5 and even surpasses it in 32-bit color. The GeForce2 Ultra is clearly behind the Radeon. We managed to talk to Epic about this and according to them, NVIDIA's drivers don't handle textures as well as ATI's and 3dfx's, and since UT is a very texture intensive game this could explain why all the NVIDIA cards are behind by such a large amount.
The standings remain the same as the resolution goes up.
At 1600 x 1200 the Ultra finally comes through with a very small advantage because of its incredible memory bandwidth and fill rate.
The scores are much more bunched together with the Pentium III 550E because of UT's heavy CPU dependency.
The Radeon falls a few places in the charts but remains within a few fps of the top performers as the benchmark becomes CPU limited.
This time memory size (64MB) coupled with fill rate potential comes in handy as two 64MB NVIDIA cards tie for first place with a very small margin over the 32MB GeForce2 GTS.
The Voodoo5 5500 gives up its leading position as it heads towards the bottom of the graph.
Overclocked Performance
As we mentioned earlier on in the review, the GeForce2 Ultra would be the perfect overclocker since it does have 4ns (250MHz) DDR SDRAM. Needless to say that we had no problem getting the Ultra up to 285MHz core and a 500MHz memory clock, and we benchmarked it using Quake III Arena (UT isn't responsive to overclocking because it isn't fill rate/memory bandwidth limited). So how fast did that make the already blazingly fast card?
The below scores were taken on a 1GHz Thunderbird to minimize CPU bottlenecks.
Even at 640 x 480, the overclocked GeForce2 Ultra takes an early lead over the competition, including a hefty lead over the non-overclocked Ultra.
With a 500MHz effective memory clock, it isn't surprising that the overclocked Ultra can pull over 125 fps at 1024 x 768 x 32.
The Ultra gives us a nice 10 fps boost when overclocked at 1280 x 1024, almost putting it at 100 fps at this high of a resolution in 32-bit color.
The overclocked Ultra is the first to break the 60 fps barrier at 1600 x 1200 x 32, very impressive but very expensive.
FSAA Image Quality & Performance
The image quality of the Ultra's FSAA is identical to that of the GeForce2 GTS, visit our FSAA comparison for an image quality/FSAA comparison.
The GeForce2 Ultra makes NVIDIA's 2x2 FSAA plausible at 640 x 480 x 32 and 800 x 600 x 32 without dropping too far below 60 fps, and in the case of 640 x 480 x 32 you're still running at above 80 fps.
With 2x2 FSAA
enabled, the GeForce2 Ultra is just barely slower than the Radeon with no FSAA
With the GeForce2 Ultra's incredible fill rate and memory bandwidth power combined with its 64MB of DDR SDRAM, it is truly the fastest FSAA solution on the market. Is it worth the money though? We don't think so.
Final Words
It's amazing how things can completely turn around for a company with a single product release. To those of you that have any doubt in your mind, as sad as it is to say, NVIDIA's NV20 will not be here until Spring 2001. Instead, we are to live with the $500 GeForce2 Ultra and NVIDIA is going to hope that neither 3dfx nor ATI and not even Matrox are able to execute properly this fall, otherwise NVIDIA will most definitely be dethroned as the 3D graphics performance king.
This is the opportunity for the competitors that haven't been able to compete thus far to step forward and push for the release of their products as soon as possible. The GeForce2 Ultra will be out in 30 - 45 days, and the competition already knows what to expect from NVIDIA for the next 6 months, if they can beat that, then they'll have the upper hand, for now at least.
NVIDIA's biggest fear should be ATI at this point. ATI's Radeon is already dangerously close in performance to the GeForce2 GTS. And provided that ATI can produce a Radeon MAXX in time, it will definitely give the GeForce2 Ultra a run for its money and speaking of which, it most definitely won't debut at $500.
ATI's Radeon is currently available and is priced very competitively with the GeForce2 GTS (32MB). Our biggest fear has been driver support and quality, and in order to give a more accurate recommendation we are going to be stress testing the ATI Radeon drivers and will report on their successes and/or failures in an upcoming article a week from now.
At a $500 price point the GeForce2 Ultra most likely won't see the same popularity that even the $300 GeForce2 GTS and the $400 64MB GeForce2 GTS cards saw since their release. The price of the Ultra is heavily dependent on the availability of its ultra-fast 4ns DDR SDRAM, and there is no sign of that cost dropping anytime soon. It will be interesting to see how much Ultra cards drop in price over the next couple of months if any at all.
Performance-wise, you can't argue that the GeForce2 Ultra is the fastest thing to hit the streets thus far. We're not arguing with the performance of the card at all, but for most users, we can't recommend spending $500 on a card that will most likely be outperformed by a sub $300 card in a couple of months. If you want the fastest thing now and don't care about the cost, there's no question that the Ultra is for you.
While the delay of the NV20 isn't great enough to completely throw NVIDIA off course, they need to make sure that when NV20 does come along that it is powerful enough and attractive enough to shadow the competition once again. If not, then NVIDIA might be facing much bigger problems. For now, this is 3dfx's, ATI's and Matrox's chance to step forward and restore some competition to this industry.
To the big three out there, this is your chance, don't screw it up.


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'Big Data': not necessarily a tsunami
Insights from the UAI Summit 2012
"Big data is not so much a tsunami, but a big river of information, and every year it gets bigger, it never stops," said Dale Skeen, co-founder and chief technology officer at Vitria, at the Utility Analytics Institute Summit 2012.
Indeed. Data and analytics are not just one-time events and, as we're seeing at the summit in Orlando, Florida, much like a river, they will continue to transform and shape the utility industry. Man, I love good analogies. Let's discuss some key issues we covered on the first day of the summit, along with a few other good analogies.
Those of you who know me know that I'm a people person. And not necessarily that I just like to chitchat, but rather that I believe people are a critical part of any smart grid or analytics initiative. In our research at the Utility Analytics Institute, for example, we've determined that about 24 percent of utility companies list the lack of necessary skills and staff as a key challenge in their grid analytics initiatives. As one utility noted in our Annual Grid Analytics Report, "there are not a lot of resources with the broad experience to design and deploy the advanced grid management our company is striving for."
And it isn't just about those people who design and deploy analytics initiatives. Analytics users count, too. At the summit I got some support on this notion, not only in various anecdotal discussions, but from work presented by OSIsoft and Microsoft. Some recent research conducted by the two companies showed that training time around analytics tools is one of the biggest analytics challenges for about 45 percent of utility companies. A big question is how can utilities companies create self-service intelligence?
Places for many types of intelligence
We hear a lot of "real-time this" or "predictive that" with the analytics discussion, but real-time and predictive analytics are still a little ways off, and that's okay. As Rob Massoudi, senior vice president of business development and strategic partnerships with Space-Time Insight said, "The goalpost is predictive analytics, and we're working towards that."
In some cases, however, you may not want real-time or predictive analytics all the time. I enjoyed a great example from one of the presentations that compared operational intelligence, which focuses on analytics velocity, with the business intelligence that is more retrospective. They are complementary technologies, and one can't really replace the other. Let's say you are crossing a busy street, would you want to know how things were an hour ago or a minute ago? Or would you want some operational intelligence about that car coming right around the corner as you get ready to step out into the crosswalk? At the same time, if you were designing that crosswalk, it wouldn't necessarily be helpful to know just what is happening along the road right now. You'd want more business intelligence, and be able to understand what has happened over time, with traffic patterns and such, to be able to design a crosswalk that best addresses the needs of the pedestrian with an eye towards good traffic flow.
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There are business drivers pushing utilities to invest in analytics, such as performance improvement, cost savings and improved customer service. At the same time, however, new-found data and analytics capabilities are pushing utilities to find new uses for those resources. As Peggy Clippert, manager of customer research with We Energies, cleverly put it, "I have this great new hammer, and I'm going around the company to find all the nails I can hit with it."
That's it for now from Orlando. Kate Rowland, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Utility magazine, will be providing another update tomorrow as we wrap up the Utility Analytics Institute Summit 2012. Thanks for reading and I'll be sure to tell Mickey Mouse you said hi.
H. Christine Richards
Senior analyst
Utility Analytics Institute
Being able to analyze big
Being able to analyze big data to extract value from it is key. We are learning how important the role of a data scientist is in predictive analytics and business intelligence, for solving big data related problems. HPCC Systems has recently released its open source distributed Machine Learning (ML) library and the underlying linear algebra Matrix arithmetic libraries, to assist data scientists and developers in these type of tasks. These algorithms leverage the distributed nature of the HPCC Systems architecture, providing for extreme scalability in large feature sets, particularly with hundreds or thousands of features and millions of entries. The real advantage is that, now, data scientists will be able to do machine learning with full parallelization, on Big Data. By leveraging the power of ECL on the HPCC Systems platform, the need for employing many Java developers on a Big Data problem is avoided, and this reduces the overall cost and delivery time of the projects. Learn more at hpccsystems.com
Better Answers and Questions
Thanks for the post. One of the areas where analytics does not get much credit, is it helps organization ask better questions. Analysis does provide answers but it also identifies gaps and inconsistencies. The gaps help us ask better questions and develop new hypothesis, which ultimately identify underlying insights and information.


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The Grotti Carbonizzare is a grand tourer making its first appearance in Grand Theft Auto V.
The design of this vehicle is based significantly on the Aston Martin V12 Zagato and Nissan GT-R. The vehicle's front greenhouse form and headlamps are inspired by the GT-R. The front quarter-panel, rear of the greenhouse and the entire rear of the car appears very similar to that of the original race-spec V12 Zagato. However this car is manufactured by Grotti (parody of Ferrari), this may suggest that the car is modeled on Ferrari 458 Italia.
The front end of this car is created with a range of lines and curves. The front bumper features a large central intake, spanning half the car's width. Either side of this intake, there is a smaller intake with an 8 LED, daytime running lamp strip adjacent to the top edge. The car features quadrilateral shaped headlamp units which have a strip of 10 LED's along the lower part of the inner edge. The outer area features three circular lamps, the highest one being the amber turning indicator lamp. The bonnet/ hood features impressed areas whose edges are parallel to the inner edges of the headlamp units. The front quarter panels are dominated by the presence of a large air intake with a chrome strip near its top edge.
The main body of the car has a high prevalence of curves. The A pillars of the car are covered with a black polymer. There are black wing mirrors mounted just below the A pillars at the front of the door. The greenhouse features a a very curvy lower window line. It also features a very smooth and elegant C pillar area. The rear quarter area bulges outwards and is wider than the main body area, and much wider than the rear of the greenhouse. The rear quarter area has an upper edge that follows the shape of the rear wheel arch. The car features a tan coloured interior.
The rear is both smooth and sharp in areas. At the top of the car's rear face, on the corners are the tail-lamp units, being an almost semi-circle cutout. Inset in the cutout are two circular lamps. The rear bumper of the car features very curved side edges, making more of the rear tyres visible. The lower area of the rear bumper is dominated by the presence of a distinct aerodynamic formation. The formation is split into two levels, the upper level features circular exhaust tips, one either side of the license plate. The bottom level features a large seven-blade CFRP diffuser.
This car features a front-mounted engine.
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- In the screenshot where this car first appeared, it had no windscreen wipers.
- Also, in the same screenshot, it had six spoke wheels, but interestingly, the outer part of the wheel hub is visible, meaning that the wheel has been inset too far into the body, or has not been correctly modeled to fit this car.
- During the "Trevor" trailer, a roadster version of the car can be seen in the background, with the roof retracted.
- Carbonizzare is Italian for "carbonize".


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Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers
Ebola virus. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers are acute viral diseases that lead often to severe illness and death in humans and other primates. The infections typically affect multiple organs in the body and are often accompanied by hemorrhage (bleeding). Once the virus has been transmitted from an animal host to a human, it can then spread through person-to-person contact.
Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers are acute diseases that often lead to severe illness and death in both humans and nonhuman primates. The diseases typically affect multiple organs in the body and are often accompanied by hemorrhage (bleeding). The illnesses are caused by filoviruses, the only two known members of the virus family Filoviridae.
Image: Transmission electron micrograph depicting a number of filamentous Marburg virions. Source: CDC; Credit: E. Palmer and R. Regnery.
Marburg hemorrhagic fever was first recognized in 1967, when laboratory workers in Germany and Yugoslavia developed a hemorrhagic illness after handling tissue from green monkeys. The outbreak resulted in 31 infections and 7 deaths. Researchers later identified the cause as a never-before-seen filovirus, termed "Marburg" after one of the outbreak locations.
Eleven years later, Ebola virus was identified when two outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever occurred in northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and southern Sudan. The causes of the outbreaks were identified as two different species of another novel filovirus, called "Ebola" after a river in northern Zaire. Both species proved to be highly lethal, as 90 percent of the Zairian cases and 50 percent of the Sudanese cases resulted in death.
There are five species of Ebola virus, named for the locations in which they were first recognized. Four of the five subtypes have caused disease in humans: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan/Gulu, Ebola-Ivory Coast, and Ebola-Bundibugyo. The fifth, Ebola-Reston, has caused disease in nonhuman primates (gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys) but not in humans.
Filoviruses are believed to be zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted to humans by animals. The natural reservoirs, or animal hosts, of Ebola and Marburg viruses are not known. The viruses can replicate, or reproduce, in certain types of bats native to the areas where the viruses are found, so some researchers think that these bats could be the natural reservoirs.
Once the virus has been transmitted to a human, it can then be spread through person-to-person contact. People can be exposed to Ebola and Marburg viruses from direct contact with the blood or secretions of an infected person.
Nosocomial transmission, or the spread of disease within a healthcare setting, also occurs, making the use of protective clothing and the disposal of needles and syringes crucial to preventing the spread of infection.
Symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever usually appear 2 to 21 days after exposure to the virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. Other symptoms, including rash, red eyes, hiccups, and internal and external bleeding, may also occur.
Symptoms of Marburg hemorrhagic fever appear 5 to 10 days after exposure to the virus. Symptoms appear suddenly and include fever, chills, headache, and muscle aches. Infected people may also develop a red rash usually on the chest, back, or stomach. Nausea, vomiting, chest pain, a sore throat, abdominal pain, and diarrhea may appear. Symptoms become increasingly severe and may include severe weight loss, delirium, shock, liver failure, and external bleeding.
Diagnosis of Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers can be difficult because early symptoms are often similar to other infectious diseases, such as malaria and typhoid fever.
If they suspect Ebola or Marburg infection, healthcare providers will isolate infected patients. Laboratory tests can confirm infection within a few days of the onset of symptoms.
Treatment and Prevention
There are no specific drugs to treat Ebola or Marburg hemorrhagic fevers. If hospitalized, ill people can be given supportive care such as intravenous fluids.
The molecular events that affect disease transmission and human response to Ebola and Marburg viruses are poorly understood. Researchers in NIAID's Division of Intramural Research and at the Institute's Vaccine Research Center as well as NIAID-supported scientists at external institutions are studying all aspects of Ebola and Marburg viruses and how they cause disease.
Investigators are seeking better ways to diagnose and treat Ebola and Marburg fevers. For example, NIAID scientists, in collaboration with researchers at the NIAID-supported New England Regional Center of Excellence, are investigating molecules called cathepsin inhibitors. Cathepsins play an essential role in allowing the Ebola virus to enter and infect cells. Cathepsin inhibitors could be developed to keep the virus from entering cells and causing disease.
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Normandy, MO (KSDK) - Was it an unfortunate accident or an excessive use of force?
There are new developments into whether a Normandy High School security guard caused injuries to a student that were so severe; the student may now need a heart transplant.
On October 21, 2011, just after 8 a.m., Damontae Woods' grandmother dropped him off at Normandy High School. Forty minutes later, an ambulance rushed the 18-year-old junior to Children's Hospital for open heart surgery.
A security guard allegedly caused injuries so severe it ruptured his heart. He spent several weeks in ICU, had multiple surgeries, and now his grandmother says, part of his heart has stopped working.
"They want to put him on the list for a heart transplant," explained Luella Woods.
Last week, Damontae and his family met with doctors at St. Louis Children's Hospital to hear why a heart transplant might be his best option.
Damontae said part of his heart has stopped functioning.
"I have to get a new one before it's completely gone and not working no more," he said.
The question the FBI and police are trying to determine is what really happened during those 40 minutes before Damontae was rushed to the hospital?
Damontae admits he ran from security saying he didn't want to get in trouble for being late to class.
For months the I-Team has reached out to the security guard trying to hear his side of the story, but he never responded. Recently, his attorney called the I-Team's Leisa Zigman.
Paul D'Agrosa explained, "My client grabbed him to stop him, to detain him so he could talk to him. That was his job. They both lost their balance and my client fell on top of Damontae. If there was an injury, I believe it happened during the tumble and fall.
D'Agrosa says it was an unfortunate accident. And, in his opinion, it wasn't criminal or a violation of Damontae's civil rights.
"Are you supposed to not chase and just let the kid run off? What if he had a weapon? What if he had drugs? It's his job and the job of all security to investigate," said D'Agrosa.
Damontae has a different version of events saying the guard didn't stumble on top of him.
"He was standing over me and all of a sudden he came down with full force and kneed me on my chest," said Damontae.
Sources close to the case say medical records indicate Damontae did not have a pre-existing heart condition. So, the key question may become whether a stumble could have caused injuries so severe it ruptured Damontae's heart.
"A larger man falling on top of a smaller skinny kid and creating an injury to his chest? My answer is of course that is plausible. It's explainable because of transfer weight because of momentum of one body on top of another," said D'Agrosa.
Damontae is 5'3" tall. He says he is being tutored at home because just taking a few steps leaves him out of breath. He is also retaining fluids and appears bloated and swollen throughout his body. These are all symptom often associated with congestive heart failure.
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Authorities say an NFL player has been arrested at a New York airport after police found a handgun in his luggage.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Da`Quan Bowers was arraigned Monday on charges of criminal possession of a weapon and posted $10,000 bond.
Bowers was arrested at LaGuardia Airport as he was about to board a US Airways flight to Raleigh, N.C. Authorities say the .40-caliber weapon was found during a search of his carry-on bag.
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June 29th, 2012
"Look at these...beautiful, purple. We just harvested these too." Sam Kass brushes away the leaves to reveal Japanese eggplants.
It's a beautiful summer day in Washington, DC. Instead of toiling in a government office building, Kass is digging in a backyard garden. And it's not just any garden; he's in the White House kitchen garden. Kass is a White House assistant chef, working his dream job.
"I get to come down every night and I'll harvest something pretty much for dinner. This little thing down here, you see it?" he asks, holding a tiny green pepper. The seeds came from Thomas Jefferson's garden at Monticello. "It will turn red, but you can eat it green or red. That thing packs a punch," Kass says smiling broadly. "Don't let the size fool you."
The 32-year old Chicago native has known the First Family for many years; his father was Malia's 5th grade teacher. But he's more than a chef. He travels with the Obamas on vacation and is ever-present when the First Lady talks about healthy eating.
In addition to having the title of Assistant Chef, he's also a White House Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives - a job that has put him in the spotlight as a spokesperson and earned him a spot on People Magazines 100 Most Beautiful People and Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011.
"This is now our 4th season," Kass says. "We have a lot of corn. All of the summer stuff. The cucumbers are going bananas. We have beans and squash and lots of tomatoes. We have lots of potatoes, sweet potatoes. The strawberries are coming. The blueberries are looking good. So we're doing great."
The garden has been a signature initiative of the First Lady who has used it to start a conversation on healthy eating for children. It's a learning garden and school groups are frequently invited to visit the garden to touch, feel and taste the vegetables.
"When kids are empowered as actors in this and they get to be a part of the process of planting a seed and watching it grow and preparing it to eat, their minds just open up because they take real ownership in the process," Kass said.
Kass points to the statistics. "I'm incredibly worried and so is the First Lady right now. One in three of the youngest generation will have diabetes in their lifetime unless we turn this around."
He acknowledges it can be a battle for parents to convince their children to give up the chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese and swap them for healthy vegetables. But there are steps parents can take, including sitting down for family dinners.
"The First Family, anytime the President is in town, they will eat dinner as a family. It's a great way for families to sit down and be a family. It's critical to getting kids to eat their vegetables too."
Kass also recommends families try to plan ahead. Take half an hour on Sundays and map out meals for the week so you're not trying to figure it out on the way home on the fly, he says. And he's all about balance - having mostly healthy foods, but allowing for the occasional splurge.
Kass won't disclose the President or First Lady's favorite foods. "That's top secret information," he says brushing off the question with a laugh. But, he adds, the First Family practices what they preach. "We cook to MyPlate and then we go from there."
With two children living in the White House, Kass says they do build in flexibility having dessert at the end of the week and the occasional pizza and pastas. "We balance healthy meals, but we have fun with food too. We make sure we throw them a bone every now and then and serve them fun stuff."
The White House Let's Move team is hosting a "State" dinner for kids in August. Children aged eight to 14 were invited to submit healthy recipes. Winning entrants from each state will be chosen to attend the dinner with Mrs. Obama.
Kass was one of the official judges, sampling more than 100 different dishes. "Kids were coming up with recipes with the help of their parents. They were wonderful. You could just see the ingenuity. Some really delicious stuff."
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Master of Coin is a title in Game of Thrones. The holder is a member of the small council of the monarchy of the Seven Kingdoms. In the first season this position is held by Lord Petyr Baelish under King Robert Baratheon. Baelish remains in the role when King Joffrey Baratheon inherits the throne.
When Tywin Lannister, now Hand of the King, sends Lord Baelish to the Eyrie with a marriage proposal for Lysa Arryn, he chooses his own son, Tyrion as the new Master of Coin.
Known Masters of Coin
- Lord Petyr Baelish, called "Littlefinger", Master of Coin under Robert I and Joffrey I. Left the position to offer a marriage alliance to Lady Lysa Arryn of the Vale.
- Tyrion Lannister, called "the Imp" and "Halfman", replacing Lord Baelish.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Petyr Baelish was appointed Master of Coin by Hand of the King Jon Arryn, about seven years before the beginning of the narrative. Originally, Jon's wife Lysa had convinced her husband to make Baelish the chief customs officer at the port of Gulltown in the Vale. Baelish excelled at the position, increasing revenue tenfold, so ten years ago Lord Arryn brought him to King's Landing and gave him a minor position in the royal customs office. Baelish increased gross revenues tenfold, and demonstrated such great skill that Arryn rapidly advanced him through a series of promotions, so that within three years he was named Master of Coin for the entire realm. Robert's reign lasted fifteen years in the books (expanded to seventeen in the TV series), and Littlefinger was only Master of Coin for the last seven years, but it is unstated which person (or persons) may have held the office in the early years of King Robert's reign. Thus Baelish is not a holdover from the previous Targaryen Small Council, in contrast to Pycelle and Varys, who formerly served under the Mad King.
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