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Some users have reported that FurMark 1.4.0 has the Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.vpx. I did this morning the scan with the latest version of Kaspersky and the very latest version of their database. Kaspersky hasn’t found any threat or trojan in FurMark setup installer nor in FurMark root directory. FurMark is clean. MajorGeeks and Softpedia are very good proofs of FurMark’s cleanness.

I did some searches over the Net and I found that others users have some false alarms. I guess the problem comes from the InnoSetup (the utility used to create FurMark_Setup.exe) and depends of the version of Kaspersky’s database. So if you have Kaspersky antivirus, be sure to update it with the latest database.

I sent FurMark_Setup.exe to Kaspersky Lab and I just receive the reply from the Virus Analyst:
”I suppose it WAS a false alarm, and it has been already fixed.”
This time everything is ok!

A small post to say I have set up a new website dedicated to the Latest of the world of 3D: graphics cards, OpenGL and Direct3D programming, 3d softwares, demoscene and all other cool things I forget.

This website is here: Geeks3D.com.

Why this new website? Simply because it’s perfect way for me to keep pace with the latest in 3d.
I’m in the news for a while: first in the oZone3D.Net website, then in the Infamous Lab (actually oZone3D.Net+Infamous Lab) but now it was getting a little confused to know where posting the news. The solution was very simple: starting a new website only for the news!

In a word: Geeks3D.com for 3D news and JeGX’s Infamous Lab for my demos and tests/reviews.

By the way, if you have some cool news that match Geeks3D you want to spread, feel free to send them (jegx at ozone3d.net), I would be glad to publish them.

David Kirk, Nvidia’s Chief Scientist, interviewed by the guys at bit-tech.net.

Read the full interview HERE.

Here are some snippets of this 8-page interview:

- page1
”Kirk’s role within Nvidia sounds many times simpler than it actually is: he oversees technology progression and he is responsible for creating the next generation of graphics. He’s not just working on tomorrow’s technology, but he’s also working on what’s coming out the day after that, too.”
”I think that if you look at any kind of computational problem that has a lot of parallelism and a lot of data, the GPU is an architecture that is better suited than that. It’s possible that you could make the CPUs more GPU-like, but then you run the risk of them being less good at what they’re good at now”
”The reason for that is because GPUs and CPUs are very different. If you built a hybrid of the two, it would do both kinds of tasks poorly instead of doing both well,”

- page 2:
”Nvidia has talked about hardware support for double precision in the past—especially when Tesla launched—but there are no shipping GPUs supporting it in hardware yet”
”our next products will support double precision.”
”David talked about expanding CUDA other hardware vendors, and the fact that this is going to require them to implement support for C.”
”current ATI hardware cannot run C code, so the question is: has Nvidia talked with competitors (like ATI) about running C on their hardware?”

- page 3:
”It amazes me that people adopted Cell [the pseudo eight-core processor used in the PS3] because they needed to run things several times faster. GPUs are hundreds of times faster so really if the argument was right then, it’s really right now.”

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Je viens de découvrir GeekTube, une plateforme genre YouTube ou DailyMotion mais pour les geeks francophones on dirait. Mais le truc bizarre, c’est que toutes les vidéos que j’ai vues dessus sont hébergées par DailyMotion. Donc:

link GeekTube( myVideo )
{
	return( DailyMotion(myVideo) );
}

Le petit lien: http://www.geektube.fr

If you find your Xbox 360 a little bit too noisy, ExtremTech shows you how to replace the stock fan.

Ok cool but why Microsoft does not do this hack directly ???

GPU Caps Viewer est en train de se balader un peu partout autour de la planète web, et je viens de le découvir en Chine où il a posé ses valises le temps de faire chauffer quelques GPUs chinois…

Le lien: www.greendown.cn

Attention aux yeux, ça clignote de partout!

Voilà j’ai encore changé de thème pour ce blog. Et oui que voulez vous, avec la quantité astronomique de thèmes disponibles, je pourrais en changer tous les jours. Ceci dit, pour ceux qui sont interessés, ce thème est dispo ici: Paalam.

Juste pour info, l’image d’entête est issue d’une petite démo 3d qui sera releasée prochainement.

Just some little news about the current dev I’m working on. In the next few days I will release the new version of GPU Caps Viewer (currently in beta-test stage). This new version has a cleaner interface, an improved gpu detection, a new OpenGL demo (HDR) and a new logo… And in the same time I’m updating the fur benchmark with many new cool features such as a separate rendering thread and mostly a checkbox called Contest Mode. More on this option very soon. After the release of both softwares, I hope to get back on Demoniak3D development and demos.

So stay tuned!

And from now, a few days of complete rest…

Happy New Year 2008!