Reportage de la TSR (television suisse romande) sur les imprimantes 3D.

Liste des premiers billets:

• GPU Computing en Python PyCUDA et PyOpenCL
• [GeeXLab] Preview d’un Space Shooter
• YI QING: Simulation de l’Oracle Chinois avec GeeXLab
• Si la Terre avait une Ceinture d’Asteroides comme Saturne
• Le Moteur de Physique Bullet Utilisé dans 2012
• H3D Haptics et X3D et Python
• Un Petit Overclocking de la Radeon HD 5970
• Post-Processing: Onde de Choc 2D en GLSL

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Ce site de news se trouve ici: Geeks3D.com.

Pourquoi ce site? Tout simplement parceque c’est une excellente façon pour moi de faire de la veille technologique dans le domaine de la 3D. J’ai depuis longtemps fait des news: d’abord sur le site oZone3D.Net puis dans le blog que vous êtes en train de lire. Mais cela commençait
à devenir un peu confu: news postées sur oZone3D.Net, news postées sur l’Infamous Lab, en fait je ne savais plus trop où poster les news. La solution était donc toute simple: créer un nouveau site rien que pour les news!

En un mot: Geeks3D.com pour les news 3D et le JeGX’s Infamous Lab pour mes demos, tests et autres délires plus perso.

Donc voilà, si vous avez des actus relatives au monde de la 3d que vous voulez faire connaitre, envoyez-les moi (jegx at ozone3d.net), je me ferai un plaisir de les publier sur Geeks3D.
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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.
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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.”

- page 4:
“Intel’s threaded programming model known as Ct.”
“several people have said that CUDA needs to run on the CPU as well – we can do that and we’re adding it”

- page 5:
“Every CUDA program will run everywhere.”
“The professional OpenGL applications typically can run on GeForce, but just really slowly. This is because OpenGL has good software emulation in the driver for any hardware feature that doesn’t exist – although some applications can detect that and refuse to run.”

- page 6:
“Without being too negative, we see Larrabee as the GPU that a CPU designer would build, not the GPU you’d build if you were a GPU designer.”
“AMD has been declining because it hasn’t built a competitive graphics architecture for almost two years now—ever since the AMD/ATI merger.”
“The third one is the next generation GPU technology—we’re going to invest one billion dollars in here this year and they need to invest on the same level to keep up with us.”

- page 7:
“I think rasterisation will definitely be around in ten years time.”
“I think that the APIs will evolve to include more ray traced components. There’s plenty more for us to do [in graphics] and we’re only scratching the surface at the moment”

- page 8:
“What Intel does well is not just building good CPUs, it’s the fact that they’re a vertically integrated manufacturing company – Intel’s in the business of turning sand into money.”
“but really if you took away the process advantage that Intel had, they would be behind AMD pretty consistently in terms of architecture. They win because they build an efficient and faster process.”
“I think that if we were to compete with Intel, we would need to become a vertically integrated company and have our own fabs.”
“GPUs are much bigger than CPUs, so in the same capacity that they could build 100 million CPUs, they could build 20 million GPUs.”

Ce nouveau benchmark est disponible en 4 versions: une gratuite (trial) et 3 payantes:
- Basic: $6.95
- Advanced: $19.95
- Professional: $495

La version totalement gratuite est téléchargeable MAIS elle est extrêmement limitée puisqu’elle n’autorise qu’un seul lancement des tests, avec les réglages standards. Je pense que l’on devrait retrouver d’ici peu la version Basic (ou Advanced) en bundle avec certaines cartes graphiques…

Voici une petite compilation de liens pour vous aider à mieux exploiter 3DMark Vantage:

- 3DMark Vantage @ Futurmark

- 3DMark Vantage Whitepaper
- 3DMark Vantage Testing Guidelines

Download:
- 3DMark Vantage @ Guru3D
- 3DMark Vantage @ MajorGeeks
- 3DMark Vantage @ Revioo

Graphics Drivers
- NVIDIA Forceware 175.12 Vista 32
- NVIDIA Forceware 175.12 Vista 64
- ATI Catalyst 3DMark Vantage Hotfix Released for Radeon 2k/3k

Misc:
- 3DMark Vantage, new torture for your gaming setup @ expreview.com
- Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Review @ Overclockers Club
- Futuremark 3DMark Vantage – The Gamers New Benchmark @ Legit Reviews
- 3DMark Vantage Overview and Performance @ FiringSquad
- Futuremark 3DMark Vantage @ AnandTech
- 3DMark Vantage quick user guide @ Guru3D
- 3DMark Vantage formal version screenshots @ hardspell
- 3DMark Vantage Presentation @ accelenation
- 3DMark Vantage est enfin là @ pcinpact

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