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NVidia Announces Project Shield Gaming Device Large-Scale Elastic NVidia announces Project Shield, a game and imagined a new way to Architecture new portable gaming device for open play,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, co- Data-as-a-Service platforms. The Project Shield device, founder and chief executive officer at Red Hat Inc. recently announced its which features a 5-inch screen and a NVidia. Project Shield features NVidia’s participation in a European Union ini- full-size ergonomic controller, lets new Tegra 4 processor, which delivers tiative to create a Large-scale Elastic users play both Android and PC titles. powerful gaming capacity from its cus- Architecture for Data-as-a-Service As an Android device, Project Shield tom 72-core GeForce GPU and quad- (LEADS) for mining and analyzing data provides access to any game on core Cortex-A15 CPU. According to the published on the entire public web. Google Play, and, as a wireless receiver announcement, the Project Shield de- The LEADS consortium is composed and controller, it can stream games vice combines the NVidia Tegra 4, of universities and research centers, and access titles on its Steam game li- high-bandwidth, ultra- as well as IT corporations with an in- brary from a PC powered by NVidia fast wireless tech- terest in data mining and analysis GeForce GTX GPUs. Project Shield nology, and HD techniques. The objective of LEADS is comes with the latest Android video and audio “to build a decentralized Data-as-a- Jelly Bean operating sys- with a full-size, con- Service (DaaS) framework that runs tem from Google. sole-grade controller. on an elastic collection of micro- “Project Shield It features an integrated clouds.” LEADS will provide a means was created by 5-inch, 1280x720 HD reti- to gather, store and query publicly NVidia engineers nal multitouch display available data, as well as process this who love to with 294dpi. data in real time.
Qt Project Releases Qt 5.0 Splunk Announces SDKs The Qt Project has announced the release of Qt 5.0, the latest Splunk Inc. released new software development kits (SDKs) version of the Qt C++ UI framework. According to the web- for Java and Python. Splunk previously released the SDK site, Qt 5 lets developers quickly create applications with in- for JavaScript for Splunk Enterprise 5, and the Splunk SDK tuitive user interfaces for multiple targets, and Qt’s modular for PHP is in public preview. C++ class library and tools let developers create applications According to the company, the SDKs for Java, JavaScript, for one platform and easily build and deploy on another plat- PHP, and Python are built on a fully documented and sup- form. According to the announcement, Qt 5 includes amaz- ported REST API, and they include documentation, code ing graphic capabilities and performance. Qt 5 uses an samples, resources, and tools to help developers build on OpenGL-based scene graph to accelerate the graphics of Qt the Splunk platform. The SDKs allow developers to inte- Quick, making it possible to create user interfaces with ani- grate Splunk data with other applications and create appli- mations, impressive graphical effects, and particle systems, cations to index, search, visualize, and analyze data. They even on mobile and embedded devices. The latest version also allow developers to build enterprise-grade applications provides enhanced developer productivity and flexibility, rapidly with standard programming languages and tools. with improved support for JavaScript and QML in Qt 5, while “We want to empower developers to build big data applica- maintaining the C++ foundation and Qt Widget support. It tions on the Splunk platform and to understand that you also provides easier cross-platform portability with the new don’t need large-scale development efforts to get big value. structure of Essentials and Add-ons modules, along with the That’s a key driver behind the development of these SDKs, consolidation of Qt Platform Abstrac- helping developers quickly get started with Splunk soft- tion. Qt 5.0 comes as a full SDK pack- ware, leveraging their existing language skills and driving age with binaries for Linux (64- and rapid time to value,” said Paul Sanford, general manager of 32-bit), Mac OS X (10.7 and 10.8), and the Splunk developer platform. You can download the Windows. The package also comes Splunk SDK for Java, the Splunk SDK for Python, and the with Qt Creator 2.6, examples, and full Splunk SDK for JavaScript immediately. To learn more, documentation. please visit http://www. splunk. com/ company .
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AMD Releases New APP SDK and CodeXL Tool Suite
AMD has released APP SDK 2.8 along APP SDK 2.8 includes new and im- Version 1.0 of CodeXL is a developer with the CodeXL unified tool suite to proved samples and documentation for tool suite that allows developers to take help developers accelerate applications OpenCL, C++ AMP, and Aparapi. APP advantage of AMD’s high-performance with AMD accelerated processing units SDK 2.8 also includes a preview version CPUs, GPUs, and APUs across a wide (APUs) and graphics processing units of AMD’s new open source C++ tem- array of computing platforms. CodeXL (GPUs). The Accelerated Parallel Pro- plate library, includes comprehen- cessing (APP) SDK 2.8 and CodeXL tool code-named sive GPU debugging, suite provide access to code samples, “Bolt.” The Bolt GPU and CPU profil- white papers, libraries, and tools for programming ing, static OpenCL quickly and efficiently creating apps. model is C++ template programming kernel analysis, and a standalone user The APP SDK is a complete develop- (similar to the C++ Standard Template interface on Windows and Linux for en- ment platform for developing applica- Library), allowing developers to code in hanced accessibility and navigation. For tions accelerated by AMD APP technol- an environment similar to the one they more information about these tools, ogy. According to the announcement, use to program multicore CPUs. visit: http://developer.amd.com/.
USB 3.0 Will Increase Data Throughput
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has an- tion to deliver twice the data through- vices; improved data encoding for more nounced a SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) put via enhanced, fully backward com- efficient data transfer and improved I/O enhancement that will add a much patible USB connectors and cables. power efficiency; and compatibility with higher data rate, increasing data This supplement to the USB 3.0 specifi- existing USB 3.0 software stacks and throughput performance to 10Gbps. cation is expected by the middle of device class protocols. Specifically, the 10Gbps SuperSpeed 2013. The 10Gbps SuperSpeed USB update USB specification will define a 10Gbps Features of the new SuperSpeed USB is targeted for a 45-day industry review SuperSpeed USB speed mode that ex- solution include: compatibility with ex- period tentatively beginning February tends the existing SuperSpeed defini- isting cables, connectors, hubs, and de- 7, 2012, and ending March 26, 2013.
Oracle Releases NoSQL AWS Tools for Windows Database 2.0 PowerShell 1.0.0 Announced Oracle announces Ora- Amazon Web Services has released AWS Tools for Win- cle NoSQL Database dows PowerShell 1.0, which lets developers and administra- 2.0 – a highly scalable, low-latency, key-value database for tors manage AWS services from the Windows PowerShell real-time big data workloads. scripting environment. According to the company, Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 has AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell comprise a set of Win- a powerful and flexible transaction model that greatly sim- dows PowerShell cmdlets that are built on top of the func- plifies the process of developing a NoSQL-based applica- tionality exposed by the AWS SDK for .NET. According to tion. The database scales horizontally with high availability the company, the AWS Tools let you script operations on and transparent load balancing. Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 your AWS resources from the Windows PowerShell com- includes tighter integration with Oracle Database and Ha- mand line. More than 550 cmdlets are available for making doop environments and is designed to fit seamlessly into an quick AWS service calls from the command line or for creat- enterprise IT stack. Oracle NoSQL Database is designed to ing scripts to automate AWS service management. The be highly available and extremely scalable, with predictable AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell support the same set levels of throughput and latency, and it requires minimal of services and regions as supported by the SDK. administrative interaction. The latest version adds efficient According to the company, AWS Tools for Windows Power- support for storage and retrieval of large objects such as Shell lets admins perform many of the same actions avail- documents and images, as well as automatic rebalancing able in the AWS SDK for .NET. Additionally, the Windows for allocating resources in response to changing production PowerShell scripting language lets you compose scripts to requirements. The database lets customers easily manage automate your AWS service management. high-velocity transactional data generated by web-based To use the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, you must applications, social media, sensors, smart meters, and com- have an AWS account, Microsoft Windows XP or later, and munications services. It is built using Oracle Berkeley DB as Windows PowerShell 2.0 or the underlying storage engine. Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 later. More information is is available for download from the Oracle Technology Net- available from: http://aws. work www.oracle. com/ technetwork/ . amazon.com/ powershell/
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