Haptics seem to be ubiquitous in handheld devices.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-phones/news/2009/10/28/Google-Officially-Announces-Android-2-0/p1
On top of this a ‘Car Home’ screen brings large, relevant finger friendly buttons for users when driving, integrated haptic feedback and text-to-speech. The camera app gets far more advanced too with users now able to set white balance, digital zoom and flash support. SMS and MMS messages [...]
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Nvidia-NASDAQ-NVDA-1066850.html
BEIJING–(Marketwire – October 28, 2009) – NVIDIA today announced that the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Tsinghua University have been recognized as CUDA Centers of Excellence for their commitment to furthering GPU Computing research and their teaching of parallel programming courses based on the CUDA™ architecture.
They join [...]
I just saw this effort in using GPU computing for R. Interesting:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/
http://www.sensable.com/pr_20091919MedCAP/news-press-detail.htm
http://healthcare.tmcnet.com/topics/healthcare/articles/67009-sensables-haptic-devices-help-hospitals-test-anesthetists-skills.htm
This simulator seems very much like the epidural simulator that I worked on a few years ago at Boston.
http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/find-articles.pl?&ME09ART47&ME&20091001&&SME&#article
This is using multi-core processors with OpenMP for accelerating CAD/CAM. What about manycore computing?
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2585504/
GE will work on realtime applications with GPU computing. I noticed that a set of companies are trying to leverage GPU computing power. Agreements were signed between these companies and nVidia. But I feel there are still a lot of technical barriers. We’ll see how they go.
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MSC.Software and NVIDIA to Revolutionize Simulation-Driven Product Design
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – MSC.Software, a leading global provider of simulation software applications and related services, today announced an alliance with NVIDIA to leverage the CUDA(TM) architecture of its Tesla(TM) graphics processing units (GPUs) in a way that will transform simulation-driven product design and development, [...]
The CGAL Open Source Project is pleased to announce the Release 3.5
of CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library.
Besides improvements to existing packages, this release offers the
following new algorithms and data structures.
o 3D Periodic Triangulations (new package)
This package allows to build and handle triangulations of point sets in
the three dimensional flat torus. Triangulations are [...]
Interesting article… I have similar concern.
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/enderle/can-competitors-unite-as-gpu-computing-ushers-in-a-new-age/?cs=36397#