SPU Falcon Racing Baja SAE is a collegiate engineering design group for undergraduate students located at Seattle Pacific University in Queen Anne, WA. The team is competing to have its Baja SAE vehicle design accepted for manufacture by a fictitious firm. In order to provide optimal performance for both their work in SOLIDWORKS, and FEA simulations in ANSYS, SPU Falcon Racing Baja SAE used a system from the Puget Systems Obsidian line of PCs.
ASUS Live Update Utility and Broken Security
The ASUS LiveUpdate utility has been found to have a security flaw. It allows remote HTTP requests to push updates. How does this impact Puget computers that use ASUS motherboards?
EVGA GTX 1080 Trade-In Offer
If you have you purchased a new computer with an EVGA GTX graphics card within that last 90 days and want to upgrade to a new Pascal GPU, EVGA has a program to allow you to trade in your existing card and upgrade to a better or newer model.
Windows 10 Sleep Cycle Freezing With Intel 7260 Installed
We are aware that many of you have been having issues with your Windows 10 system failing to transition into sleep mode. After a lengthy investigation we have found a solution for those users with a Intel 7260 Wifi card installed.
A quick look at GTX 1080 performance in Premiere Pro
The new GTX 1080 has shown some impressive results in gaming benchmarks, but how well does it work in Premiere Pro?
NVIDIA GeForce GTX
NVIDIA’s flagship GeForce GTX 1080 is the most advanced gaming GPU ever created, powered by the high-performance, energy-efficient new NVIDIA Pascal architecture.
GTX 1080 CUDA performance on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) preliminary results (nbody and NAMD)
Just got a NVIDIA GTX 1080 for testing. I hacked up an install with Ubuntu 16.04 and CUDA 7.5 along with a beta display driver that works! First run after compiling the cuda samples nbody gave 5816 GFLOP/s! A GTX 980 on the same system does 2572 GFLOP/s. However, it’s not all good news …
Windows 10 Upgrade Woes
This article discusses the recent problems with Microsoft more or less forcing Windows 10 upgrades.
Intel Broadwell Xeon E5 2600v4 performance test
The Intel Xeon E5 2600 v4 Broadwell processors are finally available. My first Linpack testing with a E5-2687W v4 shows a greater than 35% performance increase over the v3 Haswell version! And, it’s the same price as the v3 version! It’s significantly better than expected.
Install Intel Python using conda from Anaconda Python
You can try Intel Python from your Anaconda install using conda!