GTC 2015 Deep Learning and OpenPOWER

Another great GTC meeting. NVIDIA does this right! The most interesting aspects for me this year were the talks on “Deep Learning” (Artificial Neural Networks) and OpenPOWER. I have some observations and links to recordings of the keynotes and talks. Enjoy!

My Impressions of Windows 10 Technical Preview

The Ford Mustang, Apple’s iPhone and pretty much any Harley Davidson bike are a few products whose design is debated and aggressively deliberated among fans. Even the slightest design or spec change can send fans running for social media to discuss and debate. It’s dangerous business messing with a classic.

When you tell people your favorite Mustang is the ’65 Fastback, you’re drawing a line in the sand between the classic and the new. You stand for something and can defend your position. In fact, you probably search for opportunities to defend your choice.

The Best Time to Purchase a PC

I was recently in the market for a new tablet. I didn’t really need a new tablet, but when you have 3 kids fighting over two tablets, sometimes need and want are the same.

Intel 750 SSDs

Puget Systems is pleased to offer the new lineup of Intel 750 series PCI-E SSDs! With amazing performance and great cooling, these are an excellent pick for a high performance PC or workstation.

Titan X – What is it and who is it for?

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan X isn’t for everyone – no $1000 video card ever will be – but it has some very specific roles where it excels. Click here to read about what the Titan X is and what it does well at!

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

TITAN X is built for the most demanding gaming enthusiast. It combines the latest technologies and extreme performance of the new NVIDIA Maxwell architecture in the fastest, most advanced graphics card on the planet.

NVIDIA CUDA GPU computing on a (modern) laptop

Modern high-end laptops can be treated as desktop system replacements so it’s expected that people will want to try to do some serious computing on them. Doing GPU accelerated computing on a laptop is possible and performance can be surprisingly good with a high-end NVIDIA GPU. [I’m looking at GTX 980m and 970m ]. However, first you have to get it to work! Optimus technology can present serious problems to someone who wants to run a Linux based CUDA laptop computing platform. Read on to see what worked.

Good food takes time

All kinds of things come up during the build process. We check and double check. We tweak. We modify. We look for the perfect. Perfect builds take time and our standards are high. We want you to walk away feeling that every dollar you spent, every day you waited was absolutely worth it.

Intel vs NVIDIA, IBM, Mellanox, AMD and everybody!

The next 18 months are going to see more shakeup and factioning in the computing world than we have seen in over a decade. Intel is pulling more and more of the compute architecture onto a single piece of silicon and tightly integrating the whole hardware stack. That’s good and bad. It may let them achieve better performance. However, this is going to leave users with a choice of “all Intel” or something else entirely. And, the “something else” is starting to seriously take shape.