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| GeForce LAN 6 Registration Is Now Open Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:43 AM PDT Good news for those of you who are patiently waiting to register for GeForce LAN 6. We've officially opened registration for our annual GeForce LAN – with seats available on a first come, first served basis. If you haven't yet heard, this year's GeForce LAN will be on a boat – the WWII-era aircraft carrier USS Hornet, to be precise. Neither T-Pain nor Andy Samberg has returned my calls, but I'm still holding out hope. When you walk onto the USS Hornet next month, you'll be greeted by a scent unlike any other – metal, oil, machinery, hard work and history. It's hard to describe, but you'll definitely get the sense that this ship (and its past crews) have been through a lot.
On the flight deck, you'll see San Francisco across the Bay, an F4 fighter jet in need of a paint job and a solitary F14 Tomcat air superiority fighter at the western end of the deck (apparently ready for action at a moment's notice). There's also plenty of room for dodgeball up there, so bring your ball-handling skills with you. Below the deck, the hangar bay is not only wide, but several hundred feet long – it's going to look cool when it's completely filled and buzzing with attendees' PCs. Here's some of the Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) goodness planned for this epic, two-day affair:
If you're planning to register as a BYOC attendee, you might want to check out our LANCAMP option. LANCAMP attendees will spend Friday and Saturday night aboard the USSHornet in their very own Navy-certified, smaller-than-your-childhood-bed rack ("Navy" for bed). For two nights, you'll get a taste of what it was like for generations of sailors who were underway on the Hornet throughout its many decades of service. GeForce LAN could not happen without the support of our sponsors, and we're stoked to have so many on board (yes, I just wrote that). Platinum Partners: EVGA, Toshiba Gold Partners: Corsair, MSI, ZOTAC Silver Partners: Coolermaster, Cyberpower, Digital Storm, Plantronics, Systemax, V3 3D Monitors provided by: ASUS Additional Support from: Antec, Falcon Northwest, and Kingston If you're in India and can't make it out the Bay Area, we're also expanding GeForce LAN overseas. Our NVIDIA India team will host over 1,000 PC gamers for PC tournaments and contests in Mumbai. And, if that's not enough, GeForce LAN Mumbai attendees will all have a chance to pit their gaming skills against Bollywood megastar (and PC gaming fanatic) Shahrukh Khan. [Special thanks to Mat Harris for his headline image contribution. See more of his work here.] | ||
| Quad-core Kal-El’s Stealth Fifth Core Lets it Save on Energy Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:13 AM PDT Our next-generation Tegra processor, codenamed "Project Kal-El," is widely known as the world's first quad-core mobile chip. Today, we're unveiling Kal-El's little-known fifth core in two new whitepapers that detail its "Variable SMP" architecture. The first whitepaper outlines the patented fifth core. This extra core – which we call the "companion core" – runs at a lower frequency and operates at exceptionally low power. During less power-hungry tasks like web reading, music playback and video playback, Kal-El completely powers down its four performance-tuned cores and instead uses its fifth companion core. For higher performance tasks, Kal-El disables its companion core and turns on its four performance cores, one at a time, as the work load increases. The Variable SMP architecture is also completely OS transparent, which means that operating systems and applications don't need to be redesigned to take advantage of the fifth core. The second whitepaper discusses the benefits of quad-core across different types of use cases – web, games, apps, multitasking and more. We also highlight examples of how quad-core Kal-El uses less power than dual-core processors across all performance points. Project Kal-El also includes a brand-new 12-core GPU that delivers up to 3x the graphics performance of Tegra 2, as well as several additional new capabilities. We'll have more details on these aspects soon. So, does a quad-core processor that outperforms other processors while using less power appeal to you? Grab the whitepapers here and here (PDF links), then let us know what you think in the comments below. |
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