patrick moorhead | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:43:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png patrick moorhead | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Shocking pace of change – Moor Insights to follow https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jules/shocking-pace-of-change-moor-insights-to-follow/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jules/shocking-pace-of-change-moor-insights-to-follow/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:30:41 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=126983 Having VP-ed at the highest levels in the tech industry, Patrick Moorhead has now started his own consultancy and he came over to Monte Carlo to share his latest insights with an eager crowd of EMEA's top buying and selling talent. KitGuru operatives managed to sneak out some telling shots. Just like KitGuru, Patrick is …

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Having VP-ed at the highest levels in the tech industry, Patrick Moorhead has now started his own consultancy and he came over to Monte Carlo to share his latest insights with an eager crowd of EMEA's top buying and selling talent. KitGuru operatives managed to sneak out some telling shots.

Just like KitGuru, Patrick is fascinated with the changes that the future internet will bring. Right now, we're all looking at the launch of 4G and dreaming about a 1Gb connection to our homes – the kind of thing that can be enjoyed in the world's leading technology countries like South Korea.

Right now, labs across the world are working toward products that will operate in the 5-50Gb a second range, while the most advanced research is pushing for a solution that will allow the flow of data around the 450Gb/sec level.

That would be around 45GB/sec.

That's something like 10x quicker than the fastest RAID SSD set up we've seen.

OK, so there are lots of changes coming, but what can really happen in just 5 years. Patrick's opening slides had everything thinking long and hard about the rate of change:-

Seeing these amazingly powerful changes, laid out side by side, makes it easier to look forward and understand the kind of tomorrow we'll be enjoying

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That's transmission speed covered, what else is Patrick expecting to have an impact?

Well he is keen on Intel's Computing Continuum or the Internet of Everything, where almost everything around us will be imbued with processing capability and networked so it can share data.

He touched on medical applications, which set up the latest products from the far east perfectly. People are, fundamentally, lazy. If we can have one device for everything, then that's what we'll carry. Processing and interfaces can exist elsewhere – where they are needed – all we have to carry are the essentials.

Patrick illustrated this point with MobiPlug – a technology that allows you to control almost everything around you from a smartphone. Again, back to smartphones. It was hard to get away from these devices at Distree 2013 – even though they played little part in the event 5 years ago.

Once he got onto the future speed of wireless transmission, Patrick was off and running

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Going back to the displays and interfaces, we earlier touched on the phenomenal speeds that will be achieved in hard wired networks in the near future, but Patrick also expects the various WiFi speeds we see now to pick up by a factor of around 50. Easily enough to stream HD from a mobile device to screens around your home, car, office and – pretty much – anywhere else you find yourself.

The device we carry around only needs to be able to scale up and down – according to the kind of display it encounters (we're assuming that the graphics driver won't be .NET based and over 140MB, like Patrick's old employers).

As the world moves toward the cloud, it's unclear what exactly will be carried on these portable devices. i.e. What will be the prime function of the ‘thing in your pocket'. Data?  The ability to process?  Identity?  It will be interesting.

Finally, Patrick drew everyone's attention to WHERE the war is taking place in technology – and where the NEXT battles will be staged.

It's obvious when everything is focused on the devices and the operating systems. More recently, we've seen huge battles between the various Application and Content stores. With Apple pioneering the high street, everyone can see that a well run retail operation can work – which is where Microsoft and Google will be investing heavily over the next few years.

Which brings us to the battlegrounds of the future – control of everything. From the distribution and installation of products – through to the delivery mechanisms and the ability to be the ‘provider of choice', whether it's for home use, on the move or in your preferred method of transport.

The world's biggest companies will be vying to control the pipeline from your bank account to theirs

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KitGuru says: We're broadly in agreement with Patrick's analysis. While Intel may have popularised the idea of a computing continuum, control of the ‘front to back' will be where the money is rung out of the loop. How the channel makes money in the future is a little less clear, but there will be opportunities.

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nVidia hits workstation overdrive with Kepler Maximus https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/nvidia-hits-workstation-overdrive-with-kepler-maximus/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/nvidia-hits-workstation-overdrive-with-kepler-maximus/#respond Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:48:40 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=103098 The actual creation of next generation content is one of the most processor-intensive tasks you can demand from your system. With the launch of its next-generation Maximus products at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, nVidia is aiming to place the bar high enough that no one else can touch the customers who want that kind of …

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The actual creation of next generation content is one of the most processor-intensive tasks you can demand from your system. With the launch of its next-generation Maximus products at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, nVidia is aiming to place the bar high enough that no one else can touch the customers who want that kind of power. KitGuru dons SPF30 and heads over to see what the fuss is about in LA.

If the second fastest computer in the world has nVidia Tesla cards at its core, you know that the graphics giant must be doing something right, but with a name like Maximus (and definitely with a second generation of Maximus), you must expect even more.

First up, you won't find Maximus listed on any of nVidia's online product sheets. That's because it's a ‘technology'. In the case of Maximus, it's a combination of brand new Tesla cards (e.g. the $3,199 K20 which is due to be delivered by Santa around Xmas 2012) and the latest high-end Quadro cards (e.g. the $2,249 Quadro K5000).

The ‘k' is not a nod to Intel and its black-arts overclocking range of processors, but rather an indication that the card in question uses nVidia's Kepler technology at its core. Comparing the similarly named Quadro 5000 with the 5000k, you can see a huge difference. The new 5000k has almost 5x the Stream processors, 3x the texture units, an 80% increase on memory clock and yet the memory bus is smaller (256-bit Vs 320-bit) and it has less ROPs (32 Vs 40).

So which market is nVidia targeting with its second generation Maximus products? Well the list of customers who have certified applications includes Abaqus, Adobe, ANSYS, Autodesk, Blackmagic, Dassault, Eyeon, Paradigm, PTC, Quantel and Solidworks. Impressive stuff.

The Tesla part of the equation is when nVidia takes a high end graphics card and removes the display output sections. When the K20 launches toward the end of this year, it will have more than 7 billion transistors [One for every man, woman and child on the planet – Ed] on standby for your favourite applications – and it will suck up to 300w from your electrical supply in order to keep the 7 billion on the move.

Combining Tesla K20 cards with Quadro k5000 cards will give you unparalleled professional processing power, according to nVidia.  From their own literature, its not only the peak-power available to crunch the numbers in a single application that will give the new Maximus technology a leadership position – but also the ability for the workstation user to kick of multiple demanding applications at once.

This increase in productivity was highlighted by industry analyst and former AMD VP, Patrick Moorhead, “My favorite thing about nVidia's Maximus 2 is its impact on design workflow. Changing that means it's a big deal”.

nVidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang's opinion seems to resonate with that feeling, if his PR minions actually share his thoughts, “nVidia's Maximus technology already dramatically accelerates workflows by simultaneously performing complex analysis and visualization on a single machine”.

Or ‘Doing lots of things at once, really quickly, is cool', as one expert put it.

Patrick Moorhead shares Jen Hsun Huang's enthusiast for nVidia's second generation of Maximus technologhy. You can make up your own 'Husband to a murdered pipeline' jokes here.

KitGuru says: Whether you go with nVidia's second generation Maximus platform toward the end of this year or choose a competing technology, anyone involved in design/content creation will love the way this kind of power can liberate your creativity. We've lived through an age when real time video processing was an achievement – now we're into an era where real time is far, far too slow.

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