Recent content by Deano Calver

Just some thoughts (based on no real information) from my blog about the PS3 slides from http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2005/0722/kaigai199.htm Which I thought might be interesting to some here The most interesting thing to me, is that the tool looks like a 1U Rack mount. This really...

Bah - the console forum comes back when I wasn't looking. My post about this is on the developers forum...

This week Sony have acquired SN-Systems, hooked up with Transmeta and are providing Havok and Novodex for free and you get a 90 day eval of UE3. SN-Sys have traditional been the favorite for UK devs, most PS2 dev-houses in the UK (and probably else where) use SN-Sys. It integrates into Visual...

More interesting stuff about Amdahl from valoh this time. These papers claim that Amdhal Law is too pessimistic. http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Publications/Gus/AmdahlsLaw/Amdahls.html http://joda.cis.temple.edu/~shi/docs/amdahl/amdahl.html My personal view of these is that there a bit...

Gubbi pointed out I was spelling Amdahl wrong and provided the link to the comp.parallel faq. Armdahl paper in comp.parallel faq At the end is Amdahl's seminal paper itself. Thanks Gubbi :-)

As multi-processor is the hot topic, I'd thought I'd mention Amdahl's Law... A clever man once said "Overhead alone would then place an upper limit on throughput of five to seven times the sequential processing rate, even if the housekeeping were done in a separate processor" Sounds very...

Herb Sutter discusses the future for programmers... http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm

Just Add Monsters became Ninja Theory the other day due to the 'fun' caused by Argonaut's problems. http://www.ninjatheory.com/ Good news is that about from a couple of weeks thinking we were out of jobs, nothing much at changed at the grass root levels. Heavenly sword continues as before...

Some years ago, the big thing was the convergance of Hollywood and gaming. A glut of truely awful FMV games followed, possible marking the worse gaming period in the last two decades. A similar malaise seems to have fallen over the industry again, the logic being because Hollywood have made...

GraphixViolence made some interesting comments about my stance, read it and my reply at http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=332463#332463 Hopefully I've explained myself better this time. Reading the post I originally made back, it wasn't exactly what I won't to say but it is at...

Dave asked me about Stencils on PM, this was my reply (slightly edited for public consumption) that he suggested other people might be interested in, so here it is. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I've been a shadow map fan for a long time, so I'm slightly...

For some reason lots of people see every game thats beginning to support SM3.0 as being 'pro' NVIDIA. People seem to forget that time spent on SM3.0 is good for the future wheras SM2.0B isn't. Any time/money spent on SM3.0 is a good investment, most game devs have to work tight budgets and...

As a mentioned them thought I'd throw up the abstracts, I'll see about getting the real things posted here soon (assuming legals o.k. and Dave doesn't mind). Deferred Lighting on PS 3.0 with High Dynamic Range Deferred lighting is a technique increasingly being used for real-time...

I've had a tiring week of conferences and meetings. The only ones I can discuss was the 6800 Leagues conference NVIDIA held on Monday and Tuesday down in London. 1.5 half days of NVIDIA and MS (PC DirectX stuff). It wasn't quite as busy as it might have been, but that was because they weren't...

Stumped by some shader code I'm working on I was at my wits end so I figured why not try the Visual Studio Shader Debugger again. Its never managed to work for me but today it did!, sure you have to use software (REF) etc. but I can see what data getting into the shader and step over HLSL and...