Posts Tagged ‘GPU’

December 2025

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Pupdate It’s been quite dry over the Christmas break, which has encouraged some longer than usual walks that the boys have enjoyed. After a scan at the start of the month Milo has now almost completed the first cycle of his 4th modified ‘CHOP’ chemotherapy protocol. As before, low neutrophils mean we’re a little behind […]


TL;DR Nvidia have ended Linux support for my ‘Pascal’ GTX 1050 Ti GPU. I’ve been able to fit an RTX 5050 card in its place, though the process was problematic due to driver issues. And I’m still concerned that it can only be limited to 110W when my passive cooling is rated up to 75W. […]


TornadoVM was definitely the coolest thing I learned about at QCon London last week, which is why I wrote up the presentation on InfoQ. It seems that people on the Orange web site are also interested in the intersection of Java, GPUs and FPGA, as the piece was #1 there last night as I went […]


Dr Juan Fumero presented at QCon London on TornadoVM, a plug-in to OpenJDK and GraalVM that runs Java on heterogeneous hardware including Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Demos during the presentation showed code being speeded up by hundreds of times when running on a GPU vs a CPU. Continue reading the full […]


Since I was so happy with the HP 650 business laptop that I got for my wife, my father in law decided to get one too. I was surprised to find that the Windows Experience Index (WEI) was so much slower than I’d seen on my wife’s machine: It’s no surprise that the memory benchmark […]