A few months after nVIDIA brought Ageia they have released the first drivers which use a GeForce series videocard to do the calculations for PhysX instead of the CPU or a dedicated PhysX card. The new GeForce ForceWare 177.83 drivers include the PhysX driver.
The driver supports NVIDIA GeForce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series desktop GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, and 9500 GT GPUs.
The driver adds support for NVIDIA PhysXTM acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory.
NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.08.01 is automatically installed with this driver package.
Downloads
The xen development team has released version 3.3.0 of their virtualisation software.
The Xen® hypervisor is the fastest and most secure infrastructure virtualization solution available today, supporting a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris and various versions of the BSD operating systems.
New features
- Power management (P & C states) in the hypervisor
- HVM emulation domains (‘qemu-on-minios’) for better scalability, performance and security
- PVGrub: boot PV kernels using real GRUB inside the PV domain
- Better PV performance: domain lock removed from pagetable-update paths
- Shadow3: optimisations to make this the best shadow pagetable algorithm yet, making HVM performance better than ever
- Hardware Assisted Paging enhancements: 2MB page support for better TLB locality
- CPUID feature levelling: allows safe domain migration across systems with different CPU models.
- PVSCSI drivers for SCSI access direct into PV guests
- HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more efficiently
- Device passthrough enhancements
- Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT: supports a much wider range of legacy guest OSes
- New qemu merge with upstream development
- Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports
Download
Downloads are available as precompiled kernel (2.6.18 with xen 3.3.0 support) or source. Both are available in tarball format.
http://www.xen.org/download/
The last couple of days have been very busy for me. Not only is a new schoolyear going to start, the website has also undergone some important changes.
Most important is that this website now uses a caching mechanism (WP Super Cache) to avoid server-load problems which could cause long rendertimes or worse – errors.
The very latest update of the contact form also uses this caching mechanism.
Lightbox has been replaced with an already available system, jQuery Lightbox. Not only does this decrease the page loading time it`s also a bit faster.
When placing comments you can choose if you want to be informed by email whenever someone replies or places another comment on the message.
I`ve just completed the forum engine update. The forum now runs on bbPress 1.0 )alpha)
You can find the forum at www.ramoonus.nl/bbpress/
The forum totally integrates with the website which means you can use the same login info on both the site and forum (or an OpenID)
I`ve just registered on a couple of web 2.0 and social networking sites. The links are added in the sitebar.
Added to the list (and menu) are
- Ma.gnolia
- Spock
- ClaimID
- Dopplr
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