Rendercore Launches Macintosh OSX Support for LightWave 8.5

Source:Digital Animators
May 23, 2006

Rendercore's proprietary premier remote rendering solution "RenMan" allows all clients who are connected to the Internet to access Rendercore's sophisticated and secure renderfarm. This allows clients to manage jobs in progress through the intuitive interface by allowing automatic uploads of files for submission and monitoring of submitted jobs remotely and efficiently, from anywhere, anytime.
Rendercore in the past year has added numerous modules and versions of many of the computer graphics tools to its product list in order to continue to meet the growing needs of its client base.

About Rendercore
Founded in Hollywood in 2002, Rendercore offers on-demand, remote rendering services and solutions for the customers from such diversified industries as entertainment, architectural, engineering and industrial design who demand huge computing resources.
With over 3Tera Hz computing power built on the latest Intel dual Xeon and dual core processors, a cutting edge super-computing infrastructure and the industrys first remote rendering software, Rendercore's renderfarm provides instant on, outsource rendering capacity for users of Alias Maya, 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D, LightWave, Brazil r/s, Turtle.

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Nanya Will Launch New DD3 Memory Modules for PC Category

Source: Softpedia
5/4/2006

A Taiwanese memory chip manufacturer, Nanya Technology, announced that it will start producing its new DDR3 memory modules for PCs, releasing the DDR3 dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in 2008. The company is the fourth chip maker to turn to DD3 products, after Elpida, Infineon and Samsung.Even if the prototype of the new Nanya PC3-8500 1GB DDR3 unbuffered dual in-line memory module (DIMM) utilizing 512Mb 1066MHz chips was shown during the SemiTech Taipei 2006 conference, there are no devices supporting the new product. On the other hand, Intel Corp., the world’s leader in memory technology, is expected to launch its first chipset for PCs that supports DDR3 memory in the second half of 2007.

Advantages compared to DDR2 (manufacturer’s recommendations)

• - The components are twice as fast as today's highest speed DDR2 memory products.
• - The first computer systems equipped with the advanced DDR3 memory technology are expected to arrive in late 2006. - The main advantages of DDR3 are the higher bandwidth and the increase in performance at low power.
• - The DDR3 SDRAM devices will offer data transfer rates up to 1600 Mbps (megabits per second).
• - The supply voltage for the memory technology is being reduced from 1.8 volts for DDR2 to just 1.5 volts for DDR3 targeting a work day equivalent of battery time. The voltage reduction limits the amount of power that is consumed and heat that is generated in connection with the increase in bandwidths.
  

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Oklahoma Ranks Near Bottom In Educational Technology Study

Source:Kotv
5/4/2006

According to a national study, Oklahoma ranks 44th in the nation for access and use of educational technology.Education Week's annual report titled "Technology Counts 2006" gave Oklahoma a 69.5, compared with the national average of 76.6.
The study graded states on 14 indicators spanning three general areas. The areas include access to technology, use of technology and capacity to use technology.

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SonicWall Rolls Out E-Mail Protection Wares

Source:InformationWeek
May 2, 2006

The new SonicWall Email Security appliances will incorporate anti-spam, anti-phishing, and messaging security software SonicWall obtained in its February acquisition of MailFrontier.

This year, SonicWall plans to roll out new SonicWall Email Security appliances that pack the inbound and outbound messaging protection tools from the MailFrontier deal, said Gleb Budman, senior director of product management at SonicWall, Sunnyvale, Calif.
Software that loads SonicWall's new Email Security 5.0 messaging security software on Windows 2000 servers is available now for small- and midsize-business and enterprise environments, Budman said. The first appliances for SMBs are due out in May, with enterprise appliances following in mid-June.

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