In the past two years, the major web browsers have added support for the graphics processing unit (GPU) that’s a part of every PC. You might be aware that the GPU is there, but it rarely got used if you weren’t playing games. Quietly, the GPU is being put to work in non-entertainment ways. GPUs [...]
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Frontiers in Virtualization for Quality Assurance
by Cameron Laird | Comments
Quality Assurance was the first domain where virtualization (as currently understood) moved from hype to reality. Testing laboratories began to manage desktop environments. Instead of inventorying them as physical assets — that machine over there is set up with WinNT SP3, and that’s a Vista system, and so on — desktop environments became software images [...]
