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NVIDIA Announces Parallel Nsight Support for Visual Studio 2010 and Up to 300% Performance Increase in CUDA Toolkit Libraries

Santa Clara, CA – September 15, 2010 – Today NVIDIA extended its leadership in GPU computing with the announcement of new versions of its two industry-leading developer tools:  Parallel Nsight and the CUDA Toolkit.

Parallel Nsight is the only integrated development environment for creating GPU-accelerated applications for a range of desktop and supercomputing platforms.  Parallel Nsight version 1.5 includes support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Tesla Compute Cluster (TCC) debugging, the updated CUDA Toolkit version 3.2, full support for NVIDIA’s recently announced, high-performance Fermi GPU architecture, and other advanced debugging and analysis capabilities.  The new CUDA Toolkit 3.2 release includes two new math libraries, significant performance improvements and support for the new 6GB Tesla and Quadro products.

A short video overview of the new features in CUDA Toolkit 3.2 and Parallel Nsight 1.5 is available at:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/CUDA/…

Parallel Nsight 1.5 Standard edition will be available as a free update on September 22.  In addition, a release candidate of the Professional edition, which includes all Standard edition features plus additional capabilities, including the System Analysis functionality, will also be available.  For more information about Parallel Nsight 1.5, please visit: www.nvidia.com/ParallelNsight.

The CUDA Toolkit includes all the tools, libraries and documentation developers need to build CUDA C/C++ applications, and is the foundation for many other GPU computing language solutions.  In addition to delivering up to 300 percent faster FFT and BLAS performance compared with the previous release, the new CUDA Toolkit 3.2 release includes new libraries for sparse matrix multiplication, random number generation, H.264 encode/decode, and new cluster management features.

For more information on the free CUDA Toolkit please visit: www.nvidia.com/getcuda.

CUDA and Parallel Nsight at GTC

With more than 280 hours of GPU-focused sessions, six sessions on Parallel Nsight and more than 25 sessions on CUDA C/C++ development, NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) will provide a wealth of information on GPU computing news, developments and achievements.  In addition, experts from NVIDIA and Microsoft will be providing hands-on training and educational sessions on Parallel Nsight, Visual Studio 2010, Windows HPC Server 2008, and CUDA C/C++ development at the Parallel Nsight Lounge by Microsoft (Sept. 20-23, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.).  For more information about the Lounge and GTC please visit www.nvidia.com/gtc.

Press Contact:
George Millington
NVIDIA Corporation
(408) 562-7226

gmillington@nvidia.com

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA’s expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. The company holds more than 1,100 U.S. patents, including ones covering designs which are fundamental to modern computing. For more information, see www.nvidia.com.

Synowledge Announces 15 New Customer Wins Worldwide

LONDON — August 30, 2010 – Synowledge LLC, a market leader in drug safety and pharmacovigilance services and related IT solutions for life sciences organizations of all sized announced its largest customer win growth to-date. Synowledge signs 15 new customers in 2010 (including a fortune 100 company and a top 20 pharma company). These new accounts outline Synowledge’s accelerating growth in its customer base and revenues.

Synowledge’s proven ability to provide its customers with quality services is evident in this double digit customer account growth. Synowledge’s growth in customer wins was spurred by the expansion of its global customer base – as well as Synowledge’s excellent service to existing customers.

In the past one year, Synowledge has dramatically increased its customer base with a number of new customers, including a fortune 100 company and a top 20 pharma company across the globe. In addition, existing Synowledge customers continued to upgrade and expand their usage of Synowledge solutions. Synwoledge’s strategic direction and customer-focused approach continue to drive the company’s innovation and growth.

“Synowledge, backed by its strong expertise in drug safety, PV and IT solutions, continues to invest proactively in the strategic expansion of its solution suite. Our solutions continue to be chosen over those offered by some of the largest service providers in the industry,” said David Ingraham, Director, Marketing & Sales.

About Synowledge

Synowledge is a global provider of drug safety and pharmacovigilance services and related IT solutions to small, mid and large size pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Our comprehensive outsourcing solutions combine the unique strengths of both onshore and offshore services to meet all our clients’ needs. With more than 15 years of industry experience, our core team members have worked with leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and health provider organizations. We have our headquarters located in Stamford CT, USA and additional offices in Bangalore, India and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit www.synowledge.com.

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Synowledge Continues Global Expansion with New Offices in UK and USA

LONDON — August 30, 2010 – Synowledge LLC, the market leader in drug safety and pharmacovigilance services and related IT solutions for life sciences organizations announced its inauguration of two new offices in Brentford, UK and Columbus OH, USA as part of its ongoing global growth strategy. These two new offices will act as strategic development centers and will also provide support services to Synowledge’s expanding client-base in the US and UK markets. The office addresses are given below:

UK Office Address:

Synowledge UK Limited

1000 Great West Road

Brentford, TW8 9HH

United Kingdom

USA Office Address:

1900 Polaris Parkway, Suite 450

Columbus, Ohio

43240

The decision to establish these two new offices in the US and UK is a result of the significant customer wins Synowledge has experienced in 2010. The expertise of Synowledge’s professionals and their ability to work closely with its customers as a trusted partner have resulted in significant growth in customer base and enhanced level of interest in our solutions.

The USA and UK region is a key market for Synowledge, and we recognize how important these two new facilities are for both our existing business initiatives and future strategic campaigns in the region. In addition to meeting current challenges for Synwoledge’s strategic growth, these two facilities will allow Synowledge to deliver superior sales and support to our customers and to the growing prospect base in the regions.

“We have seen a growing need from our clients in these two regions. Strengthening our presence in key regions around the globe is among a number of current programs we have launched to improve our customer service and build stronger relationships with our customers around the world.” said David Ingraham, Director, Marketing & Sales, “Since embarking on its worldwide strategic expansion plan in 2006, Synowledge is committed to deliver on technology innovation by continually improving our ability to service our current and new clients’ needs.”

About Synowledge

Synowledge is a global provider of drug safety and pharmacovigilance services and related IT solutions to small, mid and large size pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Our comprehensive outsourcing solutions combine the unique strengths of both onshore and offshore services to meet all our clients’ needs. With more than 15 years of industry experience, our core team members have worked with leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and health provider organizations. We have our headquarters located in Stamford CT, USA and additional offices in Bangalore, India and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit www.synowledge.com.

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Companies around the world losing thousands of pounds in website downtime

Companies located around the World are being urged to become more aware of the financial costs of web downtime.

Andrew Hilton, Technical Director at QuadroNation, said companies were in danger of losing thousands of pounds in revenue after recent studies showed almost one in four companies have suffered an outage that lasted more than one business day.

Amazon and Twitter are just two of the major brands that have been affected, having both experienced one full hour of outage earlier this week.

In order to combat the problem and after requests from their customer base, Andrew and the team have developed a web monitoring service entitled ‘UporNot’, which alerts businesses the minute they have an issue with their website, email server or any web accessible service for that matter.

Andrew said: “When a company suffers from IT downtime it means that it is having a direct affect on that business. Some firms can lose up to £10,000 an hour or even a staggering £1m a day, which means that the problem needs to be taken more seriously.”

“What we have now created is a tool to stop that from happening. The moment there is something wrong with a website, we are alerted and the problem can be rectified as soon as possible.”

The need for strategic IT support is becoming increasingly important as firms strive to provide high levels of service to retain long-standing customers.

Andrew added: “IT support companies are still as invaluable as ever to any business, however, if a site goes down, it has to be treated in a different way than when there is something wrong with an email system, for example and being aware of the issue is really the first step.”

UporNot, which has now gone live, has already attracted global interest as it provides its services to companies around the world.

www.upornot.com

Real Time Press Release Distribution

In today’s Internet the real time information is already playing a significant role in how businesses and people access and consume the information online. Technologies online have emerged up to the point where 2 minutes may sometimes be the difference between having tens of thousands of people not only seen your PR announcement, but creating a long tail of reactions across the vast real time online space adding up to your overall online presence/reputation and your message being buried down among millions of other identical pieces of information.

Considering how crucial the real time information for the average business and web user appears to be, one can only imagine how great the impact of the real time information flow over the public relations business online can be.

That’s why we think it is about time for RealTimePressRelease.com — real time press release distribution online.

In a nutshell RealTimePressRelease.com is a do-it-yourself publishing platform for real time press release distribution. It’s free and you can instantly have your press release published on RealTimePressRelease.com as well as released via the Web, the Blogosphere and the Twitter. Having spent almost 2 decades within the PR industry, and currently engaged with EPR Network, one of the largest press release distribution networks online, it’s been just a matter of time for us to realize how vital a real time press release distribution service online is.