What is new at SiSoftware. SiSoftware, founded in 1995, is one of the leading providers of computer analysis, diagnostic and benchmarking software. The flagship product, known as SANDRA, was launched in 1997 and has become one of the most widely used products in its field. SANDRA is used by almost 600 world-wide IT publications, magazines, review sites to analyse the performance of today's computers. Over 6,000 on-line reviews of computer hardware that use SANDRA are catalogued on the company's website alone. en http://www.sisoftware.co.uk SiSoftware Ltd 1995-2008. All Rights Reserved. adrian.silasi.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (C. Adrian Silasi) webmaster.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT SiSoftware 10080 http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/images/cover.png http://www.sisoftware.co.uk News @ SiSoftware news As you may know, as of today, the VAT rate for the UK has dropped from 17.5% to 15%, a 2.5% saving we are passing onto you! Enjoy! daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?a=VAT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?a=VAT news While both major vendors have announced plans to bundle GPGPU functionality (ATI-STREAM, nVidia-CUDA) in their next sets of video drivers, just want to remind you that Sandra 2009 already includes all the libraries and configurations needed! As long as you have a relatively recent set of video drivers (ATI-Catalyst 8.5 or later, nVidia-Forceware 177.35 or later) you are good to go! more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=2009_release&a=GPGPU http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=2009_release&a=GPGPU news What are they? A set of benchmarks designed to measure arithmetic performance, i.e. how fast it can crunch numbers. These are native ports of the traditional CPU benchmarks that have been available in Sandra since 1995. They allow us to directly compare CPU with GPGPU performance by using the same algorithms and the same data. (Updated with Core i7) more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=cpu_vs_gpu_proc http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=cpu_vs_gpu_proc news What are they? A set of benchmarks designed to measure memory bandwidth, both internal and to/from the host system. These are native ports of the traditional memory benchmarks that have been available in Sandra since 1998. They allow us to directly compare CPU with GPGPU performance by using the same algorithms and the same data. (Updated with Core i7) more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=cpu_vs_gpu_mem http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=cpu_vs_gpu_mem news Software has announced the availability of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SiSoftware Sandra 2009, the latest version of its award-winning utility.<BR><BR>The focus of this service release has been improved support, compatibility and reliability rather than new features. We have been working closely with more hardware vendors than before to be able to bring greater direct support of an increased market share of commodity and server technologies.. daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=2009_release&a=SP1 http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=2009_release&a=SP1 news Can you out translate Sandra in your language? We are looking for someone to continue the Chinese version.<BR><BR>If you are interested, do contact us and we will send you the localisation kit.<BR><BR>Thank you. daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://support.sisoftware.co.uk/index.php?a=add http://support.sisoftware.co.uk/index.php?a=add news We are pleased to launch SiSoftware Sandra 2009. This version introduces additional support in the graphics performance space. Not only including support for DirectX (9/10), SiSoftware has added two GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) benchmarks as well as dedicated benchmarks that measure cryptographic performance. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Mon, 8 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=2009_release http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=2009_release news At SiSoftware we constantly look out for new technology and aim to understand how that technology can best be benchmarked and analysed. We believe the industry is seeing a shift from the model where heavy computational workload is processed on a traditional CPU to a model that uses the GPGPU instead: in a wide range of applications developers are using the power of GPGPU to aid business analysis, games, graphics and scientific applications. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=gpgpu_release http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=gpgpu_release news Cryptography has become an important part of our digital life: it allows us to conduct safe transactions online, certify programs and services, keep our data secure and much more. The speed at which cryptographic operations (encryption, decryption, hashing, signing) can be performed is thus very much important. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=crypto_release http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=crypto_release