Los Angeles Convention Center Virtual Texturing in Software and Hardware Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 403AB This course introduces partially resident textures (PRTs), a new GPU feature for virtual texturing, and contrasts them with software-based methods of virtual texturing. PRTs are available in the Southern Islands (Radeon HD 7xxx) family of graphics processors. The basic idea of virtual texturing is simple: instead of maintaining a separate texture for each object rendered on the screen,...

UK Border Agency sending home illegal immigrants on virtually empty chartered jets This year the agency spent £9million chartering 37 flights, equating to £250,000 per plane Many are leaving nearly empty after last-minute appeals from those facing deportation The UK Border Agency has been hit by new controversy after it emerged it was spending millions of pounds deporting failed asylum seekers on near empty chartered flights. UKBA has spent £133million in the last five years, or an average of £5,00...