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121Direct3D — is part of Microsoft s DirectX API. Direct3D is only available for Microsoft s various Windows operating systems (Windows 95 and above) and is the base for the graphics API on the Xbox and Xbox 360 console systems. Direct3D is used to render… …
122DirectSound — is a software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system. DirectSound provides a low latency interface to the sound card driver and can handle the mixing and recording of multiple audio streams. Besides providing… …
123Comparison of OpenGL and Direct3D — Direct3D and OpenGL are competing application programming interfaces (APIs) which can be used in applications to render 2D and 3D computer graphics, taking advantage of hardware acceleration when available. Modern graphics processing unit (GPUs)… …
124CDC Cyber — The CDC Cyber range of mainframe class supercomputers were the primary products of Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s. In their day, they were the computer architecture of choice for scientific and mathematically intensive… …
125Scalable Link Interface — For other uses, see SLI (disambiguation). Scalable Link Interface Manufacturer NVIDIA Predecessor Scan Line Interleave …
126Beamforming — is a signal processing technique used in sensor arrays for directional signal transmission or reception. This spatial selectivity is achieved by using adaptive or fixed receive/transmit beampattern. The improvement compared with an… …
127Mechanical filter — Figure 1. A mechanical filter made by the Kokusai Electric Company intended for selecting the narrow 2 kHz bandwidth signals in SSB radio receivers. It operates at 455 kHz, a common IF for these receivers, and is dimensioned 45×15×15 mm ( …
128Software tools for molecular microscopy — There are a large number of software tools or software applications that have been specifically developed for the field sometimes referred to as molecular microscopy or cryo electron microscopy or cryoEM. Several special issues of the Journal of… …
