They use high-speed graphics cards to run a customized rendering platform called Gocad, built by software maker Paradigm.

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The camera is compatible with SD, SDHC, and SDXC memory cards including the new Ultra High Speed (UHS-I) cards.

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The faster speed is making PC cards that support the G standard a popular add-on device for notebooks, and Netgear is among those offering them.

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At this performance level, the write speed of SDHC UHS-I memory cards is more than three times as fast as SDHC Class 10 cards.

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Some users claim that the Class 4 SD cards (4 denotes the speed class rating) are more vulnerable to problems, and that upgrading to a Class 6 card fixed that.

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Other areas relating to Scotland include plans for a new high speed rail network and the scrapping of ID cards.

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Officials said they were prepared to work with unions to resolve any differences but stressed that ID cards would improve security at airports and speed up recruitment procedures.

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Then they started to use banks of graphics cards that could do the maths very quickly to speed up the rate at which blocks of work were completed.

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The Open Compute Project storage page also references Fusion-IO PCIe storage cards with up to 3.2 TB of storage capacity, which are used by Facebook to speed up overall storage system performance.

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