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Voices of VideoWatts Up With Your Encoder? Akamai & Cires21 Benchmark VPUs vs. GPUsEnergy efficiency is quickly becoming the new battleground in video processing infrastructure, and a groundbreaking benchmark study has revealed just how dramatic the differences can be between competing technologies. In this eye-opening conversation, Chris Milstead from Akamai and Dennis Mungai from Cires21 share findings from their joint research comparing Video Processing Units (VPUs) to traditional GPUs for encoding workloads.The benchmark shows that VPUs deliver 4.7X better energy efficiency than GPUs for video encoding, while maintaining equivalent quality.Highlights from...
2025-09-2544 min
The Future Positive Podcast#1: Chris Downing (Sage) - The Practice Of Now Report 2020Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This episode Kirsty & Phil talk to Chris Downing, about the Sage Practice Of Now Report 2020. Chris is the Director of Product Marketing for Accountants & Bookkeepers at Sage as well as a former accountant in practice - having worked for over 19 years for Milsted Langdon. He's also a previous judge for the accounting excellence awards and has advised the institute on Making Tax Digital
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (F...
2021-02-1028 min
AccountingWEBCoping with the never-ending treadmill of workOn this AccountingWEB podcast we'll find out how accountants have coped with the sudden change in client demand over the last several months.
Accountants have contended with the rush of government guidance already this year, and now with the prospect of self assessment looming again and the second lockdown, we’re seeing a gloomy outlook in the profession.
This podcast will discover how accountants have managed clients, the high level of demand and the associated pressures of Covid workload.
To do this, host Richard Hattersley is joined by Sage’s Chris Downing: an accountant at heart with almost 20 years of experie...
2020-11-0932 min