Intel says to prepare for 'thousands of cores'
Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.
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Java+WiiMote+Lego Mindstorms=WiiBot!
I'm on summer vacation right now, but there's always a little room for some Java programming, as long as there's a twist to it. Some time ago I bought... more »
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Impressive home networks
Most of us have at least one computer at home, some may even have a few. And then there are the ones that almost run their own data center at home,... more »
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Diminishing returns from virtualization will affect larger core count server sales
The key to the Sherlock Holmes mystery, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was this: Why the dog didn't bark? Why hasn't the so-called multicore crisis... more »
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Time for Genetic Programming?
The announcement of a petaflop computer has resurrected my dream of computers that write their own software and come up with their own ideas. That... more »
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New Adventures In Real-Time : An Interview With Greg Bollella
The Java Real Time Specification is bringing Java to new places, including the unsuspecting PLC market. This year at JavaONE, Greg Bollella introduced... more »
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RAM is the new disk...
Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the... more »
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Red Hat and Amazon Put JBoss In the Amazone's Clouds infrastructure
Red Hat has inked a SaaS partnership with Amazon.com to offer JBoss middleware as a hosted service. Red Hat disclosed that JBoss Enterprise... more »
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I love you Mr AMD Opteron Dual Core!
Here’s one simple reason why you can never EVER forget why site performance is so important.
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An Evolutionary Path for High Performance Heterogeneous Multicore Programming
The multicore era has opened the Pandora box of parallel programming environments. Closing it won't be easy.
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Get kids programming with Wowwee bots!
Getting children into science and technology is one of the big challenges facing UK education today. Getting kids into programming is even harder. Or... more »
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Slashdot: Best Chair For Desktop Coding?
Has there been any great progress in the state of the art (of sitting) since the last time readers sought recommendations for back-friendly chairs a... more »
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Building a Linux Box for $150
Wired how-to. Put together a decent linux box for less than $200.
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Kernal vs. Kernel in GridGain :)
Very few people actually know from where the word “Kernal” came about. Here’s a good overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernal. When I was... more »
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Functional Languages on Quad-Core
In an earlier series of articles ending with Multi-Core Ant Colony Optimization for TSP in Erlang I evaluated the performance of the Standard ML,... more »
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Brian the Build Bunny
Brian is a Nabaztag smart rabbit. He reads out details of check-ins and builds. If a build has failed then his ears go down to show how sad he... more »
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How to create a (magnetic) tangible user interface
The tangible user interface uses Phidgets magnet sensors to sensors when a ‘friend pass’ is placed onto the screen. This then triggers one of three... more »
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How to make a Physical Gmail Notifier
I was given a lovely glowing cube by the generous people at Linden Labs as a freebie at a job fair yesterday, and I decided that it was far too... more »
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The coolest thing I saw at JavaOne 2008 was...
...the Livescribe Smartpen, which comes with a Java-based development kit. The pen is cool: it's a pen with ink, but it also has a tiny camera in... more »
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NVIDIA is shaking up the parallel programming world
Anyone who’s ever taken a course in computer programming knows how difficult it is to get a computer to do what you want it to. This is especially... more »
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JavaOne session on high resolution monitors
I have the honor to be joined by Mike Swingler (Swing / AWT lead for Apple VM) and to present an evening session on high resolution monitors at this... more »
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Should All Developers Have Manycore CPUs?
If nothing else, dual-core CPUs protect you from badly written software; if a crashed program consumes all possible CPU time, all it can get is 50% of... more »
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Microsoft patent reveals wearable mouse design
Microsoft came up with a very cool “wearable pointing device” that looks somewhat like a hybrid between the gloves in Minority Report and the Nintendo... more »
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Starting with Sun SPOT using NetBeans 6.1
If you do not have a Sun SPOT (Figure 1), do not be bored, you can still have a lot of fun! In this entry, I gonna explain how to start programming... more »
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