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In my job at Intel, I get to travel far and wide to meet with research groups working on parallel computing. And as travel, I am constantly struck by the differences between the state of HW and SW in parallel computing. On the HW front, we are sweating the details. We know there will be many cores. We know the cores in a single processor may be different. We know there will be a scalable on-die interconnect and that the caches will need to adapt to the workloads to maximize locality. I’ve spoken to countless HW architects working on many core systems and frankly, the “big picture” view seems pretty well locked up. But on the ...
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Cloud Computing & Related Trends in Software Development
Cloud computing, also known as grid computing or Platform as a Service (PaaS), is the next step in the concept of utility computing first envisioned by John McCarthy more than four decades ago. It is also the outcome of the natural evolution of the Web, and it heavily relies on the best practices, frameworks, and standards driving Web 2.0. Examples include Representational State Transfer (REST), dynamically typed/scripting languages, social networks, server-side scriptability, stateless client-server communication, and so on. What’s interesting is that many technologies first introduced in the mainframe era are now coming ...
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and has a specialized meaning. With Trusted Computing, the computer will consistently behave in expected ways, and those behaviors will be enforced by hardware and software. 1 . In practice, Trusted Computing uses cryptography to help enforce a selected behavior. The main functionality of TC is to allow someone else to verify that only authorized code runs on a system. This authorization covers initial booting and kernel and may also cover applications and various scripts. Just by itself TC does not protect against attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities introduced by programming bugs. TC is controversial because it is ...
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The Software as a Service (SaaS) acronym has confused many people as vendors have abused the term to hawk anything with a network capability. In order to understand it, it is useful to tease out the core aspects of it agnostic to any specific implementation or product. James Governor , Dion Hinchcliffe and I wrote about it in the book " Web 2.0 Architectures " along with other patterns. In this context, a pattern is the idea of capturing architectural design ideas as archetypal and reusable description. SaaS is in effect, a pattern specifically for the delivery of software ... Read More
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the Apple iPad is clearly a phenomenon. And with at least three competing thin neo-tablets -- the WebOS-based iSlate from HP and the Android tablet from Google, both promised for the fall, and the eeePad running Windows 7 from Asus, due early next year -- this clearly is the next generation in end-user computing. And while these are being sold initially as consumer devices, they are going to hit the office with the speed and at least the impact of the original iPhone. These devices are changing end-user expectations about computing, and that definitely includes the expectations of your CEO, CFO, and board of directors. The big ...
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I published previously an article regarding cloud computing and its basics. The following article is very descriptive for the new software trend and in my opinion well-written.So thanks to TEC(Technology Evaluation Center) and Jorge Garcia the author, i republish the following article in my blog.. link for article: A Tour of the Clouds A Tour of the Clouds Jorge Garcia - June 22, 2010 While the word Internet has been one of the most important computer terms in recent history, there has not been another term as attractive as “cloud computing.” Today, this term could be representing the next biggest trend in the ...
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The Business Software Alliance is taking the offensive, sending out millions of takedown notices the first six months of the year in a bid to combat piracy. Reason: if the BSA is to believed, about 41 percent of all software on personal computers is pirated – socking the industry with some $53 billion in losses. That’s the size of the proposed 2010 budget for the state of Illinois. The alliance, comprised of a host of software makers , ranging from Adobe to Quark, said in a new report Thursday that it has issued 2.4 million takedown notices worldwide to peer-to-peer networks the first half of the year – a 200 percent ...
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Local government officials' trepidation about cloud computing could be easing, as evidenced by a survey of IT decision-makers released Tuesday, April 20, that found 45 percent of local governments are using some form of cloud computing for applications or services. The survey, conducted during the first two weeks of April by the nonprofit Public Technology Institute (PTI), aggregated the opinions of 93 local government IT executives. The findings revealed that an additional 19 percent of local governments plan to implement some form of cloud computing within the next 12 months, while 35 percent don't intend to do so at ...
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I was at the Nvidia Quadro conference earlier this week and it is starting to look like 2011 is Nvidia's year to shine.
There is a massive movement towards GPU computing from scientific, business, entertainment, and even browsers are moving to GPU computing. Nvidia as a graphics pure play is increasingly referenced as the company driving this initiative because they aren't just working on building better graphics hardware but the software tools needed to drive the needed advancements that are now changing the industry.
So, let's explore this. GPU Computing at the Core The primary benefit to GPU ...
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Starting from the late-1970s and on into the early-1980s, when personal computers became available on a significant scale, a number of Tamil professionals around the world were enthused to undertake individual efforts to incorporate Tamil language in computers and in the then-fledgling Internet. By the late-1980s, the degree of incompatibility among these efforts had limited the value of their contributions to local contexts. The first initiative to identify the dimensions of disorder in Tamil computing was undertaken in 1997 at a conference in Singapore (since then called the First Tamil Internet Conference). The issues raised ...
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harnessing HPC without the complexity of traditional clusters. Rocks+ combines the popular ... performance computing (HPC) software stack that includes the ...
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Access to information and entertainment, credit and financial services, products from every corner of the world — even to your work — is greater than ever. Thanks to the internet, you can
play a friendly game with an opponent across the ocean; review and rate videos, songs, or clothes; get expert advice in an instant; or collaborate with far-flung co-workers in a "virtual" office. But the internet — and the anonymity it affords — also can give online scammers, hackers, and identity thieves access to your computer, personal information, finances, and more. With awareness as your safety net, ...
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Accessing Minitab from your own computer without buying it. ... of software must be installed on your computer before this page will operate correctly. In ...
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As a small business owner, you may or may not have heard the concept of Cloud
Computing. It�s dominated the landscape of technology discussions over much of
the past 12 months, but you may think it means nothing to you. Or you may find
the concept scary because you don�t know what it means. I was the same way � I
had heard of the concept a few months ago and was clueless. I figured it was
something I should know about but didn�t so I just try to avoided it for awhile. I finally decided to take a different route � discover what it was and what it
meant to me as a project manager, consultant, and small business ...
In the past, professional services were usually marketed through
a network of personal relationships and word of mouth referrals. These
techniques still work, but not like they used to. To stay competitive,
professional service providers should challenge these four common marketing
myths. In the face of this severe, take-no-prisoners economic downturn, far too many
organizations are responding in knee-jerk reaction to the thought of holding all
but the smallest of meetings. Yet communicating is precisely what needs to be
done to make it through the recession and be ready to move once the economic
cloud lifts. ...
