Gadzooked!

This is interesting:

Here’s one computer that looks like it belongs on the bridge of a starship: the SiCortex SC5832. It’s this year’s winner of the soon-to-be-coveted Dev Connection “Sexiest in show” award for SC07.

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Dave sent us a link to this:

A computer is a tool and a program is a thing, said Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT during the SC07 keynote on Tuesday. The audience was a little skeptical. “If programs are things,” pointed out one attendee, “then bugs are consequential.” Do we need to fear being outwitted, outsmarted, and outplayed by self-fabricated machines we helped create?

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John told us about:

“We live in interesting times.” That was the message from Tim Mattson, a Principal Engineer at Intel during a tutorial Monday on advanced OpenMP programming. Other presenters at SC07 agreed: software development is much more difficult than it used to be, and it’s only going to get worse.

The entire post can be seen here.

Just came across this:

As promised, Google released the Android SDK for gPhone-like devices today. Programmers can use it to immediately begin development of native programs that will run on Open Handset Alliance hardware. In a surprise move, however, the native programming interface is Java.

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Came across this today:

Apple Mac -VS- PCs ads
A collection of the recent Apple Mac -VS- PCs ads - all together - clever marketing and quite funny
Screened in order;
Wall Street Journal, Network, iLife, Better, Restarting, Viruses, Work, Touché, Out of the Box, Trust Mac, Angel/Devil, Accident, Self Pity, Better Results, Counsellor

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This is an interesting post:

Quentin Stout and Christiane Jablonowski from the University of Michigan gave a nice introduction to parallel computing on Sunday. They covered everything from architecture to APIs to the politics of sharing a common compute resource.
Hardware designs for parallel computing are as diverse as the problems they are asked to solve. One of the common categorizations […]

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Came across this today:

Sunday dawned bright and cold for Day One of the SuperComputing 2007 conference. During a short bus ride to the convention center I found myself wedged in the last seat next to Pikachu. It turns out Pikachu is a college student competing in a performance challenge tomorrow at SC07. The students write the software, and hardware vendors (Apple in this case) provide the hardware. Costumes are optional.

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Found this:

Last night I arrived in Reno Nevada for the SC07 conference, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. I’ve signed up for a number of tutorials and papers so I’ll have a lot more to say about it over the next week. Meanwhile after I settled in I enjoyed a concert […]

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Heather told us about:

Gmail has nearly doubled the amount of email that you can store on a free account. How does this compare to what you have now?

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Larry sends us:

XAware has been around as a commercial product for a few years. According to a company spokesman, they made the decision to go open source because potential customers want to test-drive products before they put them into production. Open source will allow developers to easily download and use XAware. Some will be happy to use the free version, and some will see the value in paying for support/services.

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