Archive for the ‘Links’ Category

git-subtree

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

There’s an interesting discussion about Avery Pennarun’s git-subtree and Git’s submodule concept on the git mailing list
[1, 2].

GeForce GTX 480 and 470

Saturday, March 27th, 2010
  • Tom’s Hardware reports comprehensive benchmarks of the new NVIDIA cards. [1]

Processing.js

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Processing.js is a JavaScript port of Processing. See the article Comparing native Processing & Processing.js for a comparison to native Processing.

Whatever Happened To Programming?

Sunday, March 7th, 2010
  • Whatever Happened To Programming? [1]

Lean programming (the fridge vs the radiator)

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Lean programming (the fridge vs the radiator) by Jason Yip [1]


The Ignite presentation method

Sunday, March 7th, 2010
  • The Ignite presentation method [1]
  • Ignite@O’Reilly [1]

Multi-Voting

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
  • Perpetual multivote for pull scheduling [1]
  • Multi-Voting described at the Continuous Improvement Resources at Arizona State University [1, 2]

Kanban for Software Engineering

Saturday, November 28th, 2009
  • The Limited WIP Society is intended to be the home of kanban for software development community. [1]

PySide

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
  • PySide provides LGPL Qt Python bindings. [1]

LSB Infrastructure Project, ABI compliance checker

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
  • LSB Infrastructure Project [1]
  • ABI compliance checker [1]

CUDA, Clean Code Developer

Saturday, August 15th, 2009
  • Rob Farber explains CUDA in a multi-part article at Dr. Dobb’s [1].
  • Become a Clean Code Developer [1].

Safer Software, GFS II

Friday, August 14th, 2009
  • Researchers at NICTA proved correctness of a kernel [1].
  • Google is developing a successor of the Google File System [1, 2].

eigenfactor.org

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

eigenfactor.org is a free source to search for influential journals in a specific research field. It provides lists ranked by influence based on citation analysis, similar to but different in detail from ISI’s impact factor (see Impact Factor and Citation Index on Wikipedia).

Here are direct links to some specific areas:
COMPUTER IMAGING,
MEDICAL IMAGING,
COMPUTER SCIENCE,
FLUID MECHANICS,
MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY,
NEUROSCIENCE.

Amdahl’s Law in the Multicore Era

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

This Google tech talk presentation by Mark D. Hill is very worthwhile to watch. Based on a few fundamental assumptions, Hill develops an extended version of Amdahl’s Laws and discusses whether processor designers should focus on improving the performance of single cores or on increasing the number of cores. He concludes that they should do both.

AMD’s Linux Support for their GPUs competitive?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Michael Larabel reports on Phoronix that AMD has greatly improved Linux support for their GPUs. Michael writes that drivers are now competitive with NVIDIA’s drivers.

Medical Apps on the iPhone

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Here are two things I found particularly interesting while watching the WWDC 2008 Keynote:

At 45:30 S. Mark Williams from Modality introduces a medical learning application for anatomy running on the iPhone 2.0 API.

At 48:30 Mark Cain from MIMvista introduces a combined PET-CT viewer running on the iPhone 2.0 API.

goosh

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Shell aficionados will immediately get hooked on goosh.org, the new (unofficial) interface to Google.

CT-Reconstruction With 8 GPUs

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Slashdot links to an article on DV Hardware that presents work by the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp on GPU-based CT-reconstruction. The researchers gave their “desktop supercomputer” the name FASTRA. Watching their official movie on YouTube, I recognized around 3:30 that they might be using our software Amira for visualizing their “test patient” Bob.