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Energy / Power measurement wish list

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:09:21 -0400

I got such a good response from my previous post, that I decided to pose another question to my select and invisible audience.

If you could come up with a wish list, what power related…

A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 3

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:07:27 -0400

A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 3:

This is the third of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intended to clearly…

Is DOS the ideal parallel environment - Part II

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:05:22 -0400

Is DOS the ideal parallel environment - Part II: Part 1 of this article described how the original design of Windows User Mode was highly advanced and suitable for the parallel world, but in time the concepts and goals behind this design were…

A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 2

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:03:42 -0400

A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 2:

This is the second of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I attempted to clearly…

IDF Concurrency panel follow up -- performance fundamentals matter

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:03:42 -0400

IDF Concurrency panel follow up -- performance fundamentals matter:

Our IDF panel (officially, the Academic Community Multi-core Programming Roundable) brought some lively points of view, and at least one recurrent theme. First, the points of view:

Dan Garcia gave…

Vertical Applications of a SOA "soft appliance"

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:03:35 -0400

Vertical Applications of a SOA "soft appliance": So far I have been posting the last week or so about how to apply a SOA “soft appliance” to overall scenarios like Federated SOA, SaaS, and Mainframe deployments. XML performance…

A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:03:34 -0400

A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange:

This is the first of a four-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intend to clearly articulate…

Intel® Summary Statistics Library: how to detect outliers in datasets?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Intel® Summary Statistics Library: how to detect outliers in datasets?:

Earlier I computed various statistical estimates like mean or variance-covariance matrix using Intel® Summary Statistics Library. In those cases I knew for sure that my datasets did not…

Parallelism for paranoids or what?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:59:29 -0400

Parallelism for paranoids or what?: I am attending the annual (Intel) PRC Multi-Core Forum held at Xiamen. Among the overwhelming information I received from the experience and BKM sharing between faculty, one interesting point does…

Mainframe SOA

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:56:53 -0400

Mainframe SOA: In many conversations I participate in regarding Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), part of the conversion oftens leads to “….how best can I incorporate my mainframe in the SOA…

Parallelized with Fear?

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:29:22 -0400

Parallelized with Fear?: I just wanted to add a few things to what I said during the 26 AUG 08 Parallel Programming Talk show. Watching the webcast of Justin Rattner’s IDF keynote, I liked the “mission” statement that…

Parallel Programming News - Intel Parallel Studio Announced

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:29:16 -0400

Parallel Programming News - Intel Parallel Studio Announced:

Clay Breshears and I just finished up this weeks installment of our Parallel Programming Blog Talk Radio show. Today’s we focused on the big news from last weeks Intel Developer Forum in…

Is DOS the ideal parallel environment - Part I

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:27:35 -0400

Is DOS the ideal parallel environment - Part I:

Previous article described the evolution of computer languages from early days Assembly to Object Oriented languages favored today. The emphasis was that early languages had clear execution…

The latest Xeon and OpenSolaris - in 5 minutes

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:53:23 -0400

The latest Xeon and OpenSolaris - in 5 minutes: In my most recent 5-minute OpenSolaris video, the cats are out of the bag, the gloves are off, and the latest Xeon is on its way. Codenamed “Dunnington”, it will actually appear as the “Xeon 7400…

Flaws of Object Oriented Modeling

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:52:53 -0400

Flaws of Object Oriented Modeling: At the beginning of the computer era the system designers came from the world of hardware and it is noticeable. In hardware there are many working elements that can operate in parallel and most…

Intel® Summary Statistics Library: how to process data in chunks?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:52:48 -0400

Intel® Summary Statistics Library: how to process data in chunks?:

In my previous post I considered computation of statistical estimates for in-memory datasets using tools available in Intel® Summary Statistics Library. New days bring new problems, and…

Integrating SaaS to the Enterprise with SOA

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:32 -0400

Integrating SaaS to the Enterprise with SOA: Integrating the hot, new SaaS application into a company can often be a challenging undertaking. The SaaS application was acquired for a pressing departmental need, yet manually re-inputting and…

GCDC’08: good-bye and see ya at GCDC 2009!

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:43:07 -0400

GCDC’08: good-bye and see ya at GCDC 2009!: Man, we had a lot of fun during GCDC 2008. And some hours of work. From Sunday till Wednesday we created 12 video clips combined with 12 blog postings. Additionally we blogged 12 informative…

Let's NOT Teach Parallel Programming

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:42:39 -0400

Let's NOT Teach Parallel Programming: When talking to university and college professors about adding parallel programming into their curriculum as early as possible, the typical response is to agree that this should be done. However, we…

Announcing the Havok Physics Innovation Contest

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:40:26 -0400

Announcing the Havok Physics Innovation Contest:

When Intel acquired Havok in 2007 I moved to Ireland to help with the transition. While Havok operates independently, there are a couple things we have been working on together that PC…