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Moblin at OSCON

By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (21 posts) on July 24, 2008 at 9:59 am
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I gave a keynote at OSCON yesterday. Always fun - especially if you have about 48 hours of warning that you'll be the speaker... Imad, my boss, was called out of town on short notice and asked me to take over from him. Which I did quite happily as I love giving presentations (weird, I [...]

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Category: Atom, Open Source

tbb::concurrent_vector: secrets of memory organization

By Anton Malakhov (Intel) (1 posts) on July 24, 2008 at 3:51 am
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This blog entry is intended to help you better understand the way concurrent vector works with the memory and how to use it wisely for your program to work faster or consume less memory. The concurrency comes with the price Let’s open Threading Building Blocks (TBB) reference manual at point 4.3.”Fragmentation”: “Unlike a std::vector, a concurrent_vector never moves [...]

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Category: Multicore, Open Source, Threading Building Blocks

Encumbered by history? Do something wonderful for programming education!

By Hua You (Intel) (2 posts) on July 23, 2008 at 10:29 pm
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In a recent faculty workshop held at Izmir, Turkey, an interesting topic caused debate amongst the attendees during discussion . And I believe it should not be concerned only by Turkish faculty. That is, where is the proper point to start teaching concurrent/parallel programming in institutes. Supporters on one side would start teaching students concurrent/parallel programming as [...]

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Category: Multicore, University Curriculum

Intel® AMT SCS 5.0: standalone database installation

By Leonid Landsman (Intel) (3 posts) on July 23, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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Hello. In this post I want to present the changes in DB creation flow. In the previous version of SCS the database was created during installation process. It was required that user, which runs the SCS installer, should be SQL administrator. This requirement is very restricting. A standard policy in many companies follows the privileges separation principle: [...]

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Category: Manageability

C# 3.0 Automatically Implemented Properties

By Doug Holland (Intel) (78 posts) on July 23, 2008 at 8:54 pm
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The C# 3.0 language specification contains several new enhancements to the language that I'll detail here over the next few weeks. Personally the one enhancement to the language that I find myself using almost every day is the new support for automatically implemented properties. Using automatically implemented properties the following example: /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the [...]

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Category: Software Engineering

OSCON notes and sneak peek at Moblin 2.0

By Jeff Moriarty (Intel) (19 posts) on July 23, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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OSCON has been an interesting run for me today, and I think my brain is full.  My focus has been following Moblin and mobile device development, and it has been a mixed bag.  The Moblin Camp yesterday was sadly canceled, but there was lots of interesting things to be found in the sessions and on [...]

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Category: Atom, Mobility, Open Source

I'm speaking tomorrow at OSCON

By David Stewart (Intel) (84 posts) on July 23, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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( I know it's a little late, but I took a little mental vacation here for a while, so sue me! ) If you happen to be at OSCON in Portland, OR this week, I would invite you to come by and introduce yourself at my talk. It's at 10:45 - 11:30 in room [...]

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Category: Multicore, Open Source, Virtualization

Come see Intel Software Network in person!

By Gina Bovara (Intel) (11 posts) on July 22, 2008 at 3:05 pm
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What are you doing this fall? Come out to meet your favorite Intel Software Network personalities (myself included!) at some of the upcoming conferences we will be participating in.  We'd love to hear about how you use our Intel Software Network website & services - bring your ideas and comments to share with us! SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles, CA) - August [...]

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Category: Events, Gaming, Graphics

"Vanilla is the Absence of Chocolate" and Other Lies My Father Told Me

By Clay Breshears (Intel) (81 posts) on July 22, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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Well, my father didn't state it that eloquently, but he couldn't understand why I prefered vanilla to chocolate milkshakes when I was growing up. Now, I don't think he would understand why I might tell someone to use a sub-optimal algorithm in their application to get better performance.

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Category: Multicore, Software Engineering, University Curriculum

TechCrunch making $200 web tablet? Hmmmm...

By Jeff Moriarty (Intel) (19 posts) on July 22, 2008 at 10:20 am
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Yesterday TechCrunch announced they are building their own $200 web tablet, and asked for help doing it. The planned stack so far is to run BSD or Linux, with the Gnome desktop. We will probably take the Gnome Onscreen Keyboard project and adapt that as the primary input device ... there will be Firefox, running in [...]

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Category: Atom, Mobility, Open Source
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