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Runtime asserts are not free
When writing software in C and C++, it is common to add C asserts to check that some conditions are satisfied at runtime. Often…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pre-Businesses
Considering non-monetizable pre-businesses whose 'cool clock' may be ticking. Can you guess what social network that ZDNet is talking about? A good piece on the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Differentiated Instruction
As I was grading a movie summary from my Fundamentals of Programming class, yesterday, I noticed the varying insights that the students had to the Charles Babbage...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 15
March 17 Meeting: The Election Assistance Commission will hold a meeting. One of the agenda items concerns voter registration databases., 11 a.m., 1225 New York...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Net-Map
From Visualcomplexity, something called Net-Map which allows users to manipulate the relationship of players and decisions. What is interesting here is that the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lower Inventories
Lower inventories in retail are likely to cause more out-of-stocks. Yet it will also cause retailers to be more creative in understanding the problem in general...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intuit on Small Business Innovation
Steve King outlines the Intuit Future of Small Business report and points to a just released research brief on innovation in small business. If you run one or"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Culinary Innovation Center
Interesting work by Wegmans. Has some connections to other innovation center work. There is lots of interest in North America about innovative food preparation...
From insideHPC
More on scientific clouds from Dan
As I mentioned last week, I recently did an article for HPCwire with a Q&A with Dan Reed from Microsoft about his CCF team and the intersection of clouds and HPC...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Gardening and research
I love gardening. I love research. These activities are analogous: Gardening Research Biodiversity minimizes the impact of diseases and pests. A multidisciplinary...
From insideHPC
An actual HPC blog conversation, more on the OpenMP debate with
Now, this is the sort of thing that happens in other communities all the time (the Mac community for example, where I used to spend some free time reading — now...
From insideHPC
Penguin launches new workgroup-sized
Last week Penguin Computing announced they had launched two new workgroup-size clusters. First up, a 16 TFLOPS Tesla-based system Penguin is now offering an Altus...
From insideHPC
Sun gears up to try utility cloud again using somebody else
Timothy Prickett Morgan reported at Channel Register on Friday that Sun is evidently gearing up to make a third run at selling cloud computing cycles to customers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Phone GPS
Have been experimenting with a number of walk tracking methods on my IPhone. There are many pedometer style applications, which work fine but need calibration....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Borders Backing from E-Commerce
In StorefrontBacktalk: Borders was originally trying to cleverly integrate online and bricks. Though that did not draw me there. Now they are pulling back, likely...
From insideHPC
SDSC Hosts Two Workshops on Bridging HPC and
The San Diego Supercomputer Center [SDSC] has announced that it will host two, 2-Day workshops designed to help begin to bridge the gap between high performance...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Symposium on
Ed Lazowska and Peter Lee on November 4 proposed a brainstorming exercise to identify about a dozen game-changing advances in computing research over the past 20...
From insideHPC
Are you an HPC vendor with an academic
The response to the couple of recent posts I’ve done about academic freebies and specials has been great. So I thought I would gather them up and list them in an...
From Wild WebMink