I’ve always liked the programming-languages community website Lambda the Ultimate, and recently I went looking for something similar for the High-Performance Computing community. I didn’t find exactly that*, but I did find a few great resources for news about HPC and computing research policy: HPCWire is a well-known news source for HPC. It has daily [...]

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The UT-Austin TRIPS project will unveil their processor next Monday, and I take a look at what it looks like.

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For those few readers who are interested in High Performance Computing and might be going to this year’s Supercomputing conference in Tampa, my advisor Allan Snavely and Jeremy Kepner from Lincoln Labs are putting on a BOF with an intriguing subject: “Is 99% Utilization of a Supercomputer a Good Thing?” It’ll be on Thursday Nov. [...]

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A feature I really miss from having a DVR is the ’8 seconds back’ button, to catch a play or repeat something funny. Recently I’ve been listening to recorded interviews we’ve been doing of HPC developers, and updating my notes (in VoodooPad using them. Since people mumble and use jargon I don’t always understand, I [...]

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From BLDGBLOG, some pictures and romantic musings about everyone’s favorite kind of computer – big, expensive, finicky and shared: the Supercomputer. Be sure to click through to see the picture of the MareNostrum system filling a glass box in a chapel in Barcelona. There are more great photos on photographer Simon Norfolk’s site. I wish [...]

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I’ve just put up the website for my current project (to be part of my Ph.D. dissertation work): LENS, a framework for program information manipulation that presents a uniform interface to selective user and automated queries about many types of program metrics, including success and diagnostic information about compiler optimizations and code generation. I’m not [...]

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I completely missed this year’s State of the Union address, but was pleased to see this quote from the speech: First, I propose to double the federal commitment to the most critical basic research programs in the physical sciences over the next 10 years. This funding will support the work of America’s most creative minds [...]

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The technical program for PLDI 2006 is out now – there are certainly a lot of interesting papers in there. I’m looking through them now and will probably comment on a few of the ones I think are cool in another post. PLDI is traditionally a very competitive conference with an emphasis on experimental results, [...]

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