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 news [...]

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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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If you spend a lot of time reading articles and research papers that you get in PDF form, then you might be interested in the latest app from the folks who brought you BibDesk. If you already use BibDesk, then you certainly want to take a look.

Even though we keep our research papers stored on [...]

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This is really cool: Fran Allen, a founder of the field of program optimization and compiler analysis, will be the first woman to receive the Turing Award. More info, including a description of her accomplishments, is at the ACM press release.

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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. 16th [...]

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Over at macresearch.org, they’ve posted a nice review of BibDesk. One quote: “If you use Latex search no more, this is a killer app.” Kudos to Adam and Christiaan.

I see an increasing number of Macs at research meetings I go to, and I usually can’t help but peek on their dock to look for that [...]

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Coverity, the company formed by the people behind the Stanford MC Checker, has started posting regular reports from their analysis tools on prominent open-source projects at scan.coverity.com.

I found out about this through an email from the Coverity CTO on the GCC mailing list, and it seems to have been received with some moderate enthusiasm. I [...]

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Herb Sutter, software architect at Microsoft, chair of the ISO C/C++ committee, and blogger, gave a talk this Monday about the impending concurrency revolution and his project, Concur, an extension to C style languages to support usable concurrent programming. I enjoyed his talk in spite of the job-fair atmosphere (it was also a Microsoft recruiting [...]

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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 sure [...]

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Today, a group of graduating PhD students in our department met up to brief each other on what’s new and hot in their respective fields, to remind each other of what’s going on outside their respective specialties. The idea is that when interviewing for jobs, you have to hold up your end of a conversation [...]

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