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The 1-Second Linux Boot 156

Posted by timothy on Friday February 26, 2010 @10:53PM from the unexamined-boot-is-not-worth-booting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Less than one second Linux boot! This video shows an OMAP3530 capturing video data from a camera and rendering it to an LCD display — the video appears on the LCD display in less than a second from reset."

Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability 248

Posted by timothy on Friday February 26, 2010 @08:56PM from the only-need-half-as-many dept.

PCM2 writes "ABC News is reporting that the US Secret Service is in dire need of server upgrades. 'Currently, 42 mission-oriented applications run on a 1980s IBM mainframe with a 68 percent performance reliability rating,' says one leaked memo. That finding was the result of an NSA study commissioned by the Secret Service to evaluate the severity of their computer problems. Curiously, upgrades to the Service's computers are being championed by Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who says he's had 'concern for a while' about the issue."

After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? 293

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 21, 2010 @09:31AM from the nice-hot-bath dept.

Niris writes "I'm currently taking a course called Advanced Java Programming, which is using the text book Absolute Java, 4th edition, by Walter Savitch. As I work at night as a security guard in the middle of nowhere, I've had enough time to read through the entire course part of the book, finish all eleven chapter quizzes, and do all of the assignments within a month, so all that's left is a group assignment that won't be ready until late April. I'm trying to figure out what else to read that's Java related aside from the usual 'This is how to create a tree. This is recursion. This is how to implement an interface and make an anonymous object,' and wanted to see what Slashdotters have to suggest. So far I'm looking at reading Beginning Algorithms, by Simon Harris and James Ross."

An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @03:06PM from the abstraction-gains-a-layer dept.

Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."

Submission + - Netflix Prize Winners Announced (cnn.com)

Submitted by

karlnyberg

on Monday September 21, 2009 @01:29PM

karlnyberg writes: "And the million dollars goes to... Lots of people. Not surprisingly, teams of former winners.

Stay tuned for the sequel! Netflix Prize II. Different rules. Different format. Another $1M!"

Submission + - NetflixPrize enters 2007 Progress Prize Phase (netflixprize.com)

Submitted by

karlnyberg

on Sunday September 02, 2007 @07:45AM

karlnyberg writes: "In accordance with the competition rules, team leaders for the NetflixPrize competition received the following email yesterday:

As of September 2, 2007 00:00:00 UTC, the Netflix Prize competition entered the "last call" period for the 2007 Progress Prize. In accord with the Rules, your team has thirty (30) days, until October 2, 2007 00:00:00 UTC, to make submissions that will be considered for this Prize. Good luck and thank you for participating!

This is ONLY for the $50,000 prize for the first year of operation of the competition, not for the $1,000,000 prize."

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