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Comment Re:So they are dropping another tech (Score 1) 451

by icklemichael on Thursday October 21, 2010 @02:43PM (#33977474) Attached to: Apple Deprecates Their JVM

Sun MicroSystems and now Oracle develops JVMs for all the OSs EXCEPT Apple.

$ java -version java version "1.5.0" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build pap32devifx-20090327 (SR9-SSU )) IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 AIX ppc-32 j9vmap3223-20081129 (JIT enabled) J9VM - 20081126_26240_bHdSMr JIT - 20081112_1511ifx1_r8 GC - 200811_07) JCL - 20090327

AMD Banks On Flood of Stream Apps 124

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 13, 2008 @09:22PM from the streams-come-with-banks-anyhow dept.

Slatterz writes "Closely integrating GPU and CPU systems was one of the motivations for AMD's $5.4bn acquisition of ATI in 2006. Now AMD is looking to expand its Stream project, which uses graphics chip processing cores to perform computing tasks normally sent to the CPU, a process known as General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU). By leveraging thousands of processing cores on a graphics card for general computing calculations, tasks such as scientific simulations or geographic modelling, which are traditionally the realm of supercomputers, can be performed on smaller, more affordable systems. AMD will release a new driver for its Radeon series on 10 December which will extend Stream capabilities to consumer cards." Reader Vigile adds: "While third-party consumer applications from CyberLink and ArcSoft are due in Q1 2009, in early December AMD will release a new Catalyst driver that opens up stream computing on all 4000-series parts and a new Avivo Video Converter application that promises to drastically increase transcoding speeds. AMD also has partnered with Aprius to build 8-GPU stream computing servers to compete with NVIDIA's Tesla brand."

Comment Re:Depends on the size of a book. (Score 1) 578

by icklemichael on Thursday April 03, 2008 @02:16PM (#22954258) Attached to: How many books have you read in the last year?

I tend to read more Fantasy than Scifi, but:

Richard Morgan - Probably the best match to the above - all good.
Iain M Banks - I imagine you have already read everything by him. :)
Ken Macleod - More recent is better
Charles Stross - I have not met a single person who doesn't love the Atrocity Archives

Programming Erlang 314

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @02:43PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

gnalre writes "Every day it seems there is a new publication of a book on perl/python/ruby. Some languages however do not seem to get that sort of attention. One of those under-represented languages is Erlang, however for the first time in 10 years a new Erlang book has been published. As someone who had a brief flirtation with Erlang long ago, I was interested to see how the language had evolved in the intervening decade. I was also curious to re-evaluate Erlang to see what solutions it offered to the present day issues of writing reliable distributed applications." Read on for the rest of Tony's review.

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