Sip from the Firehose

I previously blogged about Microsoft and Intel funding parallel computing research at University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).  Now several technology companies (Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, NVIDIA, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Intel) are funding parallel computing research at Stanford University’s Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory (PPL).  Kunle Olukotun is the […]

Donald Knuth, author of the all-time best Computer Science book series (in my opinion), "The Art of Computer Programming", was recently interviewed by Andrew Binstock for informIT.com.  The interview is very indepth covering programming, methods, tools, history, architecture, and more.  I’ve listed a few of the interview highlights that caught my eye.
On unit testing: "the idea […]

 This week, Microsoft and Intel announced that they have committed $20 million for parallel computing research at University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Andrew Chien (Intel Research) in his blog post said "I can’t help but feel the excitement and optimism that accompanies the launching of a […]