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Design Feature Articles
The Need to Rewrite Established Algorithms
Parallel architectures, like other hardware advances before them, require us to rewrite algorithms and data structures — especially the old standbys that have served us well
Rebuilding the Tower of Hanoi
Sometimes seemingly serial computations may be coded with parallel algorithms if you can figure out how to present the final results in the proper order.
Windows 8 and Metro: The World Without Browser Plug-ins
Abandoning plug-ins will make browsers better and coding easier
Welcome to the Parallel Jungle!
Herb Sutter dives into the repercussions of parallel's reach from mobile devices, to the desktop, to clusters, and — at the highest level of granularity — to the cloud. This welter of different parallel implementations presents significant challenges for programming. The free lunch of sequential programming is well and truly over.
Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers Begin Their Ascent
As the cloud is quickly demonstrating, small, seemingly underpowered servers are quite enough for most development tasks. Buying one of these low-cost, low-power units makes clear how much developer-friendlier they are than datacenter solutions
Design News
Hydra 4 Sharpens Its Teeth, Breathes New Fire
Major new release for .NET/Delphi cross-platform application framework
Nvidia Speeds GPU Computations For Geophysicists
Automated performance for CUDA C/C++/Fortran application acceleration with extra signal processing
Capacitive Coupling Demo
Source Code Analysis: Spellchecker-Style
Klocwork 9.5 is on-the-fly source code analysis
FuseSource Integrates Integration Reserves
Online subscription center for enterprise developers and architects
Oracle Bakes NetBeans IDE 7.1 For Better UIs
First IDE to support latest Java specs and JavaFX 2.0 and JDK7
Cutting Code While Controlling Cost, Capacity, and Consumption
Jinspired releases JXInsight/OpenCore 6.3 for application performance management
IBM Five in Five
IBM's "5 in 5" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live, and interact during the next five years
Unifying Developers and Tools In ALM Nirvana
Interoperability functions ramped up for Borland StarTeam 12.0 from Micro Focus
Real Software Pours Cocoa For Hot Graphics
Real Studio 2011 release 4 has more than 200 improvements
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March 24-28, San Jose, CA. CGO '12. 10th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization.
March 25-30, Potsdam, Germany. AOSD '12. Aspect-oriented Software Development.
March 26-29, Reston, VA. EclipseCon 2012
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Best of the Web
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
Compiling the JavaScript Engines
With growing demand for out-of-browser JavaScript (e.g., server JavaScript), a good knowledge of JavaScript engines is becoming more important.
