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foolon Ads and articles from UnixWorld Magazine (1992-1996)

I bought one of Apple's first webservers, which used A/UX. It wasn't a really great Unix compared to some others available at the time.

foolon Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python?

Mirror: http://www.isc.org.nyud.net/wordpress/programming-languages-...

foolon KGPU - Augmenting Linux with the CUDA GPU

Suspicion confirmed:

"KGPU is a project of the Flux Research Group at the University of Utah. It is supported by NVIDIA through a graduate fellowship awarded to Weibin Sun."

http://code.google.com/p/kgpu/

foolon KGPU - Augmenting Linux with the CUDA GPU

The GPU code seems to be relatively isolated to memory operations in gpuops.cu. Not altogether sure but a quick review suggests such mapping is supported by OpenCL. So one could rewrite that module and the whole thing would work without CUDA. Of course, in terms of compilers it is going to be a while before users can move away from nvcc for nvidia graphics card support.

However, as with the parent I'd really like to see a generic OpenCL vectorization kernel module. Strong suspicion that this work was directly or indirectly underwritten by Nvidia so I guess someone (Intel?) needs to step up and fund similar academic projects.

foolon Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter

What I'd really like to see is some sort of "diffusion" system to let me know which link aggregation site found a URL first.

foolon AWS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2

I wonder if MSFT is subsidizing the cost? Either way it seems that market economics has now dictated that server operating systems are free as in beer.

foolon Nvidia introduces Tegra 3 five-core CPU

You're right, I was mistaken! I also found some more detail from this more technical explanation:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5072/nvidias-tegra-3-launched-...

foolon Nvidia introduces Tegra 3 five-core CPU

Quad Core and a GPU is a bit more accurate, but still an interesting system. I wonder when development boards will go on sale.

foolon A 'lorem ipsum' for images.

"Too big of an image!" just bugs me stylistically. Maybe: "The dimensions input are too large!"

foolon Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?

Academia, of course, gives you entirely different salaries. For an Assistant Prof. job at a good university you are looking at ~65,000 +/- 10k depending on location. This of course is supposed to be for 9 months, but good luck telling your tenure review committee you didn't do any work during the summers. Word is lucrative part-time consulting gigs can be had if you are enterprising. It looks as if you are at about 1/2 of what an industrial lab will pay. But then if you are in the academy, supposedly you care more about freedom than money.