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Entries from March 2009

Intel: Software Developers Need to Think “Parallel”

March 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Intel says parallel software is more important for many-core CPUs like “Larrabee”
Multi-core processors have been in the consumer market for several years now. However, despite having access to CPUs with two, three, four, and more cores, there are still relatively few applications available that can take advantage of multiple cores. Intel is hoping to change […]

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Wolfram Alpha: The Next “Google” killer or Skynet in the making?

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

A new paradigm for using web applications has emerged. The landing page looks similar to Google, with a simple layout and that familiar search box. But what lies beneath this new search engine is something powerful and breath-taking. Meet Wolfram Alpha - Brings search engines to a whole new level. The algorithm sounds extremely smart […]

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Mario Behling @ NUS and an idea.

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

I took some time out of my busy schedule to attend a talk by Mario Behling. The talk was organized by the people from LinuxNus. A short intro of Mario taken from the LinuxNus website:
Mario Behling is a FOSS advocate known in the international (Free and Open Source Software) FOSS community through his work for […]

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