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Re:Ads and articles from UnixWorld Magazine (1992-1996)
on Monday May 13, 2013 @08:15AM (#5698234)
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.
Re:Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python?
on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @07:45AM (#5292050)
Why doesn't `kill -9` always work?
Re:KGPU - Augmenting Linux with the CUDA GPU
on Sunday December 16, 2012 @06:10PM (#4929963)
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."
Re:KGPU - Augmenting Linux with the CUDA GPU
on Sunday December 16, 2012 @06:06PM (#4929954)
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.
Re:Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter
on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @04:26AM (#3670272)
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.
Re:AWS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2
on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:00AM (#3469815)
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.
Re:Nvidia introduces Tegra 3 five-core CPU
on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:29AM (#3214665)
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-...
Re:Nvidia introduces Tegra 3 five-core CPU
on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:20AM (#3214646)
Quad Core and a GPU is a bit more accurate, but still an interesting system. I wonder when development boards will go on sale.
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Re:A 'lorem ipsum' for images.
on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @02:52AM (#1077328)
"Too big of an image!" just bugs me stylistically. Maybe: "The dimensions input are too large!"
Re:Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?
on Thursday May 01, 2008 @06:08AM (#178288)
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.