Jumat, 04 Mei 2012

Slashdot Newsletter 2012-05-04

 
 
Tracking Parallel Loops in Cilk Plus
In this blog, I\'m going to use a parallel for loop to demonstrate some basics about the Cilk Plus extensions to C++, as well as some handy helper methods to use during debugging or fine-tuning your application.  
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Using Reducers to Make Our Loops Thread Safe
In this blog, we\'re going to look at the issue presented in my last blog post (\"Tracking Parallel Loops in Cilk Plus\") regarding the problem of writing data out to a stream and the data getting mixed together between threads. As an example, I want several threads to simultaneously write portions of XML.  
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From the Department of they-brought-out-the-gimp-again-and-again
Cryophallion writes "After many years of development, GIMP 2.8 is finally released. Among its features: the oft-desired single-window mode, layer groups, and many other massive improvements, including some of the GIMP UI team's work. This might be...
 
From the Department of could've-told-you-that
ideonexus writes "NFL Linebacker Junior Seau's suicide this week bears a striking similarity to NFL Safety Dave Duerson's suicide last year, who shot himself in the chest so that doctors could study his brain, where they found the same chronic...
 
From the Department of strange-bedfellows
An anonymous reader writes "A security researcher believes that Microsoft has overhauled Skype, with thousands of Linux boxes serving as the 'supernodes' that route calls between users of the voice-over-IP service. Kostya Kortchinsky of Immunity...
 
From the Department of not-so-secret
An anonymous reader writes "If you're running a terrorist organization, it might make sense to encrypt your files. Clearly Osama Bin Laden didn't realize that — as some of the documents seized during the raid on his hideout in Pakistan have...
 
From the Department of I-miss-borders
New accepted submitter super_rancid writes that issue 154 of the "UK-based Linux Format magazine was pulled from Barnes and Noble bookstores in the U.S. after featuring an article called 'Learn to Hack'. They used 'hack' in the populist security...
 
From the Department of hey-zonk
An anonymous reader writes "Today Bethesda announced that their popular Elder Scrolls series of video games will be getting its own MMORPG. It's planned for 2013, and will be available for PCs and Macs. 'Players will discover an entirely new...
 
From the Department of fresh-new-face
CWmike writes "Mozilla is working on a revamp of Firefox to synchronize its various versions — desktop, tablet, phone and Windows 8 Metro — into a single visual style, according to documents posted by members of its user interface (UI)...
 
From the Department of that-pesky-proof-thing
milbournosphere writes "New York Judge Gary Brown has found that IP addresses don't provide enough evidence to identify pirates, and wrote an extensive argument explaining his reasoning. A quote from the judge's order: 'While a decade ago, home...
 
From the Department of but-we-were-just-pampering-the-evidence
sunbird writes "As previously covered on Slashdot, on April 18th the FBI seized a server located in a New York colocation facility shared by May First / People Link and Riseup.net. The server, which was operated by the European Counter Network...
 
From the Department of thinking-about-a-giant-USB-hub
An anonymous reader writes "I have at least 10 assorted hard drives ranging from 100 GB to 3 TB, including external drives, IDE desktop drives, laptop drives, etc. What's the best way to setup a home NAS to utilize all this 'excess' space? And...
 
From the Department of so-many-to-choose-from
1sockchuck writes "Are you ready for wider servers? The Open Compute Project today shared details on Open Rack, a new standard for hyperscale data centers, which will feature 21-inch server slots, rather than the traditional 19 inches. "We are...
 
From the Department of free-code
itwbennett writes "The European Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright. In its ruling on a case brought by SAS Institute...
 
From the Department of such-small-portions
New submitter DerekduPreez writes "Microsoft has revealed that it will increase volume licencing prices in the UK by an average of 29 percent to adjust for the 'sustained currency differences between European countries'. UK businesses have until...
 
From the Department of that-which-is-forbidden
New submitter sleiper writes "Today sees UK ISPs begin to block access for their subscribers to the Pirate Bay URL. Sky, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and O2 have already blocked access and the UK's biggest provider, BT, are currently reviewing their...
 
From the Department of do-your-own-work
An anonymous reader writes "Germany's minister for science and education, Annette Schavan, faces allegations that substantial parts of her PhD thesis have been copied without proper attribution. According to the Wordpress blog that brought up the...
 
 
 
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