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January 02, 2013

Isolating A Superbug

How could it possibly be that concatenating preamble and output would always work with one strategy but not another?

December 29, 2012

How to Distribute the Game of Life

Do you have a very large grid that you want to use in a simulation and the grid doesn't fit into the memory of a single node? If so, learning how to develop a distributed memory version of the Game of Life may be a practical solution.

December 28, 2012

Strong Arm Tactics

The end of the year is always a good time to catch up on major projects. This year I finally got around to working out how to program a particular ARM board from Linux.

December 26, 2012

Down The Rabbit Hole

Last week, I described how I almost traced a bug to the wrong program. Having come this far, I would like to describe the actual source of the bug — such a strange source that I would never have suspected it when I began looking.

December 20, 2012

Two Bits, Four Bits, Thirty-Two Bits?

Will you continue to use 8-bit CPUs in the next few years? What will it take for you to move over to 32-bit?




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