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XSLT 2.0: Regular Expression Functions and Instructions
XSLT 2.0: Regular expressions One of the weaknesses in XSLT 1.0 was the very simple set of string manipulation features. In comparison to many popular programming languages, the string functions lacked one very powerful feature, regular expressions. Intel SOA Expressway actually offers this functi …
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Musings on social media in education
Initially, this post was going to be titled "To blog or not to blog", but that seemed to perhaps cut a little too close to my perhaps overly infrequent updates here. What I wanted to muse about a bit, however, was the sudden currency of the issues around higher education and the use of social media …
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Multicore in Systems Classes -- #1
I'm giving this a very leading title -- with any luck this is the first of a series of blog entries about my experiences weaving multicore concepts and issues into the junior-level Operating Systems course that I'm teaching this semester. The title is specifically "Design of Operating Systems", whi …
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n-bodies: a parallel TBB solution: serial body forces one more time
My plan to go parallel this time was thwarted by concerns that I may still have left some serial performance on the table. So I’ll take one more look (OK, well, no more than three). Leading the contenders was Jim Dempsey’s suggestion that accumulating forces instead of accelerations would save some …
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Check out this McCool event in December at UPCRC
December 3rd at 4PM CST 12/3 | 4PM | 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science UPCRC Illinois Research Seminar: A Structured, Unified Approach to Multi-Core and Many-Core Computing - with Applications by Michael McCool, Intel & U of Waterloo
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VOICE Your Opinion - Software Developer Benefits?
What program benefits do you need most to support your software development process and business growth? As the software industry evolves into 2010 the Intel Software Partner Program wants to hear your VOICE. Let us know what benefits you crave in 2010. All proposed benefits will be reviewed and c …
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Performance per Watt: Hey, I already know it’s important, don’t I? (The intro, part I)
What is performance per Watt per Watt is pretty straight forward when you first look at it. Then you begin to sink in the quicksand you’ve blithely walked into. The panic sets in as you sink lower and lower. Eventually you decide to ignore the whole complicated mess and go back to saying to yourself …
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API drafts posted at W3C - web developer comments welcome!
The other day ago our team, including Clayne Robison who also has a blog here on ISN, posted some API drafts to the W3C's Device API and Policy Working Group. In a previous post I kicked off a conversation with web developers about exposing device capabilities as javascript APIs and widgets in the b …
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Surprising experiences with my netbook
So everyone is asking ... just what is the big deal with netbooks these days? I used to be in that camp too before I got my new Toshiba mini netbook. I always just used to think "So what, it's a little PC." and "Why would I want one of these? I already have a laptop." Well I will tell you, I've …
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Search of explicit type conversion errors in 64-bit programs
On forums I'm constantly asked questions concerning search of incorrect explicit type conversion when porting code on a 64-bit platform. I decided to write this small note so that I could refer people to it and avoid writing the answer every time.The description of the problem looks approximately as …
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Robert Kasten on OpenSolaris Collaboration
In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Robert Kasten, Senior Engineering Manager at Intel, talks about the collaboration between Intel and Sun in the OpenSolaris community to improve system performance, energy efficiency, driver support for desktops and mobile platforms used primarily by devel …
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Backing Up Data at Lightning Speed
Backing up your data is more important than ever and a speedy process can get you back to work quickly. Software companies are focusing on developing back-up solutions with speed and ease. Advice and resources from Intel helped the Brazilian company, Virtos Backups deliver greater speed, increasing …
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 + Silverlight 3.0 SDK
Silverlight 3.0 development is supported within Visual Studio 2010 and it includes the Silverlight 3 developer runtime and Silverlight 3 SDK build 3.0.40818. Silverlight 3 tools for Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 3 included SDK build 3.0.40624 and if these are installed when you run the Vis …
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Windows 7 + Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor + 16Gb Memory
We have only 24 hours left until the General Availability (GA) of Windows 7 and so tomorrow Windows 7 will be in the hands of consumers for the first time. With the release of Windows 7, along with the release of some awesome new processors from Intel, it was time for a new personal notebook and als …
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Is there a business opportunity?
Your product development, marketing, and sales are based on a foundation of solid planning. Our Planning Resources have expanded and now include access to: • Intel Capital -- a program that spurs innovations by investing in and supporting profitable enterprises. As well as new planning tolls page li …
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Visual Studio 2010 + Silverlight 3.0 SDK
Silverlight 3.0 development is supported within Visual Studio 2010 and it includes the Silverlight 3 developer runtime and Silverlight 3 SDK build 3.0.40818. Silverlight 3 tools for Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 3 included SDK build 3.0.40624 and if these are installed when you run the Vis …
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Windows 7 General Availability Tomorrow
We have only 24 hours left until the General Availability (GA) of Windows 7 and so tomorrow Windows 7 will be in the hands of consumers for the first time. With the release of Windows 7 along with the release of some awesome new processors from Intel it was time for a new primary notebook and also f …
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Peaceful coexistence of PC-Lint and VivaMP
We are asked different questions relating to using PC-Lint, VivaMP and other static analyzers for testing parallel programs, we are asked if these tools are competitors, and there are many other similar questions. This seems to relate to release of a new version of PC-Lint 9.0 in which support of pa …
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Intel announces Intel® SOA Expressway R2.3 and partnership with Sophos for Highly Regulated, Secure …
Today, the Intel® SOA Expressway product team has announced some of the great strides it has made with the latest release. Security Policy Designer: The Intel® SOA Expressway gateway now allows relevant teams from architecture, security & operations to design & enforce policy templates that …
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Intel® AMT: What's new on our Community? (WSMan Doc!)
Hello out there! I just wanted to let our Community know that we have refreshed some of our WSMan documentation on our Manageability Community! Did you know that WSMan will soon replace the legacy SOAP interface in the Intel® AMT SDK? This means that new features are no longer offered along with SOA …
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