I know I’ve had the experience of having a particular technical problem and having to try lots of different tools to find one that can solve it for me. It can be frustrating, because a lot of the time you’re experimenting to get to know the tool, rather than actually putting it to work to [...]
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I know, don’t tell me: you’ve got enough of your own. But there’s a new project I learned about from the proceedings of the HotPar 11 workshop that provides you with a set of documented concurrency bugs you can download. The aim is to provide a benchmark for race, atomicity and deadlock errors (called RADBench) [...]
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The final presentation I’d like to blog about from Intel’s invite-only ISTEP conference in Barcelona last week, was delivered by Christian Terboven from the Center for Computing and Communication and RWTH Aachen University. He said that the engineering science and natural sciences community at Aachen understood how software simulations can help to accelerate research, but [...]
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