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Better Mobile Media
Tchaikovsky Symphony number four opens with the full force of the combined brass section at fortissimo introducing the main theme. One minute thirty seconds later,…
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Power Plays: Raising the Stakes
The cards having been dealt, he took a peek at his down cards. A king… not bad… a 2… now why couldn’t we be playing…
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Passing the Torch
The royalty walk quietly among the common folk here. The thick-carpeted mahogany-veneered opulence typical of high-tech presidential palaces is nowhere to be seen. Instead, on…
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Accelerating Persistent Surveillance Radar with the Cell Broadband Engine
Multicore processing chips answer the power-energy challenge while increasing processing capability. For many years, increasing the computational power of processing chips has been achieved by…
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Multicore to Massively Parallel
“There is a lot of hype about multicore, but there is no infrastructure to support it.” A throw-away remark from a senior figure in an…
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The Very Model Of Reusability
Silos can be wonderful things when used properly. They keep your grain dry when it rains. They provide a handy storage. They can look lovely,…
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Reconfigurable Computing for Acceleration in HPC
There has been significant research to support the potential performance gains available through the use of reconfigurable hardware for certain classes of computationally-intensive tasks. However,…
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Making FPGAs Cool Again – Part 1
It was a demonstration that buzzed around the (admittedly small incestuous) industry. A digital clock being powered by a grapefruit. It’s the kind of thing…
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HDMI To Go
My setup bears the tell-tale tattoos of early-adopter syndrome. Each signal source plumbed into the cable jungle on the back of the receiver has no…
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Attacking Abuses of Power – Part 1
It’s the era of energy. Look at the newspaper and see how many stories ultimately relate to energy. Oil and gas prices are up. Natural…