Tuesday, January 4, 2011

RSS Digest: Week Ending 31-Dec-2010

Java

Java concurrency bug patterns for multicore systems
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-concurrencybugpatterns/

Josh Bloch on Java and Programming
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/josh-bloch-java-prog

Java SE & Java EE Performance: A Lot Of Garbage
http://ua.sun.com/java/Performance_SRitter.pdf

A Comparative Study of JVM Implementations with SPECjvm2008
http://web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp/~hitoshi/RESEARCH/iccea2010.pdf

Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html

NUMA-Aware Java Heaps for Server Applications
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/ipdps05.pdf

Help for the NUMA Weary
http://blogs.sun.com/jonthecollector/entry/help_for_the_numa_weary

Java Knobs: How to Change Performance of the Sun JVM
http://www4.java.no/presentations/javazone/2007/slides/5334.pdf

Do Java 6 threading optimizations actually work?
http://www.infoq.com/articles/java-threading-optimizations-p1


Other

Scientific Computing on Heterogeneous Architectures
http://babrodtk.at.ifi.uio.no/files/publications/brodtkorb_phd_thesis.pdf

Google Body Browser
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
(requires a WebGL browser)

The disposable academic - Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223

Sick of reading? Five cool things you can do with your Amazon Kindle
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/27/sick-of-reading-five-cool-things-you-can-do-with-your-amazon-kindle/

Intel's Sandy Bridge Architecture Exposed
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3922/intels-sandy-bridge-architecture-exposed

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