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　　The SuperComputing 2007 (SC07) Cluster Challenge invites teams of students to Reno mid-November to compete in a demonstration of talent, technology and entry-level supercomputing. The activity seeks to highlight the gains in hardware performance, ease of use of clusters and the power and availability of simulation software. A half-rack (a full rack is about the size of a household refrigerator) of modern day servers, or “pizza boxes” is competitive with the number one system on the top500 from only 10 years ago!
　　The Cluster Challenge will be held in Reno the week of November 10-16, 2007 as part of the annual Super Computing conference. Each of the six international teams of undergraduates have designed their commodity cluster and are supported by their chosen vendor partner. Competition rules are simple: teams may use a peak of 26 amps on a 30 amp circuit. They will use their system......    (查看原文)

　　There is now a genuine effort to begin supporting internationalization (I18N) within PHP. You can visit the general mailing list or browse the I18N archives.    (查看原文)

　　It’s been crazy over the last couple of months with the book and with starting a new job, so I’ve been slack on blogging. Well, I’m trying to get back in the saddle again, so I’ll briefly mention something here that I only discovered recently.
　　If you are working on code that you are planning to release as an egg, it can be a huge pain to go through the code->bdist_egg->easyinstall->test cycle, slightly less of a pain to do code->setup.py install->test, and slightly less of a pain still to do export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/my/project->code->test. But there is a better way. If you do “easy_install develop”, then you can just enter into a code->test cycle. This option puts a .pth file in your site-packages directory and points to the set of code you’re working on. This keeps you from having to redeploy your code every time you want to test something. It also keeps you from havin......    (查看原文)

　　Even though I do my best to avoid using Windows, at all costs, unless it is a function of work I need to perform, I am bit impressed with how far IronPython is getting along. Even with recent news stories about ugly blue screens, and cries from a crotchety old man, about finally considering Linux or Mac, Microsoft is doing something right.
　　I recently starting reading Steven Holden’s blog, and in this post, he mentions some of the exciting developments in IronPython as discussed by Michael Foord. I have played around some with IronPython, and watched a presentation on IronPython at our local Python User’s group on it, recently. I wonder though, if Apple is falling a bit behind Microsoft in its support for Python as a first class development option?
　　I went to an iPhone Development talk today, which cover......    (查看原文)

　　One hoary truth of computing technology is that most of the pressing problems today have solutions discovered or developed, at least in part, twenty years ago. (This nicely avoids the patent problem.)
　　Google’s announcement of the OpenSocial API brought up yet again the persistent problem of walled gardens on the Internet, as myriad social networking sites spring up, offer to invite all of your friends if you divulge your address books, and then slowly wither as you realize that visiting half-a-dozen sites every day to read messages from your fragmented social groups is busy work.
　　Wouldn’t it be nice if all of these disparate messaging systems could interoperate?
　　Over the weekend I encountered a dusty old RFC written in......    (查看原文)