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Could be considered as Distributed Computing...

Four Lessons on JavaScript

Intrinsic 3-d effect are enabling for effective virtual reality systems......

How to Create Another Mediawiki on the Same Server, Using the Same Source Code, Using the Same Database, but with its own Tables

looks like a platform independent svn but with nice graphical interface? useful for us? -LS

I would propose that we test this as an alternative to collaborative writing on wiki or google docs? what you think? LS

something for Marco ...

semantic web is here as well as AI and other ACT related ideas

new revTex version available ... what do they mean by this? how do they use XML and latex to XML? would this also be an option for acta futura? "While we appreciate the benefits to authors of preparing manuscripts in TeX, especially for math-intensive manuscripts, it is neither a cost-effective composition tool (for the volume of pages AIP currently produces) nor is it a format that can be used effectively for online publishing."

Dunno really, they may have some in-house process that converts LaTeX to XML for some reason. Probably they are using some subset of SGML, the standard generalized markup language from which both HTML and XML derive. Don't think is really relevant for Acta Futura, and the rest of the world seems to get along with TeX just fine...

new open source tool from google .... Francesco: of any interest to us?

I don't think so, it is just a code optimizer for JavaScript, unless there are somewhere big JavaScript (web2.0) applications running that is not of much interest for us Other google labs systems e.g. FriendConnect could be useful for Ariadnet, maybe also the visualization and social graph API

and it seems to have some rather big flaws: http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=6a00fd034f6a8cf464e2d9fbb83dc321

new programming language - hybrid between c and python .... from google .... of any interest for us?

See the other post for my comments....

sorry - did not see Juxi's entry ....

Isn't it the one we could have used for the debris thing ?

yes, exactly this one! .... pity, isn't it that we did not find a suitable thing to cooperate with them ...

Sorry, in German, but a nice critical article on swarm intelligence.

Instead of classifying galaxies (image analysis), this new project asks the public to try to recreate collisions

nice tool ... but apparently not open source :-(

already posted further down the page

Finally a massively multi-core general-purpose architecture.

Well, nice, but I wonder how much cache per core will be available... With 48 cores a single memory bus becomes nothing more than one big (small? :) ) bottleneck.

Apparently they have separated L2 cache per-tile (i.e., every two processors) and a high speed bus connecting the tiles. As usual, whether it will be fast enough will depend from the specific applications (which BTW is also true for other current multi-core architectures). The nice thing is of course that porting software to this architecture will be one order of magnitude less difficult than going to Tesla/Fermi/CELL architectures. Also, this architecture will also be suitable for other tasks than floating point computations (damn engineers polluting computer science :P) and it has the potential to be more future-proof than other solutions.

Open-source cloud computing platform from NASA... Nice!