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« The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. The Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures. »

DryadLINQ is a Microsoft Research project, which aims to make distributed computing on clusters of computers simple enough for all programmers. DryadLINQ combines another Microsoft Research technology, Dryad, with the familiar LINQ technology from the Microsoft .NET framework.

OpenCV is a library of computer vision algorithms, picture processing algorithms, and general-purpose numerical algorithms. The library is written in C/C++ and is free both for academic and commercial use, as it is distributed under the BSD license. The time has come to check this library with the PVS-Studio code analyzer. OpenCV is a large library. It contains more than 2500 optimized algorithms and consists of more than 1 million code lines. Cyclomatic complexity of the most complex function cv::cvtColor() is 415. It is no wonder that we have found quite many errors and questionable fragments in its code. However, the size of the source code taken into account, we may call this library a high quality one.

Raspberry Pi for pwning and penetration testing? Of course! Why not? As an introduction, Raspberry Pi is an ARM GNU / Linux box or a credit card size mini computer that can be plugged in to your TV using an HDMI cable then to your USB type of keyboard and mouse.

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing. It supports distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. It uses an LLVM-based JIT compiler to achieve near C performance that far outstrips Python/Matlab/R ...

« Simon was among the founding fathers of several of today's important scientific domains, including artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, attention economics, organization theory, complex systems, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He coined the terms bounded rationality and satisficing, and was the first to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. »