June 2009
6 posts
Part 2 - Birds do it. Movie Stars do it. Cable... →
Thanks to those that provided their input on how Software Developers are using Twitter. Interesting enough, Time magazine did a major article on Twitter in their June 15th edition. One of the major…
What's cool about Moblin? →
My good friends at the Intel Software Network have launched a terrific new way to deliver technology videos to the community: ISN TV.
For their launch this week, they invited me to give a brief…
Intel Software Network TV - Are You Watching? →
Today is the first day of LIVE broadcasts for the new Intel Software Network TV, providing live video streaming plus interactive chat. Below is the complete lineup of programs for today, and our…
Two Years Later: Why Linux people still lust after... →
Bill Pearson from the Intel Software Network posted a declaration of a party on the occasion of the 2000th blog post on ISN.
One of the highlights he listed was the conversation which was…
2000 posts. Time to throw a party! →
Today we had our 2000th blog post. It struck me that this is a milestone worth mentioning. I’m amazed at how much the Software Network community has changed since we started blogging a couple…
Congrats to the OpenSolaris team for 2009.06 →
Although I’m not working actively on OpenSolaris any more, I was happy to see the launch today of OpenSolaris 2009.06. See Glenn’s announcement email here.
The download of the LiveCD distro went…
May 2009
2 posts
Moblin Beta and VirtualBox →
Yesterday I installed Moblin version 2 Beta on my Asus eeePC 901, a netbook with a little Atom processor in it. It’s been fun to walk it around with me yesterday and today showing people the future…
The Dawn of the Age of Moblin! →
The public beta of Moblin v2 is here!
If you don’t know about Moblin, read Imad’s blog for a complete introduction to the operating system, including a lot of good links. In fact, I’m typing…
April 2009
4 posts
Stateful Programming - a key element →
A key feature of Object Oriented Programming is code manageability and reusability, key feature of Procedural Programming is flow manageability. A key element in flow manageability is Stateful…
Moodle Community, Another Example of Moore's Law →
In the current unprecedented global economic downturn, a community associated with a learning management system ( LMS) called Moodle for global educators is growing at an exponential
Delusion of tbb::concurrent_vector’s size or 3... →
Like in the previous post about concurrent_vector, I’d like to start from a sentence buried in the Reference Manual, Section 4.4.6.1, which describes the size() method:
“The result may…
Shared access with TBB read/write locks →
Lately a sequence of interesting things happened to me. It started with finding an aptly titled paper “TLRW: Return of the Read-Write Lock” by Dave Dice and Nir Shavit. A couple of weeks…
March 2009
3 posts
Help: Writing a File Manager for Games? →
Programming a game is fun. It’s not every day that you get to work on algorithms for things like zombies, mechs, or aliens. However, a zombie wouldn’t be very scary if you couldn’t load the mesh,…
Amplifying Open Source 3D CAD with Intel(R)... →
Hello folks,
Let me start with a brief introduction. I am a program/release manager coordinating release activities in the team developing Intel(R) Parallel Amplifier and Inspector. The…
Intel's Virtualization for Directed I/O (a.k.a... →
IOMMU’s or Input/Output Memory Management Unit is a new entrant to the x86 world. This is something which has existed in the risc based systems for quite some time. You can get a brief introduction…
February 2009
6 posts
PowerTOP: Dave enters a video game →
Always wanted to see Dave Stewart fragged, as in “killed in a video game” ?
Yes, I knew you did. Ah, yet another analogy goes haywire.
This is another in a series of digital shorts about work…
Linux Libraries Lost and Found →
Developing an application to run on Linux systems is, for the most part, fun and rewarding. I always enjoy using new tools and seeing how much I can get the tool to do for me. But after the…
Approaching Virtual World Interoperability →
Several new developments are brewing in the metaverse. The Massive Multiplayer Online Experiences IETF group has started to form, co-chaired by Linden Lab and IBM. Linden Lab has started…
Linux Libraries Lost and Found →
Developing an application to run on Linux systems is, for the most part, fun and rewarding. I always enjoy using new tools and seeing how much I can get the tool to do for me. But after the…
Approaching Virtual World Interoperability →
Several new developments are brewing in the metaverse. The Massive Multiplayer Online Experiences IETF group has started to form, co-chaired by Linden Lab and IBM. Linden Lab has started…
How is the Conflict Between Serialization and... →
After spending some time looking around for a version control solution for a global team like the one we have, the open-source client Subversion with TortoiseSVN came to my attention, and I…
January 2009
12 posts
New Technology Solution vs The Economy - Part 2 →
So with many technology companies reporting poor quarterly financial numbers in the last month, one major technology service company report positive numbers. Their business did well because many…
So... what's next for Intel in OpenSolaris? →
Last week, I had a chance to present at Sun Tech Days in Singapore. It was originally going to be covered by Max Alt, my partner in crime from the field organization. But Max was asked to attend our…
Sun + Intel + OpenSolaris + 2 Years = The Year of... →
Today is the second anniversary of the Sun and Intel joint agreement to optimize the Solaris operating system for Intel Xeon processors. Like last year, when I wrote this summary of our work, I…
How open is OpenSolaris ? →
I have always wondered what makes a successful open source project, especially since i worked extensively on Linux and now working on OpenSolaris. Dave Stewart did a presentation a while back on…
Network Driver Build for Red Hat RHEL5U2 using... →
Recently, I received a Intel Nehalem server board upgrade that has Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit Ethernet devices (52572) as onboard NIC for software development testing. When I installed Red Hat…
MIDs getting a real workout on MID Moves →
If you’re a developer on mobile internet devices (MIDs), or just a fan, you should check out the MID Moves site that launches this week. I love this site not just because they’re playing around…
What Drives a Developer to participate in a... →
As the Intel Software Partner Program begins the New Year, we would like to hear from you on what drives you to participate in a Software blog? (the information sharing? The feedback and…
OpenSolaris and Nehalem - a digital short →
Another in the series of 5-minute videos on OpenSolaris and Xeon Processors.
This one is about the details in our work on the Intel Core i7 processor, previously known as the codename “Nehalem”….
How do Software Developers engage in the... →
The Intel Software Partner Program Team would like you to voice your opinion on how you engage in the software blogosphere.
How do you engage in the blogosphere? (Please respond to one of the…
Are you planning on enabling your software on... →
The Intel Software Partner program can help map your business strategies to the latest market opportunities, develop innovative solutions using development tools, establish a…
Using SSE4.1 for mp3 encoding quantization →
In this post I’d like to promote the new SSE 4.1 instruction set extension as it relates to the quantization loop I wrote about a few months ago. As you may recall, the modified code from…
Finally There... →
Ok.. should warn everyone this is my first blog…well, at least on the Intel Network.
Are your worried about my picture!? I don’t eat live/dead cockroaches… and trust me I dont have a 3rd eye…
December 2008
13 posts
Singapore Tech Days - OpenSolaris and Intel →
Just a quick note if you are celebrating anything between now and the end of January (Christmas, New Years, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Winter Solstice, Chinese New Year - did I catch everybody?) I will be…
Under the hood: can you tell the partitioners... →
Last time I laid out my plan for studying the partitioners. All that was left was to run the tests, collect and organize the data. Must have been a busy several months. It all went by in a blur. …
ATOM support now in OpenSolaris →
I just got a heads up that two very interesting changes were just put back to the OpenSolaris code base, related to the Intel Atom Processor:
Performance counters for Atom.
Support for the MOVBE…
Breaking speed record in COLLADA import/export →
Sony and Intel are teaming together to provide better COLLADA export/import for Max and Maya. The German company Netallied has been working on a brand new implementation, and the result of this…
Why 3D interchange tools help market hardware →
The blog link below is an interesting example of why Intel should be supporting COLLADA (which we do btw). This user wants to enhance the quality of her photoshop work by using 3D objects with…
Dave gets punked, eats crow →
Just another day as the IT Manager of the Stewart Family. Youngest daughter, aged 17, runs up the stairs in anger and frustration - her computer won’t work!
Now to be fair, when my kids were…
Congratulations Jugoslav Dujic! →
Jugoslav Dujic is our next Intel Black Belt Software Developer. Our selection team met couple weeks back and we received a unanimous vote for Jugoslav.
Jugoslav has been a contributor to…
Does "popular" mean "better" in open source? →
Here in the West, having a hit is considered the mark of success.
If you do something that is really insanely great, it should become incredibly popular, no matter what the critics or the bloggers…
Tech experts - worldwide innovation →
I have just finished the week in China, and I am again astonished at the caliber of technology talent here.
A work acquaintance from a US-based technology company told me that he is mentoring…
Fantastic demo of OpenSolaris2008.11 →
Roman Strobl, an OpenSolaris evangelist and an all around nice guy, has done a really terrific screencast of the new features in the newly launched OpenSolaris 2008.11. The video link is here
All…
My favorite OpenSolaris 2008.11 features →
The next OpenSolaris binary release is due to launch any time now. It’s turning into a pretty slick and sexy desktop release. Here are some of my favorite features:
As I previously wrote here, I…
Tech Days Tokyo →
Tokyo Tech Days 2008, originally uploaded by jimgris.
I am currently in sunny Tokyo, Japan, to give a talk about Intel’s products and our work in Java and the OpenSolaris operating…
Timing locks in C# →
A recent post to the opensim-dev mailing list highlighted a common problem in debugging complex C# code. Somewhere, a lock is being held for a long period of time and holding up other threads,…
November 2008
7 posts
OpenSolaris and Centrino 2 →
Last summer, Intel launched our latest mobile computing platform, branded Intel Centrino 2 processor technology. For a long time as we were doing OpenSolaris development, I used to know this…
"Open Architecture" + "Science Tools" = "Immersive... →
Checkout the Intel announcement regarding ScienceSim. Justin Rattner, Intel Senior Fellow and Intel CTO introduces the new program on bringing “Immersive Science” based on OpenSim platform at…
OpenSolaris at the Intel Developer Forum - Taipei →
Intel Developer Forum or IDF is our annual “geek fest” dedicated to helping the ecosystem involved with Intel to learn about our new technologies and how to succeed with them. We hold the…
Meet the new stars in the Intel Software Network... →
In addition to the Black Belt, Brown Belt and Green Belt Software Developer titles, I am going be updating the Hall of Fame Page periodically with the objective of recognizing members of our…