Archive for March, 2010
Three Gigs This Week
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010This weekend, Friday and Saturday April 2nd and 3rd, I will be playing bass with Rock City Band at two clubs north of Boston.
A nice little tutorial on modern trends in processor architecture
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Greg Pfister at Perils of Parallel has a nice little tutorial up on the tradeoffs among superscalar, VLIW, and “Simple Multicore”.  I guess you’ve got to care a bit about hardware for this to be worthwhile, but I’d encourage anyone with an interest in modern computer systems to take a look. It’s reasonably accessible even […]