Recently I have been involved in scaling Hadoop for our Chip Multi-Threading (CMT) machines (e.g., systems running up to 256 threads per node.) Hadoop is a Java-based open-source MapReduce framework that enables users to deploy their cloud-friendly workloads across many computing nodes.

I know I said this about Lego Mindstorm back in the day and never followed through, but I have just discovered the NeuroSky Mindset device and… I Must have this SDK!

AmigaForever is a very full-featured AmigaOS emulation tool, packed with various different ROMs and AmigaOS versions (1.3-3.x), as well as tons and tons of included games, software, and demos. This new version comes with even more stuff.

One of the early computing machines built in the UK, the ACE is one that should not be forgotten or overlooked. This machine was the brainchild of Alan Turing and perhaps deserves to be called a Turing machine rather more than the theoretical machine more usually given this name. Is it interesting not only because it is the product of one of the greatest of computer scientists, it is also a very strange machine. We tend to think that there really is only one design for a computer. Even the earliest valve based serial computers are sufficiently like the standard Von Neumann design for us to be able to understand them and see how they fit into the overall development of hardware. The ACE is so different that it comes as something of a shock, a refreshing shock…

Clay and Aaron were both at the University of Illinois Summer School program so the weeks show was prerecorded interview with Dr. Calvin Lin discussing Principles of Parallel Programming, a book he co-authored with Dr. Lawrence Snyder.