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Matrix Algebra on GPU: An interview with MAGMA lead developers

Linux Today  Tue, 11/15/2011 - 23:03

FLOSS for Science: "In this Floss4Science interview we bring you the leaders of the MAGMA (Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures) project: Jack Dongarra and Stanimire (Stan) Tomov."


 

Remembering the promise of FLOSS

Linux Today  Sat, 11/12/2011 - 22:02

IT World: "We don't hear about community installfests so much anymore (though I know they happen), and information about computer recycling programs is thin on the ground.

So, either these events aren't being broadcast, or their frequency is decreasing."


 

Interview: Andy Spencer, developer of Aweather a meteorological ...

Linux Today  Fri, 09/30/2011 - 02:00

FLOSS For Science: "This week's interview is with Andy Spencer, developer of Aweather, a free software for visualizing meteorological radar data."


 

PiCloud: Scientific open source computing in the cloud

Linux Today  Thu, 09/22/2011 - 03:01

FLOSS for Science: "This week we interviewed Ken Elkabany, CEO of another company with a business model on top of scientific open source software: PiCloud."


 

Interview: Lucian Langa, gnoduino lead developer

Linux Today  Sun, 09/04/2011 - 08:01

FLOSS For Science: "This week we interviewed Lucian Langa, the lead developer of gnoduino, a development environment for Arduino projects under Gnome."


 

Interview: SciRuby Team

Linux Today  Sun, 08/21/2011 - 08:01

Floss For Science: "This week we interviewed three members of the SciRuby team (a collection of tools for scientific computation written in the Ruby language): John Woods, John Prince and Claudio Bustos."


 

FLOSS: Accept no substitutes

Linux Today  Thu, 07/14/2011 - 02:00

ITworld: "Free-as-in-freedom software is very often free-as-in-beer, too."


 

Internet connection through (GSM) USB Modem with wvdial

Linux Today  Fri, 04/15/2011 - 14:11

Technology FLOSS: "Just tonight I'm having problems to start my internet connection with the NetworkManager on kubuntu maverick.

The connection has been working like a charm these days so I'd think it's some kind of hiccups. Here's the recipe for it."


 

Broken RAID5 you said? Don't use Java anymore. Go with python in...

Linux Today  Thu, 11/25/2010 - 21:02

Technology FLOSS: "So, you have a broken RAID5 and found the article I wrote for the Free Software Magazine 5 years ago about it and would like to give it a shot.

First off: Good luck! You are gonna need it."


 

My thoughts on the switch to wayland

Linux Today  Tue, 11/16/2010 - 01:04

Technology FLOSS: "Like anybody cares for what I think, right? Anyway... I made a comment in one of these wayland-related news at linuxtoday and Carla Shroder took the time to ask me: "...why all that extra complexity to go back to where we were in the first place?""