Archive for July, 2007

Verizon Users Send 10 Billion SMSs in 1 Month … So?

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Here is a textually.org article on Verizon users sending over 10 billion SMS messages in one (1) months time. This is definitely something special for America.
Verizon Wireless customers sent and received more than 10 billion text messages in June 2007, a company record and the highest reported total of any wireless service provider in the […]

Parallel Computing: Hyperslabs in HDF5

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Well, I hope you guys where able to get HDF5 and OpenMPI running on your machines. As you will notice, the previous example code is not very useful because every process can read and write to any part of the file. This means that “you” as the programmer will have to manually control what is […]

Parallel Computing: HDF5 and MPIO for Fedora Core 6

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

As a professor once told me, “70% of a typical modeling problem is about pre-processing of data”. One of the biggest problems of data pre-processing is simple storing, representation and loading of data. Fortunately, the folks at the NCSA took the time to create stuff we could actually use to solve these problems.
What is HDF5?

HDF5 […]