A Comic Book Introduction to ZPL

The following "comic" book was distributed for the first time at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona. It introduces many of the constructs in ZPL but, unlike its name suggests, is not funny. It covers many advanced features of the language which may be inappropriate for the average beginning parallel programmer.

Not that I GET this... but I still think its cool.

ZPL Comic Book

Kerrighed descriptionDownloadKerrighed is a Single System Image operating system for clusters. Kerrighed offers the view of a unique SMP machine on top of a cluster of standard PCs.

The goals of Kerrighed are high performance of applications, high availability of the cluster, efficient resources management, high customizability of the operating system and ease of use.

Kerrighed is implemented as an extension to Linux operating system (a set of Linux modules and a small patch to the kernel).

Here are some key features of "Kerrighed":
Customizable Cluster Wide Process Scheduler.

� Processes and threads are automatically scheduled over the cluster nodes to balance the CPU load using the Kerrighed default scheduling algorithm. However, Kerrighed offers a toolkit to easily write customized schedulers hot-loadable through kernel modules.

Cluster Wide Shared Memory.

� Threads and System V memory segments can operate through the whole cluster, just like on an SMP machine.

High Performance Stream Migration Mechanism.

� Processes using streams (socket, pipe, fifo, char device, etc) can be migrated with no penalty on communication performance after migration.

Distributed File System.

� A unique file name space is seen over the whole cluster. All cluster disks are merged in an unique virtual disk in a customizable RAID-like fashion.

Process Checkpointing.

� Processes can be checkpointed and restarted on any cluster node.

Full Posix Thread Interface.

� The full Posix Thread interface can operate with threads spread over cluster nodes.

Cluster Wide Unix Process Interface.

� All traditional UNIX process management commands (top, ps, kill, etc) operate cluster wide. Moreover, process identifiers (pid) are unique cluster wide.

Customizable Single System Image Features.

� Single system image features (shared memory, global scheduler, migrable streams, etc) can be enabled or desabled on a per process basis.

Looks like an SMP OSCAR... comes with Laser Beans.

Kerrighed 1.0.1 for Linux - Kerrighed is a single system image for clusters. - Softpedia

Can I use your QODBC Driver with the Java ODBC Bridge product from Sun?
Added on 2004-10-25

Yes, here is some example code from one of our happy customers:

// QuickBooks variables
Connection con =null;
Statement stmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;

QDBC with Java

QODBC is a fully functional ODBC driver for reading and writing QuickBooks 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 accounting data files by using standard SQL queries. It requires an ODBC compliant front-end application such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder or Delphi. Once installed, it will allow these applications to read and write QuickBooks Accounting files in the same fashion as other file formats installed on your computer. Using the official QuickBooks SDK interface, we are able to offer our customers total compatibility with all QuickBooks file formats.

SQL teh quickbooks.

QODBC Driver for QuickBooks - Main Product Page

The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.

Anyone who comes across a torrent of this, please post it.

PLEASE!

Telegraph | Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers

If you think of insurance as producing wasteful consumption of medical services, then the fact that there are forty-five million Americans without health insurance is no longer an immediate cause for alarm. After all, it’s not as if the uninsured never go to the doctor. They spend, on average, $934 a year on medical care. A moral-hazard theorist would say that they go to the doctor when they really have to. Those of us with private insurance, by contrast, consume $2,347 worth of health care a year. If a lot of that extra $1,413 is waste, then maybe the uninsured person is the truly efficient consumer of health care.
The moral-hazard argument makes sense, however, only if we consume health care in the same way that we consume other consumer goods, and to economists like Nyman this assumption is plainly absurd. We go to the doctor grudgingly, only because we’re sick. “Moral hazard is overblown,” the Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt says. “You always hear that the demand for health care is unlimited. This is just not true. People who are very well insured, who are very rich, do you see them check into the hospital because it’s free? Do people really like to go to the doctor? Do they check into the hospital instead of playing golf?”

The New Yorker: The Moral Hazard Myth

Decoding Health Insurance

By Robin Cook

New York Times

5.22.05

Nearly five years ago, President Bill Clinton had an all-star gathering at the White House to announce the completion of the first draft of the human genome's approximately 3.2 billion base pairs. Speaking to an audience that included eminent scientists like Dr. James Watson, who helped discover DNA, Mr. Clinton pronounced that "today we are learning the language in which God created life." Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain chimed in via satellite, "For most of us, today's developments are too awesome to comprehend."

Out from behind the wall of flames.

California Health Insurance Reliability Act (CHIRA)

If you spend any time on the Internet sending e-mail or browsing the Web, then you use domain name servers without even realizing it. Domain name servers, or DNS, are an incredibly important but completely hidden part of the Internet, and they are fascinating! The DNS system forms one of the largest and most active distributed databases on the planet. Without DNS, the Internet would shut down very quickly.

In this edition of HowStuffWorks, we will take a look at the DNS system so you can understand how it works and appreciate its amazing capabilities.

DNS for Dummies

Howstuffworks

The Domain Name System or DNS is a system that stores information about hostnames and domain names in a type of distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. Of the many types of information that can be stored, most importantly it provides a physical location (IP address) for each domain name, and lists the mail exchange servers accepting e-mail for each domain.

The DNS provides a vital service on the Internet as it allows the transmission of technical information in a user-friendly way. While computers and network hardware work with IP addresses to perform tasks such as addressing and routing, humans generally find it easier to work with hostnames and domain names (such as www.example.com) in URLs and e-mail addresses. The DNS therefore mediates between the needs and preferences of humans and of software.

Brushing up on DNS

Domain Name System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This tutorial will cover the installation of DNS on a Windows 2003 system. By reading through this tutorial you will learn about caveats that need to be noted when installing one of the most important services on a Windows network.

Remember

Installing DNS On Windows 2003