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Hybrid, Private Clouds on the Agenda at Open Source Business Conference

The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is just getting underway in San Francisco, and it should come as no surprise that open source cloud computing is one of the main points of focus at the conference. Later today, a panel will convene on hybrid clouds, where a number of movers and shakers will discuss how companies are requiring public and private cloud deployments, and how open source cloud platforms serve these requirements.

 
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Mont Blanc Targets Scientific Applications for Energy Efficient HPC


Clipped from http://www.montblanc-project.eu/scientific-applications

 

While many are looking at ARM-based processing as the future of energy-efficient HPC, it won’t get far without applications. Now, the Mont Blanc project has published a list of key scientific apps to be ported to the platform.

The Mont Blanc project aims to assess the potential of low-power embedded components based clusters to address future Exascale HPC needs. Among other objectives, we also aim to assess on the different generation of platforms made available by the project the behaviour of up to eleven real exascale-class scientific applications. These eleven real scientific applications, used by academia and industry, running daily in production into existing European (PRACE Tier-0 systems) or national HPC facilities have been selected by the different partners in order to cover a wide range of scientific domains (geophysics, fusion, materials, particle physics, life sciences, combustion, weather forecast) as well as hardware and software needs.

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GDB supports AArch64 Linux

Among the new additions to version 7.6 of the GDB GNU debugger are new native configurations. The developers have also implemented numerous new commands and options as well as various new Python scripting features

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Apache CloudStack 2013 Collaboration Conference Call for Proposals

square-cloudmonkey.pngWe’re pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals (CfP) for the second CloudStack Collaboration Conference is now open! The conference is being held in Santa Clara, CA from Sunday June 23 through Tuesday June 25.

The Collaboration Conference will feature tracks for users, developers, and integrators of Apache CloudStack. We’re looking for presentations that provide insight into best practices in deploying and developing Apache CloudStack.

Bringing Design Thinking to Information Technology

‘Design is more than just creativity, or a phase in creating a product, service, or application. It’s a way of thinking that can transform an entire enterprise.’

FOSS Fact or Fiction? A Tale of Two Surveys

It’s a well-known fact that statistics can be manipulated to suit virtually every occasion and purpose, but every once in a while an example comes along that illustrates that rule with breathtaking clarity. Case in point? Two recent surveys on the topic of FOSS that came out in the very same week. One suggested Linux was taking over the software world. The other concluded that Linux caused problems for the vast majority of enterprises that used it.

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Image Annotation in GIMP, Dia, and OpenOffice Draw

The GIMP is a wonderful image editor, but it might be overkill if all you want to do is annotate an image. If you want to highlight a part of an image, so that for example the audience for your presentation can focus on a particular aspect, you’ll probably find it easier and more intuitive to do that in a program such as Dia or OpenOffice Draw. Let’s see how to annotate an image in all three programs.

As an example, we’ll highlight an image by circling an area and creating an arrow to point at the circle. All three of the tools mentioned allow you to work in different layers, separating the edits of the background from the annotations. We’ll work with an image of coats of arms that dates from 1876, and highlight the coat of arms for Siam (Thailand), which shows an elephant. You could ask an audience to count down four rows and over two columns, but if you draw a circle around the item, the audience can quickly find it immediately.

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Apple, Samsung’s Next Critical Play: Affordable Smartphones

Both companies have made a killing with their flagship products, but the next wave of growth will depend on how well they adapt to the low end of the market. [Read more]

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Google Glass’s Android Code Now Available

Ready to start programming for Google Glass? The tools are out there. While only a handful of Google Glasses are out, but Google has quietly released its Android-based core kernel code.

Debian Project News – April 29th, 2013

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Welcome to this year's ninth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
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  * First Qt 5 packages in experimental
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