Creating Careers for Research Software Engineers

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November 20, 2015

“Recognition of status and career advancement in academia relies on publications. If your skills as a software developer lead you to focus on code to the detriment of your publication history, then your career will come to a grinding halt – despite the fact that your work may have significantly advanced research. This situation is simply not acceptable.”

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Pitivi 0.95 Released

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LWN

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November 20, 2015

The Pitivi 0.95 release is out, bringing a lot of changes to this longstanding video editor project. “This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In this blog post, I’ll give you an overview of the new and interesting stuff this release brings, coming out from a year of hard work. It’s pretty epic and you’re in for a few surprises, so I suggest listening to this song while you’re reading this blog post.“

Detectify: Chrome Extensions – AKA Total Absence of Privacy

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LWN

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November 20, 2015

The “Detectify Labs” site has put up a lengthy analysis of the user tracking taking place in many Chrome browser extensions. “Google, claiming that Chrome is the safest web browser out there, is actually making it very simple for extensions to hide how aggressively they are tracking their users. We have also discovered exactly how intrusive this sort of tracking actually is and how these tracking companies actually do a lot of things trying to hide it. Due to the fact that the gathering of data is made inside an extension, all other extensions created to prevent tracking (such as Ghostery) are completely bypassed.” At the end they note that the situation with Firefox is not a whole lot better.

New HPCG Benchmark List Goes Beyond LINPACK to Compare Supercomputers

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insideHPC

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November 20, 2015

The High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) Benchmark list was announced this week at SC15. This is the fourth list produced for the emerging benchmark designed to complement the traditional High Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark used as the official metric for ranking the TOP500 systems. The first HPCG list was announced at ISC’14 a year and a half ago, containing only 15 entries and the SC’14 list had 25. The current list contains more than 60 entries as HPCG continues to gain traction in the HPC community.

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Video: OpenHPC Community Launches at SC15

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November 20, 2015

In this video from SC15, Karl Schulz from Intel and Michael Miller from SUSE describe the all-new OpenHPC Community. “The use of open source software is central to HPC, but lack of a unified community across key stakeholders – academic institutions, workload management companies, software vendors, computing leaders – has caused duplication of effort and has increased the barrier to entry,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. “OpenHPC will provide a neutral forum to develop one open source framework that satisfies a diverse set of cluster environment use-cases.”

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Nouveau Kepler Re-Clocking Is Working A Lot Better On Linux 4.4

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Phoronix

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November 20, 2015

With the in-development Linux 4.4 kernel, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 series (Kepler) graphics cards are manually re-clocking a lot better to allow better performance on this unofficial NVIDIA Linux driver.

11 New Open Source Development Tools

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Datamation

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November 20, 2015

These open source tools were first released or open sourced within the past couple of years and are worth checking out.

This Week in Linux News: Red Hat & Microsoft Execs Share Thoughts on Evolution of Open Source, Linux Encoder Ransomware is Easily Fixed, & More.

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November 19, 2015

Secure lock This week in Linux news, Red Hat and Microsoft executives share their thoughts on the evolution of open source, Linux Encoder ransomware is easy to fix, and more! Catch up on the latest and most important Linux headlines.

1) Red Hat and Microsoft executives weigh in on the growing importance of open source.

Red Hat CEO and Microsoft EVP On The Evolution Of Open Source And Business– Forbes

2) Despite alarm, Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware is easy to fix.

How to Easily Defeat Linux Encoder Ransomware– ZDNet

3) Microsoft’s “Visual Studio” adds remote debugging of Linux applications using GDB.

Visual Studio Now Supports Debugging Linux Apps; Code Editor Now Open Source– Ars Technica

4) Linux Foundation launches OpenHPC.

The Linux Foundation Announces OpenHPC Collaborative Project– ITWorld

5) CoreOS’s Clair security monitoring tool for containers is the latest way to combat Linux security vulnerabilities.

Clair from CoreOS Automates Container Security for Open Source Linux OS– The VAR Guy

How to generate a animated GIF or movie out of images on Linux

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November 19, 2015

It is very unlikely for anyone nowadays not to own a device that is capable of shooting many consecutive pictures (burst mode). While this is useful for helping you take the perfect shot in sport events etc, you may want to use some of those successive frames to create a movie. Thankfully, you can do this very easily on Linux. In this tutorial, I will use five (not so closely successive) shots of my Cockatiel parrot bird trying to drink some of my coffee.

Silver Spring Networks IoT Edge Router Built for Smart Cities

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eWeek

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November 19, 2015

Silver Spring Networks unveiled its IoT Edge Router, expanding the capabilities of its Internet of things networking platform.

The compute and mesh-based communications in the Linux-based IoT Edge Router allows devices to communicate with and control each other at the edge of the network, and provides a platform to test and develop next-generation smart city applications such as data analytics, real-time sensors, dynamic lighting and traffic flow monitoring.