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How to Think about Parallel Programming---Not!
Anyone remember the old days, when for good performance you had to worry carefully about which register should hold which variable, and when? Sometimes we still do this to get extremely high performance from critical inner loops, especially when using specialized processing hardware such as GPUs.
On the other hand, we have been able to write ever more complex and ever more capable software systems only by sacrificing such micromanagement and using general-purpose tools and abstractions for coding the bulk of our software. Along the way, we have discovered that code generated by automated tools often does a better job than hand-crafted code.
And we learn to code in such a way that the behavior of our code does not depend critically on the detailed optimization decisions that we have delegated to the tools. If we want to let a compiler's register allocator have the freedom to put variables in registers, we stop writing code takes the address of a variable, as in the C expression & myvar. If we want to allow an automatic storage allocator to do its job, we must write code that works properly independently of where an object or array happens to have been allocated, and perhaps independently of whether the object or array happens to be automatically relocated in the middle of a computation. Once we do this, we don't have to think about memory placement. Good programming language design can get us from the place where we must remember "don't use this difficult feature" to the place where it's not even on the radar screen because the language provides other, better ways to think and get things done. (Example: Java doesn't even have a way to take the address of a variable.)
Likewise, the best way to write code for multiple processors is not to have to think about multiple processors. We need to get to the point where we worry about the assignment of tasks to processors just about as much as we worry about the assignment of data to memory---which is to say, only for truly critical portions of the code---and for the most part leave such decisions to automated tools.
This will require further adjustments in our programming habits---adjustments that, we argue, in the end will make programs easier to understand and maintain as well as easier to run on parallel processors. The key is not to focus on a particular technology but on useful invariants. Here, as in the past, good programming language design can help to encourage good programming habits.
Target audience: Developers with an interest in parallelism and/or computer history
Speaker Information
Guy L. Steele, Jr.
Keynote Speaker
Language Designer and Author
Fellow Sun Labs, Oracle
Links:
Websites: labs.oracle.com/projects/plrg projectfortress.sun.com
Twitter: I am not a member of Twitter. I generally deal in ideas that require paragraphs, or perhaps full-blown essays, rather than single sentences.
Books: Coders at Work The Java Language Specification Common LISP, The Language C: A Reference Manual
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de Auguste Rodin (ParĂs, Francia, 1840 - Meudon, Francia, 1917). Bronce con pátina verde y negra. FundiciĂłn de una ediciĂłn limitada por la Fundidora Valsuani, en el Museo Soumaya de la Ciudad de MĂ©xico, que "respeta los derechos morales del Museo Rodin de ParĂs".
Title: Think different (How to hang workers' uniforms)
Artist: Ai Weiwei, China.
openart.se/2015/en/artists/ai-weiwei/
Equipment:
Pentax K-S2 with PENTAX-DA L 18-50mm F4-5.6 DC WR RE
i think my bird table needs a paint job in looking at this photo.
Camera was setup at table level to catch the various birds that visit the feeder when there is still some seed left. Unfortunately, the squirrels get up there pretty quickly after putting it out.
One of the many blue jays, not one of this years brood.
A very windy day creates a new photo opportunity.
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New York, USA, 23 September 2019. Athena 40 - Global Thinkers Forum reception in New York City celebrating "Visionary WOmen Leading Positive Change" . Photo by Enrique Shore
and that is a grouper passing behind her. They said they are now catching these off the east coast of US - people are releasing them from aquariums, not a good thing.
The Thinker by Rodin at the Nelson-Atksons Mueseum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. (black and white)
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin.
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, PA
(The museum was a gift of Jules Mastbaum to the city of Philadelphia to display works of Auguste Rodin)
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Blogged by Education On The Plate ("Education? What for?" - March 2, 2010) at educationontheplate.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/education-wh...
"You may think, well, how are we going to get one billion
people to think peace?
Imagine peace.
Because if one billion people in the world think peace, we
will get peace.
Remember each one of us has the power to change the
world.
Power works in mysterious ways.
You don’t have to do much.
Visualize the domino effect and just start thinking peace.
The message will circulate faster than you think.
It’s time for action.
And the action is peace.
Spread the word.
Spread peace.
I love you!
-Yoko Ono, Excerpt from Statement for Imagine Peace
Exhibition at JEMA, Spring 2008.
Directions for Wish Peace:
WISH PIECE
Make a wish.
Write it down on a piece of paper.
Fold it and tie it around a branch of a wish tree.
Ask your friends to do the same.
Keep wishing
Until the branches are covered with wishes.
- Yoko Ono"
"John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA)
presents Yoko Ono
Sean Miller
American, b. 1967
and
Yoko Ono
American, born Japan, 1933
Yoko Ono at JEMA
IMAGINE PEACE
2008-9
Multimedia
Collection of Sean Miller"
imaginepeace.com/archives/7817
Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE at JEMA/Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art [Florida, USA]
JEMA travels IMAGINE PIECE to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, in Gainesville, Florida
JEMA proudly announces Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE is reopened at JEMA and is currently on view at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, in Gainesville, Florida [map]. Yoko Ono’s exhibition runs from From October 6 – January 3rd, 2009-10, and includes her text-based work IMAGINE PEACE (2007) as well as WISH PIECE (1996). Viewers are invited to attend JEMA’s new outdoor sculpture garden and contribute to one of Yoko Ono’s Wish Trees by writing wishes on provided pieces of paper and adding them to the branches of the tree. Viewers and participants will note the tree provided for the exhibition is somewhat diminutive in keeping with the scale of JEMA’s gallery spaces. JEMA consultants from the JEMA Annex were present to distribute pencils and paper for Wish Peace during the October 6th opening at the Harn Museum of Art. JEMA Annex Consultants included Charisse Calaquian, Leah Floyd, Ladis Pietros, Kelly Rogers, and Matthew Whitehead. In time, all wishes will be gathered by the Annex Consultants and sent to The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Videy Island, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Previously IMAGINE PIECE opened at JEMA in Belfast, Northern Ireland in April, 2008. The exhibition traveled from Golden Thread Gallery, Catalyst Arts, NVTV Studios, and briefly left Belfast to open in Glasgow at the Glasgow School of the Arts.
Yoko Ono writes:
Power works in mysterious ways.
You don’t have to do much.
Visualize the domino effect and just start thinking peace.
The message will circulate faster than you think.
It’s time for action.
And the action is peace.
Spread the word.
Spread peace.
I love you!
-Yoko Ono, Excerpt from Statement for Imagine Peace Exhibition at JEMA, Spring
2008.
See a little art at JEMA… More or less,
John Erickson Museum of Art
A Location Variable Museum
www.jema.us/ ("JOHN ERIKSON MUSEUM OF ART" homepage)
www.jema.us/pages/jemaintro.html
An image comes to mind of a white, ideal space that, more than any single picture,
may be the archetypal image of 20th-century art. And it clarifies itself through a process of historical inevitability usually attached to the art it contains.”
Brian O’Doherty, Inside the White Cube
Welcome to JEMA
Advancements in technology and new ideas in contemporary art are preparing the current visual art audience to witness radically new and diverse exhibition strategies. Ideas associated with Marcel Duchamp’s Boite-en-valise (1941), and Brian O’Doherty’s Inside the White Cube (1976), have (for decades) provided groundbreaking precedents from which to conceive and approach the display of art. Advancements in internet technology, digital imaging and critical insights related to site-specificity have further expanded possible innovations in art display tactics. As a result, today’s exhibition spaces may be planned, constructed, maintained, and enjoyed with unprecedented levels of affordability, efficiency, and creativity.
The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) is an example of one possible method of developing an exciting new venue for artists and viewers. It also functions as a model for discussing innovative possibilities toward the development of vital yet affordable art centers. JEMA’s portable quality offers artists an exhibition space that encourages radical experimentation with a low financial overhead. This new museum space is founded on an unwavering belief concerning the quick, decisive and efficient delivering art to the viewing public. This type of activity is an important sign of a vital cultural institution. Many art museums require years to schedule exhibitions. Moving slowly – these institutions function with power and strength but remain bogged down by red tape and expensive exhibitions.
By moving with stealth and agility, JEMA carries out its functions in a portable and thrifty manner. JEMA’s design allows for a greater focus on exhibition planning and a stronger intercommunication between the institution, exhibiting artists, and you (the viewing public). JEMA brings the art to you!
Think JEMA…more or less.
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
SW 34th Street and Hull Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-2700
PHONE 352.392.9826
Higher-level thinkers don’t just magically emerge from low-level thinking spaces
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I was at the Yew Lodge Hotel in Kegworth today, where the newest Marco Pierre White restaurant was opened. How many of these armchairs does he have, I wonder? Anyway, it's black and white striped which I think fits this week's alphabet challenge quite well, N for Negative.
From the Burrell Collection, Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker". The Burrell Collection is located in Pollok Park, Glasgow, UK.
No Tesco.
Putting my obvious curmudgeonly geographical grumblings aside*...I say more power to everyones elbow regarding saying no to "The Borg" that is Tesco.
Remember Golden Hill?
It's about time they got one in the eye for that - it'll do them good to have someone saying NO to them for once.
*...it's Cheltenham Rd not SC but hey ho, no one's listening, I'll get over it! ;p
And you placed Alisa inside of you. you never even asked me. What do you think is going to happen to you, CIA Whore and MURDERER Jami Rose?
Still creating that "natural order" and ordinance time of yours on a daily monthly weekly yearly basis and killing people in time, CIA Whore and MURDERER Jami Rose? :)
how much longer do you think before it ends up, on *your* end :)
you set up the channel without even asking me jami, and then you did what you wanted to, in 2005 and 2006. you chose murder jami, you chose
who supported you jami.. and why did you accept $$,$$$ to contain 176 at 1831 salecdo/guyaso, and let those people die.. without even asking
me, if you could could create that channel, if you contain me. you chose jami. you chose murder. who supported you?
your CIA Whore Jami Rose MURDERED all of those people, DESTROYED all of those lives, what should her punishment be?
CIA Whore and MURDERER, Jami Rose. her photo, right here :)
www.flickr.com/photos/89268704@N08/8123854555/in/photostream
JamiRoseCIAWhore
jami rose cia whore all those people that she killed all that damage that she caused
JamiRoseCIAWhore
jami rose cia whore all those people that she killed all that damage that she caused
1)hurricane katrina
2)bp oil spill
3)japan tsunami
and many others in time.
raped. robed. murdered. dismembered.
never punished for her crimes
born on april 4 1980.
here you go :)
by entering in her information from date of birth here:
www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
you can monitor her information that is used by the world markets on a daily basis, not only that, but control for what is in numerical belief, thru out the us and the rest of the world.
She creates a natural order in time with her existance and by her date of birth, on a daily basis, weekly basis, yearly basis and in forward motion time placement. :)
Its also an Ordinance in time,
(but she's KILLING people in time. THOUSANDS of people,
and *thats* accepted. :) not anymore, huh, CIA Whore and MURDERER Jami Rose. :) not anymore :)
also,
www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=01&d1...
(The stasis of origin should show in the above link, like what is just listed below. why not tell people? :)
From and including: Saturday, January 1, 0001 (Julian calendar)
To, but not including : Friday, April 4, 1980 (Gregorian calendar)
It is 722,910 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date
Or 1979 years, 3 months, 3 days excluding the end date
Note:The From date is a Julian calendar date. The current Gregorian calendar was adopted in United States where Thursday, September 3, 1752 was the first of 11 days that were skipped. This has been accounted for in this calculation. Read more about the Julian and Gregorian calendars
Alternative time units
722,910 days can be converted to one of these units:
62,459,424,000 seconds
1,040,990,400 minutes
17,349,840 hours
103,272 weeks (rounded down)
if you need a little help to her "stasis of orgin" here you go. if you're not smart enough to know what a birthday does in time, its an active measure for which you create throught your life span. there, i said it. don't like that intelligent secret? millions people living, and not knowing that. how could anyone not know? :)
and all those people she killed. never punished
thomas warn varnas will make sure that happens, won't he?
you attempted two murders on his life at 143 Rue Esplanade and Villa Du Lac,
by channeling his dreams with tenants and parking cars outside of his residence, capturing him..
how does it feel now Jami, to know the same is happening
to you :)
:)
there you go :)
btw, did i channel her ill will and associations unknowingly, and did it kill alisa ferraro and paul gagnon in time, to?
to me, that warrants enough to blow her head off.
sorry. but thats the way i feel, at the moment
~peace
thomas :) (not smiling)
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The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), Barbary ape, or magot, is a species of macaque unique for its distribution outside Asia and for its vestigial tail. Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population that were introduced from Morocco to Gibraltar, the Barbary macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.
Skull and brain, as illustrated in Gervais' Histoire naturelle des mammifères.
The Barbary macaque is of particular interest because males play an atypical role in rearing young. Because of uncertain paternity, males are integral to raising all infants. Generally, Barbary macaques of all ages and sexes contribute in alloparental care of young.
Macaque diets consist primarily of plants and insects and they are found in a variety of habitats. Males live to a maximum of 25 years while females may live up to 30 years. Besides humans, they are the only free-living primates in Europe. Although the species is commonly referred to as the "Barbary ape", the Barbary macaque is actually a true monkey. Its name refers to the Barbary Coast of North West Africa.
Source: Wikipedia
Most everyone who knows me, is aware that I am one of those rare souls who actually LIKES Winter. I've had to re-evaluate my thinking -- it isn't "Winter" in itself that I like so much, but the lovely, clean, softness of SNOW -- as it's falling gracefully from the heavens or white-washing the earth's seasonal flaws on the ground or creating masterpieces of beauty in the trees and landscape.
No White Christmas in Dover, Vermont!!!??? Home of Olympic Gold Medal Champion Kelly Clark!!
So OK, then let's just skip Winter this year and move on to Spring. Here's a couple of pics of a Cutie-pie White-breasted Nuthatch from LAST Spring -- I added a bit of vignette, so the images weren't SO unseasonal looking. Bottom photo was taken 4 days ago after a mere dusting of the white stuff ----- Johnny Jump-ups in December!!! Go figure!
And "SOME" (notice I use no name calling tactics, even though it is fast approaching an election year) say Global Warming is a Myth!!! Go figure, again!!!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!