Dr Niklaus Wirth’s pioneering work on languages like Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon are shining examples of simplicity and elegance. In a recent lecture in California, this path-breaker voiced his disapproval for the unwieldy nature of today’s programming languages and called for a return to the basics.
A decade ago, the Beowulf project revolutionized High Performance Computing (HPC). At that time, the strategy of every high performance computing vendor was to pump up and protect the astronomical prices charged for each gain in perceived performance. Fortunately, Moore’s law works in just the opposite way: greater performance means lower cost. This paradox has everything to do with manufacturers like Intel and AMD being able to make denser and better circuits at cheaper and cheaper costs. It is this commoditization of hardware that drives HPC today.
Tux is hoisting anchor and setting sail for the new world of digital movie making. Linux is at the helm of new animated adventures like Dreamworks Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and jaw-dropping special effects in many other films.
New technologies push Linux into the enterprise as the community strives to preserve the basics.
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