One of the more obscure, yet immensely useful features of C++ are member pointers. Member pointers can be used as parameters to specify on which member of an object a funtion should operate. Theoretically they can be used with CUDA code, but there are a couple of issues in NVCC and it's not obvious how to work around these. More »
Anyone who's on high-volume mailing lists knows this problem: some threads are irrelevant for you, but grow by tens or hundreds of mails each day. Incrementally archiving them in mutt is quick, but tedious. Google's Gmail has a mute feature for these threads. mutt did not, so I wrote a patch. More »
VMWare modules 279.3 don't work out of the box with Linux 4.1.3. I've collected a patch set which gets them to compile on my Gentoo systems. More »
Kurzer Post zur Flüchtlingsdebatte in Deutschland, genauer: zur Frage, welches Land wie viele aufnehmen kann. More »
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Frustrated by vmware-modules-279.2 not emerging on your Gentoo box? Fear naught! It's just a question of collecting the right set of patches. More »
The Message Passing Interface, or MPI (not to be confused with the Max Planck Institutes), is in the peculiar situation of being one of the most widely used technologies in HPC and supercomputing, despite being declared dead since decades. Lately however, my nose is picking up some smells which are troubling me. And others. More »
48003. That's the number. Although I might be wrong, as I've just counted those users who have a couple of friends and who haven't set their profile to private. More »
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