ACM Queue, Volume 6

Volume 6, Number 1, January/February 2008 (EE)

Virtualization - Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Poisonous Programmers. 5-6

Interview

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  John Stanik:
  A Conversation with Jason Hoffman. 7-13

Q focus: virtualization

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  Tom Killalea:
  Meet the Virts. 14-18
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  Werner Vogels:
  Beyond Server Consolidation. 20-26
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  Ulrich Drepper:
  The Cost of Virtualization. 28-35
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  Scott Rixner:
  Network Virtualization: Breaking the Performance Barrier. 36-

Features

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  Peter Kriens:
  How OSGi Changed My Life. 44-51

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  All Things Being Equal? 56-

Volume 6, Number 2, March/April 2008

GPU Computing - From the editors

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  James Maurer:
  Going Digital. 7

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Latency and Livelocks. 8-10

Interview

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  John Stanik:
  A Conversation with Kurt Akeley and Pat Hanrahan. 11-17

Q focus: GPUs

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  Kayvon Fatahalian, Mike Houston:
  GPUs: A Closer Look. 18-28
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  Chas. Boyd:
  Data-Parallel Computing. 30-39
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  John Nickolls, Ian Buck, Michael Garland, Kevin Skadron:
  Scalable Parallel Programming with CUDA. 40-53
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  William Mark:
  Future Graphics Architectures. 54-64

Book reviews

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  Howard Whitston:
  Review of "Essential RenderMan by Ian Stephenson, " Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 2007, ISBN 1846283442. 66
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  Jose M. Ramirez:
  Review of "Enterprise Ajax: Strategies for Building High-performance Web Applications by David Johnson, Alexei White, and Andre Charland, " Prentice Hall PTR, 2007, ISBN 0132242060. 66

Calendar

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  John Stanik:
  Calendar. 68

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Solomon's Sword Beats Occam's Razor. 72-

Volume 6, Number 3, May/June 2008

Object-Relational Mapping From the editors

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  James Maurer:
  A New Era. 7

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  The Virtue of Paranoia. 7-8

Interview

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  Terry Coatta:
  A Conversation with Erik Meijer and Jose Blakeley. 9-15

Q focus: Object-Relational Mapping

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  Craig Russell:
  Bridging the Object-Relational Divide. 18-28
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  Chris Richardson:
  ORM in Dynamic Languages. 28-37
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  Michael Keith, Randy Stafford:
  Exposing the ORM Cache. 38-47

Features

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  Dan Pritchett:
  BASE: An Acid Alternative. 48-55
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  Eric Allman:
  A Tribute to Jim Gray. 56-57
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  Donna Carnes:
  Ode to a Sailor. 58-62
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  Jim Gray:
  Distributed Computing Economics. 63-68

Book reviews

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  Harry J. Foxwell:
  Review of "The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor" (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series) David Chisnall, Prentice Hall PTR, 2007, ISBN 013234971X. 69
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  Jeffrey Putnam:
  Review of "Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC" Stewart Smith and Michael Still, Apress, 2007, ISBN 1590597796. 69

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  There's a Lot of It About. 72-

Volume 6, Number 4, July/August 2008

Enterprise Flash Storage Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Sizing Your System. 6-7

Interview

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  John Stanik:
  A Conversation with Steve Bourne, Eric Allman, and Bryan Cantrill. 8-15

Q focus: Flash Storage

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  Bryan Cantrill:
  A Pioneer's Flash of Insight. 16-17
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  Jim Gray, Bob Fitzgerald:
  Flash Disk Opportunity for Server Applications. 18-23
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  Adam Leventhal:
  Flash Storage Today. 24-30
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  Mark Moshayedi, Patrick Wilkison:
  Enterprise SSDs. 32-39
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  Goetz Graefe:
  The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later: and How Flash Memory Changes the Rules. 40-52

Book reviews

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  Annika Hinze:
  Review of "RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka", Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007, ISBN 0321480791. 53
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  David B. Henderson:
  Review of "Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat (Advances in Information Security) by Wenke Lee, Cliff Wang, David Dagon", Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2007, ISBN 0387687661. 53

Calendar

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  John Stanik:
  Calendar. 54

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  The Fabrication of Reality. 56-58

Volume 6, Number 5, September 2008

The Concurrency Problem Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Beautiful Code Exists, if You Know Where to Look. 4-7

Interview

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  John Stanik:
  A Conversation with Steve Bourne, Eric Allman, and Bryan Cantrill. 8-15

Q focus: Concurrency

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  Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Bonwick:
  Real-World Concurrency. 16-25
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  Jim Larson:
  Erlang for Concurrent Programming. 18-23
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  Ulrich Drepper:
  Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory. 38-45

Features

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  Calin Cascaval, Colin Blundell, Maged M. Michael, Harold W. Cain, Peng Wu, Stefanie Chiras, Siddhartha Chatterjee:
  Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only a Research Toy? 46-58

Book reviews

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  David Naugler:
  Review of "Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5 (2nd ed.), " Apress, 2008, ISBN 1590599551. 59
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  David G. Hill:
  Review of "Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield (1st ed.), " IBM Press, 2008, ISBN 0137130120. 59

Calendar

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  John Stanik:
  Calendar. 60

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Affine Romance. 61-63

Volume 6, Number 6, October 2008

Scalable Web Services Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Get Real about Realtime. 6-9

Q focus: Scalable Web Services

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  Tom Killalea:
  Building Scalable Web Services. 10-13
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  Werner Vogels:
  Eventually Consistent. 14-19
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  Tom Leighton:
  Improving Performance on the Internet. 20-29
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  Steve Souders:
  High Performance Web Sites. 30-37

CTO Roundtable

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  Steve Bourne:
  CTO Roundtable STORAGE. 38-45

Features

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  Erik Wilde, Robert J. Glushko:
  XML Fever. 46-53

Book reviews

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  Markus Wolf:
  Concurrent and Real-time Programming in Ada (3rd edition) Alan Burns, Andy Wellings, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780521866972. 54
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  J. Miller:
  Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect (1st edition) Jaroslav Tulach, Apress, 2008, ISBN 9781430209737. 54

Calendar

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  John Stanik:
  Calendar. 55

Volume 6, Number 7, November/December 2008

Game Development Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Debugging Devices. 6-9

Q focus: game development

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  Jim Waldo:
  Scaling in Games & Virtual Worlds. 10-16
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  Walker M. White, Christoph Koch, Johannes Gehrke, Alan J. Demers:
  Better Scripts, Better Games. 18-25

Feature

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Code Spelunking Redux. 26-33

CTO roundtable storage

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  Mache Creeger:
  CTO Roundtable Storage: Part Two. 34-40

Book reviews

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  David Naugler:
  Review of "Pro LINQ Object Relational Mapping in C# 2008 by Vijay Mehta, " Apress, 2008, ISBN 9781590599655. 41
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  David Bellin:
  Review of "The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez, " Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007, ISBN 9780321445612. 41

Calendar

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  John Stanik:
  Calendar. 42