Editorial
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
The Media Grid
[author : Aaron E. Walsh]
The Media Grid is a digital media network infrastructure and software development platform based on distributed grid technology.
Parallel Processing Clusters & PVM
[author : David J. Powers]
The Parallel Virtual Machine is network-clustering software that provides a scalable network for parallel processing.
Debugging Heterogeneous Distributed Applications
[author : Stephen B. Jenkins]
Debugging complex, asynchronous, heterogeneous, distributed applications is hard. The techniques Stephen presents here makes the process easier.
Building Internet Distributed Computing Systems
[author : Charles Peck, Joshua Hursey, Josh McCoy, & Vijay Pande]
Our authors present a framework for harnessing distributed, tightly coupled cluster and SMP resources for computational science research.
InfiniBand Technology
[author : Corky Seeber]
InfiniBand is a serial I/O interconnect architecture designed to connect hundreds—if not thousands—of computers.
Building Internet Distributed Computing Applications
[author : David Houlding]
Protege is a tool that lets you efficiently map out an Enterprise Architecture to enable knowledge mining for analysis and planning.
Linux Kernel Debugging
[author : Dean A. Gereaux]
Dean explains how to debug drivers with Linux Kernel Debugger, add hooks into KDB from your drivers, and create KDB modules.
Improving Search Precision Using Google Desktop Search 1.0
[author : Lawrence Reeve]
The Google Desktop Search SDK lets you build plug-ins for extending Google's Desktop Search local indexing and search service.
Functional Programming in Java
[author : Mark Zander]
Generic Java lets you extend the language to gain some of the advantages of functional programming languages.
The CustomTreeView ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control
[author : Shahram Khosravi]
CustomTreeView is a server control derived from the ASP.NET 2.0 TreeView server control that is used to display hierarchical data.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Java & RFID Tags
[author : Shamshad Ansari]
The Java Communication API lets you send commands to and receive responses from RFID readers such as the TI S2000 Micro Reader.
COLUMNS
Programming Paradigms
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael mulls over the concept of the technological imperative.
Embedded Space
[author : Ed Nisley]
Lego Mindstorms provides a stepping stone into the world of robotics.
Chaos Manor
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
SIGGRAPH, the ACM's Special Interest Group on Graphics, is one of the key places to observe computer trends.
Programmer's Bookshelf
[author : Gregory V. Wilson]
Greg's reading list includes books on everything from software vulnerability and regular expressions to XML and Perl.
FORUM
Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner
[author : Dennis E. Shasha]
News & Views
[author : DDJ Staff]
Pragmatic Exceptions
[author : Benjamin Booth]
Of Interest
[author : DDJ Staff]
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]