Multithreading paradigms: windows and *nix

Before we visit this topic, let us go off-topic for a bit: let us examine the CFS scheduler (part of the Linux GIT tree after 2.6.22) and the round robin Windows scheduler. The Ingo Molnar developed CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler – inspired by Con Kolivas’ SD scheduler) maintains a RB-Tree of “wait_runtime”. When a task’s [...]

And then there was light…

This is so freaking cool that I couldnt stay away from posting it – it has the potential to change the way energy is consumed. I am more excited about this, because in a semi-developed country like India, there are countless miles of public areas that are unlighted because of want of energy. Moreover due [...]

Kansas just went bye-bye

Its been more than a week, and I got the heart to post this now. I have moved away from Calypto… and EDA (in my daily work routine atleast). I have moved to a new hush-hush company working with grid computing and distributed systems. And what’s more…. I am working on the Windows platform. Mind [...]