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Computer Professionals Take Note :

http://books.elsevier.com/companions/defaultindividual.asp?isbn=9780123704900

Computer Architecture, 4th Edition
A Quantitative Approach

By John L. Hennessy, Stanford University;
and David A. Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
704 pages 244 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-12-370490-0

This is an important text in modern computer science and should be considered mandatory study material for anyone in the IT industry today. It carefully and clearly explains to the reader how we have left the high speed uniprocessor computer behind us forever and we are now in the age of thread-level parallelism ( TLP ) and data-level parallelism (DLP ) via multiple processor cores per chip. The struggle for superior software and computer engineering lay firmly in the hands of those scientists that will allow us to utilize massively parallel computer systems like the recent Sun Niagara T2.

Robert Colwell, Intel lead designer has this to say :
“If Neil Armstrong offers to give you a tour of the lunar module, or Tiger Woods asks you to go play golf with him, you should do it. When Hennessy and Patterson offer to lead you on a tour of where computer architecture is going, they call it Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition. You need one. Tours leave on the hour.”

The era of the single processor computer is of historical interest only, please visit the publishers site to order a copy of the future vision.

› › Order “Computer Architecture, 4th Edition, A Quantitative Approach” ‹ ‹

n.b.: Blastwave.org is not affiliated with Elsevier Inc. in any way.

Stable Release 2008-04 : James Lee has released 1,680 software packages from the stable tree.

We are pleased to announce that the 2008-04 stable release has been delivered.

Please see Special Instructions and Details at Stable Release Announcement

Most Recent Software Releases from Blastwave

  This release list is updated throughout the day because there are
  many people working simultaneously within the Blastwave build stack.
  Any software package released today may not yet have arrived at all
  mirror sites. Please expect that the mirror sites need 12 to 24 hours
  to be in sync with the master Blastwave site.

Most Recently Released Software Packages @ Sat May 17 10:01:00 EDT 2008
Date Package Filename ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 15 01:04 ved-1.7a06,REV=2008.04.29-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 smake-1.2a42,REV=2008.04.29-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 postgresqlcontrib-8.3.1,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 postgresql-8.3.1,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 png-1.2.29,REV=2008.05.08-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 pm_x11protocol-0.56,REV=2008.05.12-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_zlib-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_pgsql-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_openssl-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_odbc-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_mysql-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_mssql-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_mcal-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_mbstring-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_ldap-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_imap-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_iconv-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_gettext-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_gd-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz May 15 01:04 php4_domxml-4.4.8,REV=2008.05.02-SunOS5.8-%ARCH%-CSW.pkg.gz

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What is Blastwave.org ?

Blastwave is a software service for Solaris x86 and Solaris Sparc users

Blastwave is a collective effort to create a set of binary packages of free software, that can be automatically installed to a Solaris computer (sparc or x86 based) over the network. Blastwave has a substantial build server farm for the use of the software developers and maintainers in the Solaris community. All software is built and tested in a standardized build environment using Sun ONE Studio 8, Sun ONE Studio 10, Studio 11 tools as well as GCC.

      There are currently 1803 software packages in standard SVR4 package format
      ready to use and easily installed with “pkg-get”. Please see the “crontab list”
      for the most recent 400 software packages released. The list is updated often.

      The software is delivered in the form of two “branches” of package files. There is
      the “unstable” branch and the “stable” branch. As one would expect the packages in the
      “unstable” branch change quite often. New software is added and updates are released
      continuously. The “stable” tree also exists and it changes once per quarter year at most.
      Each of these branches contains the same list of software packages for Solaris™ on
      either UltraSparc™ or the x86/AMD64 architectures.

      The current branch sizes in bytes are thus :

3943090156 bytes in unstable branch for sparc
3759484597 bytes in stable branch for sparc
3698299909 bytes in unstable branch for x86 & AMD64
3513327303 bytes in stable branch for x86 & AMD64

Last update was at Sat May 17 06:00:03 EDT 2008

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Currently Available Packages

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Actual pkgadd type names are not shown in the above list.

When using pkg-get, you will deal with the more human-readable names seen in the leftmost column of the description list in the above link. However, you can easily identify blastwave.org packages in "pkginfo" output, because they always start with "CSW". Additionally, if you click on a specific package in the above page, it will tell you the pkgadd name if you really need to know it.



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