December 2009
11 posts
The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind ‘Avatar’ →
Thirty four racks comprise the computing core, made of 32 machines each with 40,000 processors and 104 terabytes of memory.
For the last month or more of production those 40,000 processors were handling 7 or 8 gigabytes of data per second, running 24 hours a day. A final copy of Avatar equated to 17.28 gigabytes per minute of storage.
The AI Systems of Left 4 Dead →
A semi-technical look at the AI systems behind L4D.
Star Wars Weather Forecast →
Compare your cities weather to the climate of various Star Wars Planets
ack: better than grep, a power search tool for... →
Which would you rather type?
$ grep pattern $(find . -type f | grep -v '\.svn')
$ ack pattern
$ grep pattern $(find . -name '*.pl' -or -name '*.pm'
-or -name '*.pod' | grep -v .svn)
$ ack --perl pattern
Google Integrates 'Page Speed' Into Webmaster... →
Google Site Performance, now available as part of Webmaster Tools Labs, analyzes your website and provides data on the average load time, graphs out how your site has improved or slowed down over time, generates reports on specific pages, and most of all, offers suggestions for speeding up your website.
Part of the new Site Performance area of the Webmaster Tools is a list of suggestions...