16 March 2015

DataCentred World First: OpenStack Public Cloud on 64-bit ARM servers

05 December 2014

27 November 2014

DragonFly BSD 4.0 - released (now 64-bit only)

DragonFly BSD 4.0 has been released and goes 64-bit only.

DragonFly BSD 4.0

Isn't it time that all OSs ditch 32-bit? :-)

02 September 2014

MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives

MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8457/mips-strikes-back-64bit-warrior-i6400-architecture-arrives

12 August 2014

A couple of ARM 64-bit links

AMD Details “Seattle” ARM Server Chip

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/08/11/amd-details-seattle-arm-server-chip/


Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for Android

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/08/11/tegra-k1-denver-64-bit-for-android/

13 May 2014

Testing Chromium: ThreadSanitizer v2, a next-gen data race detector

ThreadSanitizer and AddressSanitizer are very interesting new tools for helping with locationing and squashing many classes of bugs. They are first class tools and are very fast.

Testing Chromium: ThreadSanitizer v2, a next-gen data race detector


See also:
Valgrind
GCC 4.8.x changes

26 March 2014

Solaris Studio 12.4 beta - refreshed

Really interesting update to the Solaris Studio compiler suite.
It looks like it might have lots of new C++11 support & upgrades to the performance analyser, code analyser and OpenMP 4.0 support, and updated debugger and IDE.

What's New in the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4 Beta

Update:

A refreshed beta was released, update 14th July release.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solarisstudio/overview/index.html