Industrial Computing
compute.org.za ranks 2685 in Africa and 1661 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 2969, and 3034 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 4999 and 4909 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Compute is closing Wed 31 March 2010 Compute has been in operation now for almost 2.5 years It has 67 registered users and almost 1000 articles or comments. However, it has never got the kind of community recognition we had hoped for, and due to the fact
And now for something completely different - only it is not. ITWeb records more of the same-old-same-old ... (By Audra Mahlong, senior journalist, Johannesburg, 3 Mar 2010) Local technology companies can expect increased access to procurement opportunities as the Department of Science and Technology (DST) attempts to boost
ITWeb has "SA's second satellite delivers", By Farzana Rasool, ITWeb journalist, Johannesburg, 24 Feb 2010 Sumbandila Images [The Bridle Drift Dam in East London as pictured by Sumbandila, South Africa's second satellite.] Sumbandila Images [The CBD and harbour area in East
ITWeb By Paul Vecchiatto, ITWeb Cape Town correspondent, Cape Town, 23 Feb 2010 While the Department of Science and Technology's (DST's) budget has been increased to R4.6 billion from R4.2 billion, there has been a rigorous pruning of most of its major programmes, says Democratic Alliance shadow deputy
The Top 500 have published their results. The CHPC appears once again -> http://www.top500.org/site/history/3006 The following table shows previous lists and the number of systems installed when the list was published. Site Efficiency in the table is SUM(Rmax)/SUM(Rpeak), expressed as a percentage. List Systems Highest Ranking
computing (Written by Iain Thomson in San Francisco, 11 Feb 2010) Sonas system will scale to 14 petabytes IBM has introduced a network storage array based around its supercomputing platforms, and aimed at medium and large enterprises. The Scale Out Network Attached Storage (Sonas) system uses between one
Creating value by enhancing software engineering in the Western Cape Background to the Colloquium Enhancing software engineering in the Western Cape is essential if the region is to achieve its potential of becoming a world-class, global exporter of software and other ICT-related products and services. With this
Carl Sagan led me to review the existence proof of the 5 perfect Platonic solids as a schoolboy. Beautiful maths but completely useless - this theory caused self-inflicted confusion for thousands of years. Why is it relevant in a blog about computers and science? Well, the Not Even Wrong
According to one of the opposition parties South Africa does worse and worse every year in its ranking on benchmark indices. Now while I am sceptical of these indices, they are quite concerning. For example, if the developed world took its own medicine with regard to economic "reform" it
Here is an article from the IEEE discussing Certification and their the Certified Software Development Master / Professional / Associate program. Whether you agree with certification or not, included is a nice history.
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