Multimedia
Multimedia is media that utilizes a combination of different content forms.
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IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) is an open community application server based on the Apache Geronimo open source application server. Learn how to install the WAS CE V1.x...
In the ongoing efforts to squeeze every possible performance improvement out of their computing rig, most folks focus almost exclusively on the two heavy hitters in their system when it comes to...
This article explores the ideas behind multiprocessing and developing applications for Linux that exploit SMP. As evidenced by major CPU vendors, multi-core processors are poised to dominate the...
This study concerns the development of a little video game. It's modeled on a game my family enjoyed in the 1980's called Lode Runner. We would sometimes play it by the hour, having a good time and...
WAVE File Format is a file format for storing digital audio (waveform) data. It supports a variety of bit resolutions, sample rates, and channels of audio. This format is very popular upon IBM PC...
The Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA) is unique in the sense that it consists of a powerful SMT PowerPC core with special auxiliary SIMD processing units. Each of these units are called...
Achieve a level of high reliability in a microprocessor system by adding a second identical processor to a system to monitor and verify the system processor operation -- also known as the lockstep...
The Mac mini is an ideal low-cost, high-performance PowerPC development platform for numerous applications. Learn how to install and configure Linux on the mini. Future articles will add the software...
Each of the leading microprocessor manufacturers has announced
the availability of one or more 64-bit desktop processors, but
differences exist in architectural design, fabrication,
support,...
IBM PowerPC 970 CPUs are well-designed, high-performance chips
that ship in millions of end-user systems under Apple
Computers' Power Macintosh G5 moniker. These CPUs greatly lower
the bar for...
Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) has been around in Intel chipsets for a while but until recently was not affordable for the average user. The use of more than one CPU - a term that somewhat lacks...
There are many reasons to omit integer division from the instruction set of a computer. In the early days of computing, the cost of this hardware was a dominant factor, and it still dominates in the...
