Monthly Archives: October 2009

GPU programming – an upcoming alternative to NVIDIA?

AMD resp. ATI have announced that they support OpenCL for some of their latest cards. Although it appears that the prime targets of this “Stream Techology” are graphic applications other GPGPU applications can be coded (as long as they can

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Movie physics

During my last international flights I had the chance to see the latest “blockbusters” as well as some older movies.  On a nine hour lasting flight I am usually not very demanding and I watch whatever I can get. Some

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WeatherBug Add-on for Firefox

For those who like to have the local weather forecast being displayed inside Firefox I recommend using this nice add-on. It displays local weather conditions (one might argue that opening the window or just take a step out of the

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Running …

It is now almost middle of October and there’s still no mail from the organizer whether or not my name was drawn in the lottery. But since there’s not so much time to get into shape I have started preparing

Posted in sports

Changing the order when linking with a Jamfile

When you write a Jamfile and make use of the LINKLIBS variable, take care that the libraries are invoked as last parameters when the compiler is called. Here’s a short example from my current coding work C++ = “g++” ;

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Jam and C++

In order to compile C++ code with g++ it is necessary to include two additional lines in order to use the right compiler (not gcc). C++ =  “g++” ; LINK = “g++” ; After this things are working pretty much

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