Yocto is an open source project from the Linux Foundation that builds custom Linux distributions. It is supported by some of the big names in the computing scene, such as Intel. The build uses an LD_PRELOAD tool called Pseudo (pronounced like ‘sudo’) to simulate root user privileges
Read more →
Top marks to the EPCC for coming a close second in the LINPACK HPC challenge this year. The Edinburgh team secured Best in Europe after beating the German team and were just 0.1Tflops behind first place, overcoming a number of challenges that thwarted the other teams. We
Read more →
We have used our trace visualisation expertise and some of the features of Breeze to make a visualisation engine for the popular open-source system tracer, strace. Now students and not-for-profit organisations can use our holistic system-overview graphs for free. sViz processes the system calls gathered with straces
Read more →
Last month Wired magazine featured a who’s who of Cambridge entrepreneurs. Our CEO had the pleasure of accompanying many other successful business men and women in the local tech scene for a historic photograph in the Fitz museum in Cambridge. There are now over 1,500 technology companies,
Read more →
Spring is finally here and our office plant is obviously as excited about the ARM-as-a-service cloud as we are. Someone bet us that we’d never get it to flower, but once again, we win! The trick is to cut some holes in the bottom of the bag
Read more →