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Here are a couple great photos (courtesy of
Joris Robijn)
from the NIWeek 2007 keynote*, which show LabVIEW's response to the
multicore
crisis:
The photo on the left shows two quotes, describing the industry's concern with
the state of parallel software:
"To fully exploit the power of processors working in parallel… new
software must deal with the problem [...]
Software developers and technologists everywhere are beginning to discuss the
looming "multicore crisis". In a nutshell, this crisis stems from the
fact that
processors
are no longer getting faster due to heat issues; they are just getting
cheaper, so, we're putting more of them in a single computer. Today's
multicore processors look like a single chip, but actually have [...]
I noticed today, that in the
Electrical
& Electronics section of Amazon.com,
"LabVIEW for Everyone" was ranked
#37, just ahead of
"The
Technology of Orgasm".
If we're doing better than sex, we're doing alright
This is another article in a series showing some of my favorite
OpenG VIs --
"The
OpenG VIs that I couldn't live without". In this article, I'm going to show
a very useful tool called the Locate File in Project, which gives you an
easy way of finding VIs in the Project Explorer.
If you have this tool installed, it will [...]
One of the stars of NIWeek 2007 was a
10 year old wiz kid named Samuel Majors, who is using LabVIEW to
automate his model train sets. Samuel was featured during a part of the
keynote on Thursday, August 9th titled "Future Scientists and
Engineers"
(see
[...]
As an April fools day joke this year, I posted a VI on LAVA that shows an implementation of a Functional Global that appears to not have any While Loop or For Loop around the Feedback Node. This trick was accomplished by making the While Loop very large (extending beyond the visible region of the […]
I have just set up an RSS feed of all the comments on “Thinking in G” to make it easier for everyone to participate in the lively discussions that follow the articles.
And, I’d like to take this moment to give a big “thank you” to all the readers of Thinking in G — especially those […]
One the reasons that NIWeek 2007 was the Best NIWeek Ever was that during the NIWeek 2007 Alliance Day keynote, NI showed a slide called “The LabVIEW Community Online” (shown above) which included JKI’s logo! This slide displayed the logos of various LabVIEW community websites, including discussion forums, blogs, etc. I was extremely […]
This year’s NIWeek T-shirt was so small that it came vacuum-sealed in a 1″x3″x6″ (approximate) package. Honestly, when I first saw it, I had no idea that it was a t-shirt — it looked more like a marshmallow sandwich.
In order to compress a t-shirt into that small of a package, it […]