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Usenix Keynote   July 11, 2008 This was one of the keynote talks from Usenix 2008. Interesting keynote, talking about how computers aren't getting significantly faster anymore, they're just adding more cores. So, we'll need to be able to handle parallel programming, if we want to gain any benefits from all the cores. New programs could be written to see benefits, but the ones most people use now, will not. I don't agree with all the points in the talk, but the fact that the hardware is going in this direction is indisputable. Note that the Usenix sketches are actually sketches in pencil, so they were scanned in grayscale, which kind of looks...different...sketchy, if you will.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.

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