HPC News and Articles

The Ethereum cryptocurrency system lets you build programs into the blockchain to orchestrate complex transactions and document results. We'll show you how to get started with Ethereum's smart contracts.

We explore some machine learning techniques with a simple missing person app.

Linux and the BOINC distributed computing platform help researchers fight the COVID-19 virus.

As regular expressions grow in complexity, regex generators can make the job easier by computing the patterns for you.

Exploring the new Python match statement, Python's implementation of switch/case.

TLS encryption is wonderful if it is running over a reliable transport protocol like TCP; but if your needs call for the less reliable UDP transport, you'd better start learning about DTLS.

If you wanted to assign a flavor to the Quicksort algorithm, it would be sweet and sour. Sweet, because it is very elegant; sour, because typical implementations sometimes leave more questions than they answer.

Linux and science are a natural fit. These are a handful of essential software packages both for getting work done and presenting it to others.

How do you find a process running on a Linux system by start time? The question sounds trivial, but the answer is trickier than it first appears.

Shell scripts are often written for simplicity rather than efficiency. A closer look at the processes can lead to easy optimization.