Joel Pobar

Joel Pobar's Weblog I was reminiscing recently about the good ‘ol days tinkering with computers: Commodore 64’s, GWBASIC, Turbo Pascal 5.0, DOOM and the Autoexect.bat config.sys hacking required to get it running on underprivileged 486’s, Amiga 500’s, brok... (more)

Joel Pobar's Weblog On to part two in the series on The World's Eight Most Excellent Software Adventures. In this episode, we talk about scalability in the massive sense – à la Google style. Thousands of commodity machines, connected and waiting for your algorithm and data ... (more)

Joel Pobar's Weblog If we believe that dual/quad/octa/n-tuple cores + cache scaling + internals advancements is going to be the default way that processors are expected to scale, we must adjust the software appropriately to scale with it. When you start to think about how to solv... (more)