[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred Tennyson
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: 'Forward, the Light Brigade Charge for the guns' he said Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. 'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldiers knew Some one had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turned in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them Left of six hundred. When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wonder'd. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!
notes from the ASPLOS 2008 poster session
Here's a short list of posters from the ASPLOS '08 combined opening reception and poster session that I found particularly interesting.
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Yesterday I did the touristy thing and visited the space needle, science fiction museum and other nearby attractions. The best part of the day was the awesome Seattle Duck Ride. Unfortunately, my camera's batteries decided enough is enough just as we boarded the duck, so you get a picture of the space needle instead.
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The plan for today is to get some work done, visit the Seattle Aquarium and otherwise have fun. ASPLOS begins tonight! For the curious, our ASPLOS paper is now online.
SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Special Issue on Research and Developments in the Linux Kernel The Linux kernel, since its inception in 1991, has captured the interest of many thousands of developers and millions of users. It recently celebrated its 16th anniversary, includes many millions of lines of code, and is used in production systems around the world. It is also advancing at an increasingly rapid pace, undergoing many changes every single day. For this OSR special issue, we welcome technical papers covering the latest advances that have been or will soon be merged into the Linux kernel, as well as wild idea papers discussing promising experimental work. In recognition of the current chasm that we wish to bridge, we encourage papers from both the Linux kernel community and the research community. The OSR issue aims to: a) expose members of the Linux kernel community to exploratory research work that is going on which might influence Linux's evolution, and b) expose members of the systems research community to the latest happenings in a mature, production kernel that is widely used and advancing rapidly. Please submit papers related to all aspects of the Linux kernel. In particular, papers are solicited for the the following areas: * Virtualization * I/O, networking and interconnects * Support for multi-core and heterogeneous CPUs * Co-existence with other operating systems * filesystems, clustering, SSI * Profiling, performance tuning, debugging * Scaling up (e.g., supercomputers) and down (e.g., embedded devices) * Experience reports * Research directions Submissions should be between 5 and 10 pages (in a font no smaller than 10 pt). Standard SIGOPS formatting rules apply (see http://www.sigops.org/osr.html). Papers should report on significant new results or directions and include at least some material that has not been published before. Papers will be reviewed by the guest editors and the review committee. Accepted papers will be published in the July 2008 issue of Operating Systems Review. Please upload your submissions (in PDF format only) to the submissions website, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=osrlk2008. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors. Important dates: Submission deadline: March 14th, 2008 Author notification: April 18th, 2008 Camera-ready submission deadline: May 13th, 2008 OSR guest editors: * Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Haifa Research Lab <muli@il.ibm.com> * Eric Van Hensbergen, IBM Austin Research Lab <bergevan@us.ibm.com> * Marc E. Fiuczynski, Princeton University <mef@cs.princeton.edu> Review committee: * Patrick Bridges (University of New Mexico) * Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto) * Hubertus Franke (IBM Research) * Oren Laadan (Columbia University) * Paul McKenney (IBM Linux Technology Center) * Chris Mason (Oracle) * Ron Minnich (Los Alamos National Laboratory) * Stephen C. Tweedie (Red Hat) * Chris Wright (Red Hat) * Pete Wyckoff (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
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