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Research

Jump to: [Back to top] [Enterprise Power in the Media] [Power and Energy Metrics] [Meta: Research and Writing]

Enterprise Power in the Media

• JouleSort: "Benchmarking Energy Efficiency" [StorageMojo, 8/19/07]
• JouleSort: "Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers" [Slashdot, 8/21/07]
• "Chipmakers Admit: Your Power May Vary" [CNet News, 6/9/06]
• "Concern over gas guzzling software" [Reg Developer, 10/9/07]
• "Data center power efficiency -- the good, the bad and the way too hot" [Register, 8/24/07]
• "Efficient data centers make companies less green" [Register, 8/7/07]
• "Getting data centers to chill" [HPCWire, 6/29/07]
• "Google's Hard Drive Study on SATA Disks" [Remarketer, 2/23/07]
• "Hiding in plain sight, Google seeks more power" [New York Times, 6/14/06]
• "Hippy Geeks Threaten Supercomputing Masculinity" [Register, 11/17/06]
• "HP offers 3-D thermal mapping for data centers" [Register, 7/25/07]
• "HP researcher in power struggle" (about Partha!) [EETimes, 8/15/07]
• "HP turns green on data storage" [Register, 7/11/07]
• "IBM Goes Green With Big Green" [Register, 5/22/07]
• "Inefficient Ethernet Wastes Over $1bn a Year" [Register, 2/5/07]
• "It's Too Darn Hot" [BusinessWeek, 3/20/08]
• "Metric may point users to more energy-efficient servers" [LinuxWorld, 10/8/07]
• "Microsoft should buy Rackable" [Register, 6/20/07]
• "MIT joins effort for energy-efficient computing" [MIT press release]
• "Power Could Cost More Than Servers, Google Warns" [CNet News, 12/9/05]
• "Powering Down" [CIO Magazine, 4/15/06]
• "Power plays: How power consumption will shape the future of computing" [Ars Technica]
• "Power Struggle" [ComputerWorld, 4/3/06]
• "Reducing data center power consumption" [IT Management, 6/19/07]
• "Servers That Sip Power" [Express Computer, 7/3/06]
• "SNIA forms green coalition" [Register, 10/17/07]
• "SNIA offers green advice" [Register, 8/10/07]
• "Sun data center goes less power-crazy" [Register, 8/21/07]
• "Sun to set up data center in coal mine" [Techworld, 11/16/07]
• "Users to force green IT agenda" [Register, 7/20/07]

Power and Energy Metrics

• Climatesavers
• Evaluation of 105 power supplies (en français)
• EEMBC EnergyBench
• Energy Star computer standards, v. 4.0
• EPA Enterprise Server and Data Center Energy Initiatives (includes report to Congress)
• Green Grid data center efficiency metrics
• Sazeides et al, "The Danger of Interval-Based Power Efficiency Metrics: When Worst Is Best" [Computer Architecture Letters, 2005]
• "Intel tires of performance per watt chatter" [Register, 6/7/06]
• Laudon, "Performance/Watt: The New Server Focus" [Computer Architecture Letters, 11/2005]
• Davis, "Power benchmark strategy for systems employing power management" [Int'l Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, 1993]
• SPEC Power and Performance Committee
• SPEC Power's list of approved measurement devices
• "SPEC to release power efficiency benchmark suite" [Ars Technica, 5/18/06]
• Sun's SWaP (Space, Watts, Performance) metric [sun.com]

Meta: Research, Writing, etc.

Writing and Presenting

• "150 resources to help you write better, faster, and more persuasively" [oedb.org]
• David Patterson's writing advice [berkeley.edu]
• Diatribe about using "leverage" as a verb [incisive.nu]
• "How (and how not) to write a good systems paper" by Levin and Redell
• Jennifer Widom's technical writing tips [stanford.edu]
• "Three sins of authors in computer science and math" [cmu.edu]
• "Rock your presentation with the right tools and apps" [Lifehacker]
• "Giving an Academic Talk" [berkeley.edu]
• "The Art of Speaking" [Study Hacks]

Misc.

• Anatomy of an All-Nighter [UT Learning Center]
• Computer Science Reading List [regehr.org]
• Emotional Factors in Research [indiana.edu]
• Importance of Responsiveness [michaelhyatt.com]
• "Tech Talk Translated" [office-futures.com]
• "You and Your Research," by Richard Hamming [virginia.edu]

Tech Reference

Jump to: [Back to top] [Asynchronous and Direct I/O] [LaTeX and BibTeX] [Linux and Unix] [Mac] [Misc] [Web Design]

Asynchronous and Direct I/O   [Back to top]

• aio_return and aio_error specifications [opengroup.com]
• AIO fsync and suspend documentation [gnu.org]
• Asynchronous I/O completion example [informit.org]
• Direct I/O flags, alignment [redhat.org]
• SCSI direct IO support [torque.net]
• Direct I/O flags and alignment [titov.net]
• Linuxperf I/O benchmarks

LaTeX and BibTeX   [Back to top]

• BibTeX: Generating a Bibliography
• Embedding Type 1 fonts with pdflatex
• LaTeX Special Characters [agu.org]
• Sample LaTeX File [clarku.edu]

Linux/UNIX   [Back to top]

• Command history reuse in shell
• HP Array Configuration Utility CLI for Linux
• Fedora: "How to compile a kernel the Fedora way"
• Fedora: Installing Fedora on ReiserFS, JFS, or XFS
• Fedora: Installing Sun's JDK on Fedora 7
• Fedora/PAPI: Notes on installing perfctr on Fedora
• Fedora: Services in Fedora Core 6
• Fedora: SystemTap on Fedora 7 (gives command for installing kernel-debuginfo)
• Linux, clocks, and time [linuxforums.org]
• OProfile: FAQ (gives command for sampling every second)
• OProfile: Manual
• OProfile: Tutorial
• OProfile: Setting up
• perfmon: linux.perfmon.general archives [osdir.com]
• perfmon: Perfmon mailing list and archives [hp.com]
• rpm: Installing RPMs in Debian and Ubuntu
• rpm: RPM uninstall and dependency chains [linuxforums.org]
• Rsync for backup [Lifehacker]
• vi: VI Quick Reference [ungerhu.com]
• vi: Remove ^M characters in VI [techrecipes.com]
• "Where did all my disk space go?" [linuxreviews.org]
• "Which Linux version/build/distro am I running?"

Mac   [Back to top]

• "Activate all Exposé modes from the aluminum keyboard" [macosxhints]
• Copy CDs and DVDs
• "Create a keyboard shortcut for any menu action in any program" [Lifehacker]
• Creating a lean Adobe Reader installation [Macworld blogs]
• CVS on Mac OS X [apple.com]
• Firefox keyboard shortcuts on OS X [mozilla.org]
• Guide for switching to a Mac [Lifehacker]
• How to burn ISO images [macosxhints]
• How to clean a glossy Mac screen [zdnet]
• How to Clean a White Macbook [Macworld forums]
• How to Clean Your White Macbook [freemacblog]
• Killer Mac OS X apps for 2007 [Marc Andreessen]
• Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [danrodney.com]
• Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [silvermac.com]
• Mac OS X Keyboard Accent Codes [psu.edu]
• Mac software: Default Folder X
• Mac software: Mail.Appetizer plugin
• Mac software: Quicksilver: "Getting started (or reacquainted) with Quicksilver" [43folders]
• Mac software: Quicksilver: Beginner's Guide [Lifehacker]
• Mac software: Quicksilver User's Guide [pdf]
• Mac software: "Quicksilver Plug-ins" (describes Mail.app plugin interface in detail)
• Mac software: R
• Mac software: Texshop
• Mac software: How to back up Things
• Recommended Mac Software [Charles Sutton]
• "Running the Mac OS X maintenance scripts" [The X Lab]
• Samples of Mac optical drive sounds [apple.com]
• Speed up Apple Mail [danwarne.com]
• Sips - command-line image manipulation tool [apple.com]
• Taking screenshots in Mac OS X [macrumors]
• Ten OS X Command Line Utilities You Might Not Know [OS X Daily]

Misc   [Back to top]

• "Top 10 Alternative Search Engines" [Lifehacker]
• Emacs: Emacs Cygwin Customizations [khngai.com]
• Emacs: Xemacs Quick Reference [une.edu.au]
• Error Propagation and Uncertainties [rit.edu]
• Firefox: cleaning up pdfs left on desktop
• Google: "Google Syntax Dissected" [sudarmuthu.com]
• Google: "Top 10 Google products you forgot all about" [Lifehacker]
• Jim Loy's Math Page
• MATLAB Documentation
• Matplotlib Documentation
• MS Office: MS Word Keyboard Shortcuts [internet4classrooms.com]
• MS Office: Lightweight Data Exploration in Excel
• MS Office: Tutorial: Pivot tables in Excel [Lifehacker]
• MS Office: Steps for de-uglifying Excel's charts
• MS Office: Use Excel to make a timeline [Lifehacker]
• Perl: Parsing command line options
• Perl: Parsing config files
• Nature wallpaper images [msdn.com]
• Thunderbird: Keyboard shortcuts [mozilla.org]
• WebCT documentation [SacState]
• Windows Process Library

Web Design   [Back to top]

• 20 CSS Tips and Tricks [petefreitag.com]
• ColorMatch Palette Selection [frogrun.com]
• Colr.org Color Scheme Selector
• Free website templates
• Top 10 CSS Tricks [sitepoint.com]
• Typography Crash Course Roundup [particletree.com]
• XHTML Special Characters

Career and Professional

Academic Careers

Job Ads

• HigherEdJobs postings: [EE/ECE] [CE] [CS]
• ACM and IEEE job sites
• Chronicle Careers and job search [Chronicle of Higher Ed]
• Computing Research Association (CRA) jobs
• Faculty for the Future (diversity)

Advice and Resources

• Tao Xie and Yuan Xie's Advice Collection -- also file under "Research" [ncsu.edu]
• "The academic interview, revisited" [Chronicle Careers]
• "Catalyst" column [Chronicle of Higher Ed]
• CS Faculty Job Resources [upenn.edu]
• Rachel Pottinger's CS job hunting resources [ubc.ca]
• California employee salary search
• E-Application Etiquette [Chronicle Careers]
• Grad student career guides [Stanford CDC]
• "How would you teach this class?" [Chronicle Careers]
• "On the Academic Interview Circuit: An End-to-End Discussion" by Ugur Centintemel [SIGMOD Record]
• Tomorrow's Professor Archives [stanford.edu]
• Web US Higher Education (list of universities and community colleges) [utexas.edu]
• Advice on Scholar Websites [Chronicle of Higher Ed]

Professional Groups and Lecture Series

• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
• IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Committee
• IEEE Potentials Magazine
• IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB)
• IEEE Women in Engineering (WiE) Committee
• IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section and San Francisco Section
• Stanford Computer Systems Lab (CSL) Colloquium
• Stanford Mechanical Engineering Women's Group
• Stanford Women in Electrical Engineering (WEE)
• Women in Computer Architecture (WicArch) Group

SSU

• Cheating and plagiarism policy
• Disability Services resources for faculty and staff
• How to access voicemail
• SSU campus recreation
• SSU dining
• Web standards

Women's Issues/Education Issues

• "The Cost of Being a Woman in Science" [Pharyngula]
• Faculty diversity reports for top science/engineering departments [ou.edu]
• Richard Felder's Resources in Science and Engineering Education [ncsu.edu]
• Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning's TA Workshops
• Statistics on Female STEM Faculty [stanford.edu]
• CRA Taulbee Surveys
• "Using women in science blogs to encourage girls in science" [fairerscience.org]
• "Wears Jump Suit. Sensible Shoes. Uses Husband's Last Name." by Deborah Tannen [georgetown.edu]

Personal

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Bay Area

• "36 Hours in Berkeley" [NY Times]
• Bay Area Hikes [bahiker.com]
• "San Francisco - Alleys for Cool Cats" [NY Times]
• Best Bay Area Getaways [SF Chronicle]
• Life in Berkeley [tophe.net]
• Napa and Sonoma Winery Reviews [awineryreview.com]
• San Francisco City Guides (free walking tours)
• Theatre Bay Area
• Walk Score ("neighborhood walkability" ratings)
• Westlake: "America's Most Perfect Ticky-Tacky Suburb" [Part 1] [Part 2]
• Westlake on Flickr
• Westlake: Surreal Suburb

Commute Audio

• Audio resource list [Frugal for Life]
• SpanishPod101 archives [odeo]

Travel

• Airport Wireless Internet Guide [travelpost.com]
• "The Hidden Gardens of Paris" [NYT]
• Joe Sent Me business travel site
• SeatGuru airplane seating guide
• TimeAndDate: time zone conversion, international dialing, and more
• Map quiz [lizardpoint.com]

Food

• Banh guide
• Favorite Thai Brands
• "Cooking 101: 20 Lessons to Kick Start Your Cooking Skill" [lifehack.org]
• "How to Substitute Missing Ingredients" [ehow.com]
• Recipe: Balsamic Bloody Mary recipe [televisionwithoutpity.com]
• Recipe: Latkes [epicurean.com]

Friends and Family

• Manda and Harshal's wedding page
• Liz and Mike's wedding page
• Raag and Vinita's wedding page
• Allison
• Chuck's wedding page
• Kelley and Kelley's pictures

Humor

• The crackpot checklist [ucr.edu]
• Graduate Student Emotion Checklist [greenspun.com]
• How to criticize computer scientists [purdue.edu]
• How to write a scientific paper
• The perfect exam [Crooked Timber]
• LOLcode spec
• Burnout Prevention and Recovery [mit.edu]
• "Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8" [The Onion]
• The Stephen Colbert On Notice Generator
• xkcd: Exploits of a Mom

Language and Literature

• Chinese: Serge Melnyk's Mandarin Chinese Lessons
• Chinese: Drill on numbers
• Cyrillic pronunciation guide
• Common Errors in English Usage [wsu.edu]
• Dr. Grammar FAQs [drgrammar.org]
• FSI Language Courses
• Learning Languages
• Online Language Dictionary (English, French, Spanish, Italian) [wordreference.com]
• Proust e-Books [adelaide.edu.au]
• "Proust Regained" by Daniel Mark Epstein [newcriterion.com]
• Representative Poetry Online [utoronto.ca]
• "10 Typographic Mistakes Everyone Makes"
• Works by Euripides on the Internet Classics Archive [mit.edu]

Money

• "The cheapest days to buy certain items" [SmartMoney.com]

Music

• Bottom of the Hill Concert Calendar
• Cafe du Nord & Swedish American Hall Concert Calendars
• Fillmore Concert Calendar
• Great American Music Hall Concert Calendar
• Mezzanine Concert Calendar
• Metacritic Music
• Slim's Concert Calendar
• SF Venue Capacities
• SF music blog: The Deli SF
• SF music blog: The Bay Bridged
• My page on SonicLiving