Value-driven quality management for complex systems: Six strategies for reducing cost and risk
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2011-
Focusing on best practices that can deliver a positive return provides a way to separate practices that will deliver tangible business results from merely interesting ideas. Moreover, this paper will explore how you can further justify investments by potentially delivering savings that are bigger than the sum of the individual returns.
Driving systems engineering value through trade studies
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2011-
This trade study shows not only a robust technique with modeling and SysML, but it also provides a methodology that enables users to properly explore the design space with executionanalysis—all from within the design model, something that was oftenmissing from previous techniques around trade study analysis.
Retaining Your IT Staff
[ Source: IntaPeople ]
November 2010-
At a time when many owners are just as happy sustaining business growth as they are increasing it, holding on to key IT talent should be a top priority. The cost of failing to hold on to these staff members can be enormous, especially considering the specialist knowledge often acquired by IT workers over the course of their employment. It is not unusual for incentives to be focused mainly around the sales team, but it ...
Cloud Staffing and IT Outsourcing Evolution
[ Source: Software and Web Development Company Acceptic ]
September 2010-
The article, presented by Acceptic, deals with cloud staffing as a more mature approach to world outsourcing practices. The features revealed in the article explain the pros of cloud staffing against conventional outsourcing.
AMD Core Math Library (ACML) Offers Math Routines
[ Source: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ]
November 2006-
ACML provides a free set of thoroughly optimized and threaded math routines for HPC, scientific, engineering, and related compute-intensive applications. ACML is ideal for weather modeling, computational fluid dynamics, financial analysis, oil and gas applications, and more. ACML consists of the following main components: a full implementation of Level 1, 2. and 3 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (BLAS), with key routines optimized for high performance on AMD Opteron processors; a full suite of Linear Algebra (LAPACK) routines; taking ...
OpenCL Optimization Case Study: Diagonal Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication
[ Source: AMD ]
May 2010-
This article discusses performance optimizations for AMD GPUs and CPUs using as a case study a simple, yet widely used computationally intensive kernel: Diagonal Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication. The optimization report is provided by AMD.
UML For Objective-C
[ Source: Excel Software ]
January 2009-
Objective-C is a popular programming language for Mac OS X computers. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the industry standard notation for modeling object-oriented software. This paper shows how to model Objective-C software using UML.
UML For C#
[ Source: Excel Software ]
January 2009-
C# is a modern object-oriented language for application development. In addition to object-oriented constructs, C# supports component-oriented programming with properties, methods, and events.
UML For REALbasic
[ Source: Excel Software ]
May 2010-
REALbasic is an object-oriented programming language for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux computers. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the industry standard notation for modeling object-oriented software. This paper shows how to extract a UML design from a REALbasic project, model REALbasic software using UML, and generate REALbasic code from UML. Furthermore, it lays the foundation for a code translation project to or from REALbasic, Objective- C, Java, Delphi, C#, C++, or any other ...
Schneider Electric Improves Product Quality While Saving Over 2,500 Engineering Hours with Coverity
[ Source: Coverity ]
January 2010-
Schneider Electric (Schneider) is a global leader in energy management, developing solutions to make energy safe, reliable, efficient, and productive from plant to plug.
Schneider Electric has adopted Coverity to improve product quality and software integrity while reducing development costs and re-focusing resources on innovation, benefits which have been realized within the development organization, across the company, and supported at the highest level within Schneider Electric management.
“We run the analysis ...