• Programming related links lists of languages, mostly free but oddly high performance programming tools and arcana compilers
• Imaging technologies includes 3D libraries, visualization toolkits, 2D image processing libraries, image capture libraries, related techniques, etc.
• Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition
• Embedded systems, platforms, and tools
• Backup and mass storage apps
  • SystemImager is software that automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment.
  • Unattended project is a system for fully automating the installation of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003; it has many useful features
  • PartImage for Linux is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for example), ... Partitions can be saved across the network since version 0.6.0.
  • AMANDA the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive
  • Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) Project has the goal of providing unparalleled flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. It represents a new approach to logical volume management for Linux. The architecture introduces a plug-in model that allows for easy expansion and customization of various levels of volume management.
  • RAID and Data Protection solutions for Linux has many fine and useful links on topic
  • Some useful RAID benchmarking
  • Nice discussion on Linux disk performance issues
• Technical projects, tutorials and explorations
• Asterisk Telephony project
• Benchmarking tools and techniques
• Data acquisition
• Data compression
• Data mining and text retrieval
• Digital video
• Disk and storage performance
• Linux related
  • Keithley KPCI-1801HC Data Acq.card device driver
  • Scion Corp. AG-5 Integrating frame grabber device driver
• OpenGL
• PC Memory, PCI and other data busses
• VTK (Visualization Tool Kit) apps and materials
• X11/XWindow programming
• XVideo explorations
• Interesting and excellent applications of computer science
  • General-Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware
    The Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) on many modern display cards are often capable of better performance than their host processor; check out this site for some truly interesting and novel applications for these amazing chips...
  • Tesseract page on GPGPU
  • Special Topics in GPU programming and architecture from UPenn
  • GPGPU: Beyond Graphics paper from nVidia is quite interesting
  • Cg is another nVidia technology useful as "...the best way to take advantage of today's GPUs across multiple platforms and APIs. Now supporting OpenGL's ARB_vertex_program and ARB_fragment_program extensions, the compiler allows developers to create advanced visual effects for today's programmable GPUs from NVIDIA and other vendors."
  • Cg Toolkit (nVidia again!) provides a compiler for the Cg language, runtime libraries for use with both leading graphics APIs, runtime libraries for CgFX, example applications, and extensive documentation.
  • Robotics
    • See Tesseract page on Robotics
  • Signal/sound processing
    • DSP Source code archive located on MusicDSP.org

  • CPU Native parallel execution units, also known as SIMD processing on a chip
    • SIMD Within A Register (e.g., using MMX) (in case this moves, you can generally track this document down via Google as "Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO"
    • Parallel Processing Architectures Using PCs & Linux tutorial
    • Using MMX with the GNU-tools (e.g. under Linux or FreeBSD)
    • SIMD Instruction Sets comparing MMX, SSE, SSE2, AltiVec, etc.
    • Introduction to the Streaming SIMD Extensions in the Pentium III: Part
    • SSE performance programming from a fruity computer company

Some friendly vendors

• Vision Identics Supplier of frame buffer, camera, lenses, and related systems
• Oasis Computer Graphics An excellent Web and graphics/multimedia design house

• Coreco Imaging (formerly ITI) Makers of image processing equipment, including pipelined image processors
• CMU Image Processing code with lots of good stuff

• Visual Numerics Inc., makers of PVWave numerics package
• Intel Performance Libraries for all kinds of useful DSP and IP code

• Beowulf project cluster computing
• Scyld Computing Don Becker's next-generation Beowulf group

• Berkeley DB Open Source database toolkit
• PostgreSQL Open Source SQL database system with transactions
• MySQL Open Source SQL database system

• Sony SRX Industrial Robots (Formerly Sony Factory Automation) (in Japanese)

• GNU GCC Compiler suite....thanks RMS
• SGI STL programming page
• www.perl.org The Perl home page
• tcl.activestate.com The ActiveState home for tcl and tk
• XML info that is quite useful
• X11 and Motif Code and techniques info

• w3c guidelines on internationalization for the web
• Useful notes on internationlization of web content

• World of Mathematics at Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica
• Nanotechnology as suggested by Richard Feynman lecture and other interesting tidbits by A Smart Guy
• Cognitive mish-mosh and such...
  • Everything2.org; another set of interesting notions, worthwhile...
• Neurological investigations - the ultimate in computation...
  • Allen Brain Atlas...thanks, Paul Allen, for doing great things with your dollars.....