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I am a graduate student at the University of the Philippines Diliman. I am doing research under the Algorithms and Complexity Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science. My field is Theoretical Computer Science and my areas of interest are Bioinformatics and Quantum Computing. My blog features posts on Computer Science in general, some of my results in Bioinformatics and Quantum Computing and some random posts on my views in life and faith.
Author Archives: Jeffrey A. Aborot
Pulling off an all nighter
I was able to finalize my tickets for my CS 239 requirements this sem. Tonight I will work on my thesis first then will move on to drafting my code for my parallel programming project in CS 239. This will … Continue reading
Tickets and more tickets
Now working on my Scrum board for my parallel programming class. I am trying out JetBrain’s free version of YouTrack for task management. As of now, I would say Jira’s task management is more intuitive to use and the user … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate students life, Random Stuff
Tagged agile, Atlassian, JetBrain, Jira, Scrum, YouTrack
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Hell weeks ahead
I have a project paper and presentation on parallel programming (using CUDA) due on two weeks from now and I haven’t started my project yet. Add to that I still need to prove the correctness of two algorithms for my … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Science, GPU computing, Graduate students life, Random Stuff
Tagged Computer Science, CUDA, graduate studies
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Testing our Scrum
I am now overseeing a new team of 3 people for a new project for testing a web application. Since this is a pretty small team I decided to use Scrum management in monitoring our tasks and so far things are going well. Continue reading
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A synthesis of the paper entitled “The future of supercomputing” by M. Snir, 2014
Introduction Marc Snir presented a high-level picture of the current status of technologies for supercomputing, the current challenges threatening the continuation of advancements in CMOS-based components and the possible tracks for coping up with such challenges in his talk outlined … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Science, GPU computing, Graduate students life
Tagged GPU, graduate studies, review
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A synthesis of the paper entitled “GPUs: a closer look” by K. Fatahalian and M. Houston, 2008
Introduction The authors of GPUs: a closer look [Fatahalian and Houston, 2008] provides the reader a high-level overview of the inner workings of a graphics processing unit (GPU) outlined as a computing pipeline. This pipeline is an interleaving of program … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Science, GPU computing, Graduate students life
Tagged GPU, graduate studies, review
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Some exciting new developments
Ever since I came to work at my first ever and still current workplace, our team has been more into developing information systems and sometimes enterprise resource planning software (ERP). This involves having working knowledge of the current technologies, methods, … Continue reading
Home is whenever I’m with you.
At last! I was able to go home to visit my parents for four days. Yesterday, Monday, was National Heroes Day so I booked my return flight for today, Tuesday. I was able to treat them to a movie which … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life, Random Stuff
Tagged Family, graduate studies, Palawan, vacation
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Masters thesis and parallel computing
I am currently taking a course on Parallel Computing this semester under Dr. F. Cabarle. The course will require programming on a graphics processing unit (GPU) using CUDA C by NVIDIA. It has been a while since I have written … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer Science, CUDA, GPU computing, graduate studies, NVIDIA, parallel computing
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Proof-of-Concept Requiring Service Bus Programming
Currently, our team is working on a prospect project which requires service bus programming. I am new to the concept of using a service bus for interoperability but I think it is a good way of decoupling heterogenous systems which … Continue reading
Musings of an Ever-Thinking Man 