RSS Digest: Week Ending 31-Aug-2012

Java

Java 7 Update 7 and Java 6 Update 35 have released!
https://blogs.oracle.com/javase/entry/java_7_update_7_and

Arithmetic Overflow and Intrinsics
http://bad-concurrency.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/arithmetic-overflow-and-intrinsics.html

Check Your Java Basics I
http://pathtose.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/check-your-java-basics-i.html

Technology

Under the Armor of Knights Corner: Intel MIC Architecture at Hotchips 2012
http://communities.intel.com/community/datastack/blog/2012/08/30/knights-corner-at-hot-chips-24

Vectorising code to take advantage of modern CPUs (AVX and SSE)
http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=3378

Video: A Low-Latency Library in FPGA Hardware for High-Frequency Trading
http://insidehpc.com/2012/08/23/video-a-low-latency-library-in-fpga-hardware-for-high-frequency-trading/