RSS Digest: Week Ending 16-Mar-2012

Java

Top1 Java Book Recommendation: Thinking in Java
http://www.asjava.com/core-java/java-book-recommendations-top-and-best-java-books/

JDK 8 backported ConcurrentHashMaps in Infinispan
http://planet.jboss.org/post/jdk_8_backported_concurrenthashmaps_in_infinispan

Save Memory by Using String Intern in Java
http://blog.codecentric.de/en/2012/03/save-memory-by-using-string-intern-in-java/

Java Memory Management
https://book.dynatrace.com/content/memory/how-garbage-collection-works.aspx

Technology

Video: MPI – Overview, Performance Optimizations, and Tuning
http://insidehpc.com/2012/03/13/video-communications-mpi-overview-performance-optimizations-and-tuning/

Intel Xeon E5 review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/processors/373600/intel-xeon-e5