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Parallelizing loops in MATLAB – Nested parfor

Posted on April 11, 2015 by mabouali

parallelizing a loop in MATLAB could be as easy as changing: to However, you can not have nested parfor in matlab. So, the following will NOT work: An easy work around is to combine these two loops into one loop … Continue reading →

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Clearing Memory Cache

Posted on October 9, 2013 by mabouali

Ubuntu caches the memory. While that could be useful in some cases, it could cause problem in other cases. You can clear the cache using the following command sync && echo 3 | tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Make sure that you have … Continue reading →

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Interpolation Extrapolation and Curve-Fitting using higher order polynomial

Posted on May 7, 2013 by mabouali

There are numerous cases that you want to transfer data from one location (source grid) onto another locations (destination grid). Let’s say you have measured the concentration of some pollutants along the river every 1km from the river mouth. Now … Continue reading →

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C, CUDA-C, and MATLAB interface to CUDA-C implementation of SEBS are available for public download now.

Posted on November 26, 2012 by mabouali

Finally, I uploaded the code and an example on how to use the code on code.google.com. You can access the C, CUDA-C, and MATLAB interface to CUDA-C. I am going to add some more documentation. Just one note on MATLAB … Continue reading →

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slow network connection on Ubuntu

Posted on October 27, 2012 by mabouali

I recently got a new PC with ASUS mainboard. I installed both Windows and Ubuntu 11.10. Everything was fine except that on Ubuntu, the connection was slow, quite often disconnected, downloads from the Internet were halted without being completed or they were … Continue reading →

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exFAT for your USB Flash Drives

Posted on October 27, 2012 by mabouali

It is not that uncommon to use multiple different operating systems. I personally use Mac, Linux, and for some applications also Windows. In these situations it is not uncommon that you want to transfer file between different computers with different … Continue reading →

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Animating Graphic Files

Posted on September 23, 2012 by mabouali

If you are doing any numerical simulation or modeling, it happens quite often that you want to show a series of your solution snapshots one after each other to make an animation on how the solution is evolving. There are different … Continue reading →

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New Timing on CUDA-C SEBS

Posted on September 14, 2012 by mabouali

Last summer, I attended the GPU Technology Conference (GTC2012) in San Jose, CA (click here for the home page of the conference). NVIDIA provided some of us with a GeForce GTX480 with 1.5GB memory. This GPU has 480 cores on it. It … Continue reading →

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Installing CUDA Under Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on May 29, 2012 by mabouali

Well, I wanted to write something on this topic; but noticed that almost what I wanted to write is already available here. So enjoy it.    

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@ Attribute in MAC OSX and files being in use showing in gray

Posted on May 3, 2012 by mabouali

It happens sometimes that you want to open a file and the finder tells you: Oopsy, can’t do that. This file is being used. (well, of course in much more professional wording). You wonder, what program is using it? and … Continue reading →

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