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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.    

Previously, I wrote how to open multiple instances of Safari and Firefox (here). However, the procedure won’t work for the newer versions of Firefox. So, we need a workaround. Here is the solution. Save the following script to the location … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I have started using the NCAR Command Language (NCL). To my opinion it is indeed a great tool to process data in geoscience and automate batch processing. Quite recently, couple of my friends asked me … Continue reading →