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Jenkins, Graham
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
Melbourne, Australia
 
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Graham Jenkins has an ME and a BSc from the University of Adelaide. He taught mathematics at Canberra Institute, then worked at Telstra Research Labs in Melbourne for a number of years before moving to Mayne Nickless as a systems manager for an integrated transport booking and billing application.

He moved subsequently to Cincinnati Bell Information Systems as a support specialist on telecommunications management systems, and later to a similar role with IBM Global Services Australia.

In more recent times, Graham has worked as a Linux specialist on high-performance computing systems at Monash University and at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing.

When he’s not at the keyboard, he can be found running with various groups around Melbourne in an ongoing battle to control his weight.

 
 
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   Cloud computing basics: a non-technical introduction
Lisdorf A., Apress, New York, NY, 2021. 208 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484269-20-6)

I was expecting to learn about cloud technologies like Xen/Citrix/VMware virtualization, Kubernetes clusters, and how to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)/Simple Storage Service (S3) compute/storage services. What I got instead wa...

Mar 22 2022  
   Beginning Perl programming: from novice to professional
Rothwell W., Apress, New York, NY, 2019. 224 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484250-54-9), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Perl 5 is a robust cross-platform language that has, as the author relates, been in use for more than two decades and become deeply embedded in the corporate information technology (IT) world. Most UNIX-based operating systems have a s...

Jun 29 2021  
   The art of high performance computing for computational science, vol. 1: techniques of speedup and parallelization for general purposes
Geshi M., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 219 pp.  Type: Book

This is the book I wish I had owned when I started supporting computational scientists a few years ago. It is revised and updated from a Japanese volume based on computational science lectures broadcast to a number of campuses through ...

May 12 2020  
   VoIP technology: applications and challenges
Chakraborty T., Misra I., Prasad R., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 239 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319955-93-3)

Many of us are familiar with voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology, having replaced our traditional landline telephones with VoIP phones connected through a data network. Modern routers are often equipped with analog sockets s...

Feb 18 2020  
   Distributed computing pearls
Taubenfeld G., Morgan&Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2018. 123 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-681733-48-7)

In computer science, the term “synchronization” can relate to coordination between processors or to contention. So I was expecting to find some program examples using the open message passing interface (OpenMPI) or ...

Feb 13 2019  
   Endless loop: the history of the BASIC programming language
Lorenzo M., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Philadelphia, PA, 2017. 190 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-974277-07-0)

Ada Lovelace is widely regarded as the world’s first computer programmer. Did you know that her father was the poet Lord Byron, or that he separated from her mother shortly after Ada was born? Her mother then promoted Ada&...

Jul 18 2018  
   Programming in HTML and PHP: coding for scientists and engineers
Brooks D., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2017. 293 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319569-72-7), Reviews: (2 of 2)

I recently wrote a Perl common gateway interface (CGI) program to display system status on a server running Nginx. This necessitated the installation of an fcgiwrap program to actually call the program, and it was then when I discovere...

Apr 25 2018  
   Classical Fortran: programming for engineering and scientific applications (2nd ed.)
Kupferschmid M., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2017. 576 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-138116-43-6), Reviews: (2 of 2)

My immediate question was: “What is Classical Fortran?” The author notes that most Fortran programmers use a rather small working Fortran vocabulary, and most of them use the same subset of statements. Based on my o...

Jan 19 2018  
   Introduction to computer networking
Robertazzi T., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2017. 154 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319531-02-1)

Gigabit Ethernet? That’s the same as fast Ethernet, with faster clock speeds, isn’t it? Actually it’s not; depending on the physical media, there may be differences in encoding schemes and signaling logic ...

Oct 12 2017  
   Designing user interfaces for an aging population
Johnson J., Finn K., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Cambridge, MA, 2017.  Type: Book (9780128044674)

Johnson and Finn observe that we are continuing to see increases in the number of people aged 50 or more; by 2035, the percentage of people in this category in more developed regions has been predicted to be 45 percent. These people ca...

Jul 18 2017  
 
 
 
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