Samsung DLP and the "white dots" issue
When Heather and I got married back in October 2006, some of our friends gave us a very generous wedding gift: a Samsung 46-inch DLP high-definition television. We use it pretty much every day that we are at home (it’s even on in the background while I write this post). Unfortunately, early October the TV started having a problem. It developed a small white dot in the upper left hand part of the screen. Then a second dot, and a third, and so on. Over the course of the following two months the TV screen developed dots on a substantial fraction of the screen, as you can see from the picture below:
MPI_C_BOOL officially 1 byte in external32 representation
A very minor announcement, the errata ticket for the size of MPI_C_BOOL in the external32 representation has been passed: https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/171
MPI-2.2 Is Now Official
Earlier today (~11am GMT+3) the MPI Forum ratified the final PDF of the MPI Standard Version 2.2. Other than a “No” vote from NEC the vote was unanimous in favor of accepting it. As I mentioned before this version of the MPI Standard contains many clarifications and corrections as well as several new features. The Change-Log (Annex B) contains a concise list of the relevant functionality changes.
[...]Off To Helsinki
Tomorrow I’m headed to Helsinki, Finland for a couple of weeks to attend the next MPI Forum meeting and EuroPVM/MPI 2009. Although I’m unsure how productive the Forum meeting will be because many participants cannot attend this particular meeting, it should be a noteworthy meeting. Barring any unforeseen problems we should ratify the new version of the MPI Standard, MPI-2.2. This version of the document corrects many problems with the 2.1 Standard and adds several new features. I could list them all here but Torsten has done a pretty good job of it already, so I’ll send you over to his post on the matter.
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