Posted on March 2 2010 Read more...

Visit to HPCA-PPoPP 2010 at IISc

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="HPCA-PPoPP 2010 Inauguration"][/caption] The HPCA-PPoPP conference (Jan 9th-14th 2010) held at IISc was memorable experience that I would ever forget. I thought of posting this blog post for a long while, but my pipeline was full all the time making this low priority process starve for this long. Getting back to the subject, "Fun" was peeking out even at the start of the ...
Posted on October 31 2009 Read more...

Some simple questions with complex answers…

You might have heard these spiritual questions, that kindle's one's thoughts like: Who am I? What am I here for? These questions are simple, indeed, Who am I? I am Venkatanathan ... No, though the questions are simple but, they require some complex answers, they need immense brainstorming .. all are completely logical. Let me get you through these thoughts, with some simple set of questions with ...
Posted on October 17 2009 Read more...

The strong intangible bonding…

At last the much awaited TOUCHiE :P ... My mom does lot of pooja and collects the flowers offered to Gods. She and hence I believe that the flowers reach the Gods when it is offered to the ocean god, "Samudra Rajan".  So, I take mom to beach for fulfilling that rite.  You might be wondering why I am telling all these? Just for fun, I ...
Posted on October 16 2009 Read more...

My way of How to Crack GRE

Before going into the details, I am obliged to inform my blog readers on what was keeping me away from posting.. I was in the second battle with ETS regarding GRE. First battle was disastrous and resulted in a sinking 430 in verbal and 790 in quants. I was told that there is something called LUCK that had defined my future! You know something? I went ...
Posted on August 23 2009 Read more...

Installing NS2 in simple 5 steps

Step 1: Download the source for NS2 all in one (I used this version ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz ) from the link http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/files/ Step 2: Extract the tar.gz file downloaded into your home folder by right-clicking the tag.gz file Step 3: Open terminal (Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal) and change the directory (using cd command) to the extracted folder and execute the following: sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev This will install the dependencies required ...
Posted on August 21 2009 Read more...

Use the snake, to solve a problem

[TECHiE] Programming with Python: When I was stuck on what programming language is best suited for a project, my lecturer instructed me, “Why don’t you use Python?”, I went “Huh?” and then “What? Python?” Most of us are familiar with the word C, C++, Java, etc. the common parlance of a Computer Engineer but, “Python”? Many are hardly aware of this very powerful programming language, without which, ...
Posted on August 14 2009 Read more...

Reason, Purpose and Me

Once, I was a person for whom blogging was a waste of time and used to think, "Don't you people have any other useful work to do?". But, recently, I got to read some blogs and found out that it was used as a medium to express your thoughts and feelings as well as a platform for sharing information and experience. Whether it may be personal ...