Computer simulation, programming, software, technology, research, and more (since 2007)
On June 30, Wind River (my job) released Simics 5, the latest version of Simics. I have been working with Simics since 2002 now, and the tool is still improving, adding new features, and adopting the current world. The announcement blog post provides an overview of the features of the new release, and we will be doing some additional in-depth posts later on.
While I was on vacation, Wind River published a blog post I wrote about the new multicore accelerator feature of Simics 5. The post has some details on what we did, and some of the things we learnt about simulation performance.
I followed-up on my visit to the Bovington Tank Museum in the UK with a visit to the Swedish equivalent, Arsenalen in Strängnäs. It is about 100 km from Stockholm, and thus less far off than the UK variant. Arsenalen is strictly speaking a “vehicle” museum, not just a tank museum, even though a majority of the vehicles on display are indeed tanks or at least armored vehicles.
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Last week, I visited the rather wonderful tank museum (http://www.tankmuseum.org/home) at Bovington in England, UK. Fascinating, and I am happy to have seem so many legendary machines for real.