List of Journals/DDJ/407

Highlights:

Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award: The recipient of this year's Dr. Dobb's award is Bjarne Stroustrup, for his work on developing C++. link ... and an interview here. A bit of history and a good dose of pragmatism.
Optimizing Math-Intensive Applications with Fixed-Point Arithmetic. link .... Some people are still working on embedded systems where floating point is not really an option.
Fast String Search on Multicore Processors: Mapping fundamental algorithms onto parallel hardware. link .... Using Cell processors to filter strings (identifying virii, malware) at 10 to 40 Gbps vs 200 to 400 Mbps for a Pentium 4. Imagine what your PlayStation could do for you
CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 1 link .... Using GPU for general computation. Looks more friendly than Cg but still requires a fair amount of work to get running. NVidia CUDA Programming Guide has a nice graph showing evolution in GFLOPS of CPU vs GPU.