Your software needs to leverage multiple cores handle thousands of users & terabytes of data & continue working in the face of both hardware & software failure Concurrency & parallelism are the keys & Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world See how emerging technologies such as actors & functional programming address issues with traditional threads & locks development Learn how to exploit the parallelism in your computer's GPU & leverage clusters of machines with Map Reduce & Stream Processing & do it all with the confidence that comes from using tools that help you write crystal clear high-quality code This book will show you how to exploit different parallel architectures to improve your code's performance scalability & resilience Learn about the perils of traditional threads & locks programming & how to overcome them through careful design & by working with the standard library See how actors enable software running on geographically distributed computers to collaborate handle failure & create systems that stay up 247365 Understand why shared mutable state is the enemy of robust concurrent code & see how functional programming together with technologies such as Software Transactional Memory (STM) & automatic parallelism help you tame it You'll learn about the untapped potential within every GPU & how GPGPU software can unleash it You'll see how to use Map Reduce to harness massive clusters to solve previously intractible problems & how in concert with Stream Processing big data can be tamed With an understanding of the strengths & weaknesses of each of the different models & hardware architectures you'll be empowered to tackle any problem with complete confidence What You Need The example code can be compiled & executed on nix OS X or Windows Instructions on how to download the supporting build systems are given in each chapter ...

Dancing On The Sun (Instrumental) See The Light (Dancing On The Sun Remix) Church Spliffs Dancing On The Sun (Bonus Version) ...

Tracklist A1 Sunday Morning (Kaytronik Ruff Kut Mix) A2 Sunday Morning (Kaytronik Love Break Dub) B1 Welcome Back (Yoruba Soul Mix) B2 Welcome Back (Yoruba Soul Inst) ...

School should be a safe place for Jess a refuge from her difficult home life
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Busy mum of twins Liv is looking forward to a week at the Beach Hut in Devon even if she feels that something's not right between her & Matt She's sure he's just too busy at work to join them on their summer holiday not that he wants time alone Baz loves having his family to stay by the sea but when an unexpected guest arrives he finds himself torn between the past & the future Still reeling from a break-up all Sofia wants is a quiet summer
- until she meets Baz & her plans are turned upside down She knows she's rushing into things but could this week at the Beach Hut be the start of something new? And back home Matt might be missing Liv & the children but when an old friend appears he finds himself distracted What does she know about his family's past that she's not letting on? As tensions rise over seven days in summer the lives of the holidaymakers begin to take an unexpected turn Praise for Marcia Willett'A beautifully woven tale of families & their secrets' Liz Fenwick bestselling author of THE CORNISH HOUSE'A genuine voice of our times' The Times' Riveting moving & utterly feel-good' Daily Mail' Sweeping powers of description transport her readers to another time & place' Rosanna Ley bestselling author of THE VILLA
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It's Sophia's last week in Tokyo & she's going to make it count Sophia has spent her life ping-ponging between different countries & schools so in theory saying goodbye should be easy But now she's leaving Tokyo
- the place that finally felt like home The only way she can get through this is to make her final week perfect Then Jamie Foster-Collins shows up just in time to ruin everything Jamie & Sophia used to be friends & his return stirs up feelings she thought she'd forgotten Suddenly hours & minutes become meaningless Only time spent together exploring the hidden streets of the city they love is real
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Ted Lyte amateur thief has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery But Haven House is no ordinary country home While hunting for silverware to steal Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean The search for the house's absent owners brings Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne where he finds more than one motive to stay & investigate Seven Dead is an atmospheric crime novel first published in 1939 ...

'I was 22 years old a hard-on with a pulse wretched vice-ridden too much to burn & not enough minutes in a hour to do so' The action begins in West Des Moines Iowa where Corey Taylor frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot & Stone Sour systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins He has picked fights with douche bags openly brandishing guns He has set himself on fire at parties & woken up in dumpsters after cocaine binges He lost his virginity at eleven He got rich & famous & immersed himself in booze women & chaos until one day he realised suddenly that he didn't need any of that at all Now updated with a brand new chapter Seven Deadly Sins is a brutally honest look at 'a life that could have gone horribly wrong at any turn' & the soul-searching & self-discovery it took to set it right ...

Featuring original painted art by Larry Elmore one of the most recognized & admired dragon artists in the fantasy industry today Seven Dragons is a fast-paced domino like game where players attempt to be the first to create a connected territory of seven panels of their dragon Secret goals add the opportunity to bluff & with aggressive action cards in the mix subterfuge is a necessity Age range 8 & up Number of players 2 Play time 5 to 10 minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD play in order to play A retiring cop & his replacement track a psychotic killer who&s using the seven deadly sins as a guide Starring Brad Pitt Morgan Freeman & Gwyneth Paltrow ...