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Image sourced from Glassdoor Nutanix, a leader in software for private, hybrid and multicloud computing, recently assisted two Computer Science honours students from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, with the provision of the infrastructure needed to support the completion of their final honours practical.  The students, Brooke Stewart and Christina Spanellis, were given access to an Ubuntu Virtual machine with 3 8 Intel Xeon Gold 6254 CPUs @ 3.10GHz. and 32GB RAM from Nutanix Labs on which to run their project titled “Evolving Robot Bodies and Brains – a Computer Scienc...

“Our project had unforeseen challenges. One of which was the fact that we needed to extend the capabilities of the simulator for us to be able to run our revolutions,” said Stewart. “Another challenge was that we needed to run our computationally expensive, lengthier simulations on a high-performance computing cluster. “However, our project code was in C++, meaning it needs to be compiled where one intends to run it. In short, our project had multiple dependencies and required multiple external libraries, when all added together it means that the process itself would be an exceptional...

Last modified on Fri 19 Mar 2021 20.51 EDT Jonathon Herbert is a software developer who enjoyed working with computers as a kid using programming languages such as BASIC to play around with and build video games. Years later, he put that hobby aside in favour of an MA in history at Bristol University. Then, Jonathon realised he wasn’t keen on a career in academia, so returned to his first love: computers. How did you make the switch to software development? At the time, I was looking at things like Code Academy and other documentation online; nothing too complicated, but it was enough to be...

The Value of JSON Values A deep dive into JSON. by Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.Join For Free This article introduces json-values, a pure functional Java library to work with JSON. In this first article, we'll see some impressive recursive data structures to model essential concepts in software development like data validation, data generation, and parsers.  The first and most important virtue of json-values is that JSON objects are immutable and implemented with persistent data structures, better known in FP jargon as values. As Pat Hellan said, immutability ...

Transactional Effects in Scala by Introduction This post was inspired by a StackOverflow answer for the question Compose Futures with Recovery in Scala: Is it possible to compose Futures in a manner where, if one of them fails, a previous Future's execution result will be rolled back via some function? The Problem F[_], so we can say: How can we compose effects F[_] in a manner where, if one of them fails, the previous F[_] execution result will be rolled back via some function? This behavior is similar to what we know as a Transaction. Solution cats-effect version Scala ...