Free upc software for linux

UPC LiveCD is a UPC-enabled Linux operating system on a CD-ROM disc. It runs directly from the CD without installing. I created it to demonstrate UPC programming on the SC2005 conference.
With UPC LiveCD, you can try out UPC programming without the need of a multiprocessor environment. UPC LiveCD boots your laptop or workstation from a CD-ROM and runs in the memory only.
It does not have any side effects to the installed system on your computer. UPC LiveCD is based on the SLAX project. The current release contains demo versions of MuPC V1.1.2 and GCC UPC V3.4.4.1.
How to use:
- Burn the image on a blank CD.
- Read the README on the CD.
- Boot your computer from the CD. You may need to modify your BIOS settings to set CD-ROM as the first boot device.
- The system loads and starts KDE automatically. MuPC and GCC UPC are ready to use.
- When you are done, logout. The CD automatically ejects.

Unified Parallel C, in short UPC, is an extension of the C programming language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines.

The language provides a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware.

The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be directly read and written by any processor, but each variable is physically associated with a single processor.

UPC uses a Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) model of computation in which the amount of parallelism is fixed at program startup time, typically with a single thread of execution per processor.

Whats New in This Release:

- Add initial native support for the Cray XT3 via new portals network
- Implement the GASP 1.5 performance instrumentation interface, supporting the
Parallel Performance Wizard (PPW) and other third-party profiling tools.
- Add bupc_ticks_to_ns() - finer granularity timer query
- Add the Berkeley implementations of the UPC collectives and UPC-IO to GCCUPC+UPCR
- Add most of the Berkeley UPC library extensions to GCCUPC+UPCR
- Add upcdecl command-line tool (also online at: http://upc.lbl.gov/upcdecl)
- Add support for alloca() and stdarg.h
- Performance improvements to the BUPC semaphore library for signalling store
- Add bupc_thread_distance() - runtime thread layout query for hierarchical systems
- Add a remote fetch-and-add UPC library extension (initially just for 64-bit ints)
- Allow configure-time tuning of bit distribution in packed pointer-to-shared rep
- Fix the following notable bugs in 2.2.2 (see http://upc-bugs.lbl.gov for details):
- bug525: optimizer crashes on Tru64/CompaqC for libgasnet
- bug1229: More robust preprocessing on Compaq C
- bug1389: ansi-aliasing violations on small local put/get copies
- bug1531: improved lock fairness to remote lock requests
- bug1594: timer inaccuracies on Cray X1E
- bug1645: preprocess-time failure Backslash found where operator expected
- bug1657: PACKAGE_* symbols exposed to UPC code on GCCUPC+UPCR
- bug1683: improve upcrun handling of -shared-heap-max
- bug 1743: More robust behavior when backend C compiler changes
- Improved SRV-based DNS failover for upcc HTTP translation
- Add gzip compression to HTTP netcompile, for faster compiles over slow links
- Improved robustness for SSH netcompile to handle stray output from dotfiles
- Numerous misc minor bug fixes

CueAct is a small userspace utility that takes advantage of the Linux CueCat driver.
Its purpose is to exploit barcodes read by a CueCat reader, and decoded by the CueCat driver, by performing an action of interest associated with the barcode swiped (the most obvious being to link a barcode with a suitable database to look up in no time the information relevant to that barcode).
Compiling and installing
In the source directory, simply type ./make : the "cueact", "upce2upca" and "xautotype" binaries should be created without problem, the software being very simple and portable. Then, type ./make install as root to install the them in /usr/local/bin.
Enhancements:
- Deprecated the dcdb utility, as it is now useless since DigitalConvergences database has disappeared.
- Changed the sample configuration file so that it calls Mozilla instead of Netscape, and changed the UPC database used from barpoint.com back to upcdatabase.com.

Class::DBI::ConceptSearch is a Perl module to retrieve Class::DBI aggregates from high-level conceptual searches.

SYNOPSIS

my $cs = Class::DBI::ConceptSearch->new(xml => $config); #see CONFIGURATION
$cs->use_wildcards(1);
$cs->use_implicit_wildcards(1);
$cs->use_search_ilike(1);
$cs->use_search_lower(1);

my(@tracks) = $cs->search( albums => Britney );

Given the example Class::DBI classes (Music::CD, Music::Artist, Music::Track), lets add another one, Music::Dbxref, which contains external database accessions outside our control. Music::Dbxref includes things like UPC IDs, ASIN and ISBN numbers, vendor and manufacturer part numbers, person IDs (for artists), etc.

Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript is an award-winning open source project, as used by NASA, that facilitates the printing of all major barcode symbologies entirely within level 2 PostScript.
Hence the process of generating a printed barcode representing a given input is performed entirely within the printer (or print system) so that it is no longer the responsibility of your application or a library.
There is no need for any barcode fonts and the flexibility gained by using direct PostScript allows you to avoid re-implementing barcode generator code, or migrating to new libraries, whenever your project language needs change.
Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript project makes including any barcode within a PostScript document as simple as inserting the following directive:
(1-86074-271) (includetext) isbn barcode
The project generates all of the major types of one-dimensional barcode supported by the vast majority of barcode scanners.
The current list of supported symbologies includes: EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-5 & EAN-2 (EAN/UPC add-ons), ISBN (including ISBN-13), Code 128 (A, B & C, including EAN-128), Code 39 Extended, Code 93 Extended, Interleaved 2 of 5 (including ITF-14), Code 2 of 5, Codabar, MSI, Plessey, PostNet, Royal Mail (RM4SCC), FIM symbols.
This list is growing all the time. If it doesnt contain the format you are looking for then make a request via the mailing list and check back soon.
Since this resource is written in PostScript and interpretted within the virtual machine of a printer it is compatible with virtually any operating system and hardware platform, for example Windows 95/XP on i386, Mac OS X/Linux on Power PC, Solaris on SPARC, and OpenVMS on Alpha AXP.
Enhancements:
- Support for the MaxiCode 2D barcode was added.

Net::Amazon is a framework for accessing amazon.com via REST.

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Amazon;

my $ua = Net::Amazon->new(token => YOUR_AMZN_TOKEN);

# Get a request object
my $response = $ua->search(asin => 0201360683);

if($response->is_success()) {
print $response->as_string(), "n";
} else {
print "Error: ", $response->message(), "n";
}

ABSTRACT

Net::Amazon provides an object-oriented interface to amazon.coms
REST interface. This way its possible to create applications
using Amazons vast amount of data via a functional interface, without
having to worry about the underlying communication mechanism.

Net::Amazon works very much like LWP: First you define a useragent like

my $ua = Net::Amazon->new(
token => YOUR_AMZN_TOKEN,
max_pages => 3,
);

which you pass your personal amazon developers token (can be obtained from http://amazon.com/soap) and (optionally) the maximum number of result pages the agent is going to request from Amazon in case all results dont fit on a single page (typically holding 20 items). Note that each new page requires a minimum delay of 1 second to comply with Amazons one-query-per-second policy.

According to the different search methods on Amazon, theres a bunch of different request types in Net::Amazon. The user agents convenience method search() triggers different request objects, depending on which parameters you pass to it:

$ua->search(asin => "0201360683")
The asin parameter has Net::Amazon search for an item with the specified ASIN. If the specified value is an arrayref instead of a single scalar, like in
$ua->search(asin => ["0201360683", "0596005083"])
then a search for multiple ASINs is performed, returning a list of results.
$ua->search(actor => "Adam Sandler")
The actor parameter has the user agent search for items created by the specified actor. Can return many results.
$ua->search(artist => "Rolling Stones")
The artist parameter has the user agent search for items created by the specified artist. Can return many results.
$ua->search(author => "Robert Jordan")
The author parameter has the user agent search for items created by the specified author. Can return many results.
$ua->search(browsenode=>"4025", mode=>"books" [, keywords=>"perl"])
Returns a list of items by category ID (node). For example node "4025" is the CGI books category. You can add a keywords parameter to filter the results by that keyword.
$ua->search(exchange => Y04Y3424291Y2398445)
Returns an item offered by a third-party seller. The item is referenced by the so-called exchange ID.
$ua->search(keyword => "perl xml", mode => "books")
Search by keyword, mandatory parameters keyword and mode. Can return many results.
$ua->search(wishlist => "1XL5DWOUFMFVJ")
Search for all items in a specified wishlist. Can return many results.
$ua->search(upc => "075596278324", mode => "music")
Music search by UPC (product barcode), mandatory parameter upc. mode has to be set to music. Returns at most one result.
$ua->search(isbn => "0439784549")
Book search by ISBN (International Standard Book Number), mandatory parameter isbn. Returns at most one result. When searching non-US locales use the 13-digit ISBN.
$ua->search(similar => "0201360683")
Search for all items similar to the one represented by the ASIN provided. Can return many results.
$ua->search(power => "subject: perl and author: schwartz", mode => "books")
Initiate a power search for all books matching the power query. Can return many results. See Net::Amazon::Request::Power for details.
$ua->search(manufacturer => "Disney")
Initiate a search for all items made by a given manufacturrer. Can return many results. See Net::Amazon::Request::Manufacturer for details.
$ua->search(musiclabel => "Arista")
Initiate a search for all items made by a given music label. Can return many results. See Net::Amazon::Request::MusicLabel for details.
$ua->search(publisher => "oreilly")
Initiate a search for all items made by a given publisher. Can return many results. See Net::Amazon::Request::Publisher for details.
$ua->search(blended => "Perl")
Initiate a search for items in all categories.
$ua->search(seller => "A2GXAGU54VOP7")
Start a search on items sold by a specific third-party seller, referenced by its ID (not seller name).
$ua->search(textstream => "Blah blah Rolling Stones blah blah")
Find items related to keywords within a text stream.
The user agents search method returns a response object, which can be checked for success or failure:
if($resp->is_success()) {
print $resp->as_string();
} else {
print "Error: ", $resp->message(), "n";
}

In case the request for an item search succeeds, the response contains one or more Amazon properties, as it calls the products found. All matches can be retrieved from the Response object using its properties() method.

In case the request fails, the response contains one or more error messages. The response objects message() method will return it (or them) as a single string, while messages() (notice the plural) will return a reference to an array of message strings.

Response objects always have the methods is_success(), is_error(), message(), total_results(), as_string() and properties() available.
total_results() returns the total number of results the search yielded. properties() returns one or more Net::Amazon::Property objects of type Net::Amazon::Property (or one of its subclasses like Net::Amazon::Property::Book, Net::Amazon::Property::Music or Net::Amazon::Property::DVD), each of which features accessors named after the attributes of the product found in Amazons database:

for ($resp->properties) {
print $_->Asin(), " ",
$_->OurPrice(), "n";
}

In scalar context, properties() just returns the first Net::Amazon::Property object found. Commonly available accessors to Net::Amazon::Property objects are OurPrice(), ImageUrlLarge(), ImageUrlMedium(), ImageUrlSmall(), ReleaseDate(), Catalog(), Asin(), url(), Manufacturer(), UsedPrice(), ListPrice(), ProductName(), Availability(), SalesRank(), CollectiblePrice(), CollectibleCount(), NumberOfOfferings(), UsedCount(), ThirdPartyNewPrice(), ThirdPartyNewCount(), similar_asins(). For details, check Net::Amazon::Property.

Also, the specialized classes Net::Amazon::Property::Book and Net::Amazon::Property::Music feature convenience methods like authors() (returning the list of authors of a book) or album() for CDs, returning the album title.

Customer reviews: Every property features a review_set() method which returns a Net::Amazon::Attribute::ReviewSet object, which in turn offers a list of Net::Amazon::Attribute::Review objects. Check the respective man pages for details on whats available.