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System Maintenance: Sunday, June 2nd

Computing Reviews will be offline on Sunday, June 2nd from approximately 7:00am to noon PST for maintenance work. 

During this time Computing Reviews, and the various sub-sites used by reviewers and editors may be partially or completely unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.

System Update: September 16, 2012

We have completed our system maintenance, and the CR reader’s area is back up. We have made some substantial improvements to the system, so you should notice a significant improvement in the speed of the site. Thanks for your patience during this time!

 

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Site Maintenance Update: September 13, 2012

Computing Reviews is currently conducting server maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience you've experienced. We will post an update when the regular site is available.

While we work on bringing you an improved CR experience, please check below to read recent reviews and additional content.

 

 

Visit us on LinkedIn and join the conversation!

All current reviewers are welcome to join our updated group on LinkedIn, created exclusively for reviewers. It is an easy way to stay connected with our expert community, see CR news, and share your ideas. Please visit the group page and click on the yellow button to "Join Group" or email lindsay [at] computingreviews [dot] com.

September/October Featured Reviewer: Hui Liu

Hui Liu obtained his PhD degree in parallel computing and computational mathematics in 2010, at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before his PhD study, he studied computational mathematics at the University of Science and Technology of China from 2001 to 2005.

He has worked on parallel computing and numerical methods for partial differential equations. During his PhD study, he focused on adaptive finite element methods, and was one developer of PHG (Parallel Hierarchical Grid), parallel software designed to support h-, p- and hp-adaptive finite element codes. He also studied dynamic load balancing, including refinement trees and space-filling curves.

Hui is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Calgary, Canada, and has been working for the reservoir simulation group since 2010. He is leading the development of GPU-based parallel iterative linear solver projects. So far, one single-GPU package and one multi-GPU package have been developed. The speedup of these two packages--as well as their reservoir simulators--is high.
For Computing Reviews, he specializes in reviews on parallel computing, GPU computing, linear solvers, and numerical methods.

Computing Reviews is moving!

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As of April 1st, our URL will be www.computingreviews.com. We'd appreciate if you update your bookmarks and links and you can do so now as the new URL is already available.

If you want to help communicate this to others, we've made all of our marketing materials available on a page here: Domain Name Change - Materials. Feel free to make use of what you find there, and if you need any help please contact us.

System Maintenance: December 30th

On Friday, December 30th, our website will be offline for maintenance and updates at both www.reviews.com and www.computingreviews.com, starting at approximately 6am Pacific time, until approximately 11pm Pacific time.

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System Maintenance Notice: Saturday, May 14th and Saturday, May 21st

Computing Reviews will be offline on both Saturday, May 14th and Saturday, May 21st while we undertake some systems maintenance work. We anticipate being offline for approximately 5 hours starting at 6am Pacific Time. Thanks for your patience.

 

System Maintenance Notice: December 30, 2010

Computing Reviews will be offline on Thursday, December 30th while we undertake some systems maintenance work. As soon as we are able, we will bring the site back up. Thank you for your understanding.

Computing Reviews will now be available from the ACM

ACM has teamed up with Reviews.com to market, sell, and distribute access to the online database for the ACM Computing Reviews journal published by ACM in collaboration with Reviews.com. Effective October 13, 2010, institutional subscriptions to the academic, government, and corporate markets will be sold exclusively by ACM and its authorized sales agents. In the past, subscriptions were ordered directly through Reviews.com. Over the past year, ACM and Reviews.com have worked closely to identify opportunities to create better value for institutional subscribers and end users of CR, and this new approach to selling the CR database is a tangible result of this collaboration.

In the past, CR and ACM Digital Library subscribers have had a taste of the high quality and comprehensive reviews that are available in the CR database as a result of the strong integration that already exists between the ACM Digital Libraryand CR. The ACM Digital Libraries' bibliographic database, The Guide to Computing Literature, contains links to over 24,000 reviews on the CR site and the ACM Digital Library contains the full text of over 5,000 articles currently reviewed by CR in the database. However, in the past it was not possible for institutional subscribers to the ACM Digital Library to subscribe and access CR directly through the DL with a single point of entry, invoice, and IP authentication. Going forward, this process will be seamless for subscribers ordering through ACM.

As of October 13, 2010, ACM is offering special consortia-based pricing for institutional subscribers ordering through any of ACM's many regional consortia partners around the world with a simplified transaction process. For government and corporate institutions, there will also be an option to bundle pricing and access for CR directly with their ACM Digital Library subscription.

In the United States, 2010/2011 pricing for CR is tier based to conform to the ACM Digital Library model and in the Rest of World pricing is based on a flat-fee model. In all regions there will be discounts available for ordering through ACM's academic library consortium partners.

In the coming weeks, the ACM DL librarian website (http://librarians.acm.org) will be updated with CR marketing materials, pricing information and CR advertisements. If you would like to know more about the CR product offering, please visit the site at http://reviews.com or for pricing details, please email Nolen Harris ([email protected]) at ACM directly.