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The David vs. Goliath Story of Parallel Computing

Have you ever looked at a wind turbine, a car piston, or a jet turbine blade and wondered how it was made? How about a racing yacht…

Mar 17, 2016

Mar 17, 2016

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Why am I here, and why you shouldn’t care

Have you ever read Candide? Nope, how about Theodicy? Leibniz is quite the optimist. Why should you care about any of these works? We’ll…

Feb 3, 2016

Feb 3, 2016

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Crowd Sourcing a Language (part 2)

So what is a programming language? A quick Google search turns up this simple definition:

Jan 11, 2016

Jan 11, 2016

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Simplifying Parallel Applications for C++, An Example Parallel Bzip2 using RaftLib with Performance…

We spend way to much time building bits and pieces to put together parallel programs. How much time do we (the programmer) spend putting…

Jan 10, 2016

Simplifying Parallel Applications for C++, An Example Parallel Bzip2 using RaftLib with Performance…

Jan 10, 2016

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My View on Civil Society

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the “militia” movements and the comparison to the police response in Ferguson, MO. I’m sure there are…

Jan 5, 2016

Jan 5, 2016

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Streaming with RaftLib

So I got bored and built a streaming run-time for C++. Well, not quite, I built one so I could do my thesis on mathematical modeling of…

Jan 5, 2016

Jan 5, 2016

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Move Mountains, One Rock at a Time

Ever had this great big idea, but didn’t know how to start? How about something that seemed so huge that you can’t seem to get any traction…

Jan 4, 2016

Jan 4, 2016

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My crazy idea

I’m going to try something new, instead of doing research in a vacuum between papers, I’m going to try blogging it (well, the…

Jan 1, 2016

Jan 1, 2016

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Do We Need More Programming Languages and Run-Times?

First, languages are tools, nothing more. They’re a means to communicate ideas and concepts to the computer. We have tons of languages…

Jan 1, 2016

Do We Need More Programming Languages and Run-Times?

Jan 1, 2016

Jonathan Beard

Jonathan Beard

CS/CoE Researcher (Dr. Beard), US Army Vet (Captain Beard), Hacker, Techie, Runner. interested in HPC, Bioinformatics/Comp Bio,ML,robotics,CSED, Opinions mine.

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