Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Author: Dan Reed
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Petascale and Multicore Redux
We can continue down our hand-crafted application development path for petascale systems, and it will work; the evidence to date is clear. Given enough investment of time and money, we will be successful, but I am not convinced we are on the most effective path. (Aerodynamics is not mandatory on cars either, but it surely…
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Singapore Biopolis
As Nature and Science have noted, the Biopolis is a part of Singapore’s aggressive plans to establish itself as an international center for biomedical research, with both world-class facilities and international talent.
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Food for Thought
You could grab an airport bestseller — you know the kind — “hardnosed but psychologically damaged PI doggedly solves grisly murder” or “elite special forces unit foils terrorist plot in the nick of time.” Perhaps emotionally satisfying, or at least mind numbing, these are the cerebral equivalent of cotton candy and potato chips, empty intellectual…
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Bridge Building: Medical Research and Computing
As an aside, Lee remarked to me once that he had been pleased with the quality of his undergraduate science education and that it had prepared him well to tackle complex problems. Of course, he also noted that he’d had undergraduate physics with Dick Feynman, chemistry with Linus Pauling and biology with Max Delbrück. That’s…
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In Memoriam
Louvenia ReedMay 9, 1929-May 20, 2007I mourn my mother, my friend Happiness I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tellme what is happiness.And I went to famous executives who boss the work ofthousands of men.They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as thoughI was trying to fool with…
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Multicore: Our Software Crisis
Multicore designs are forcing us to face an ugly truth, namely that we cannot continue to hide parallelism from the software designer.