Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: parallel computing
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Understanding and Explaining: The Feynman Technique
If you cannot recreate an idea from its elementary components, you do not really understand it — knowing something is not the same as knowing the name of something.
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Luck Is a Fickle Friend
As an enterprising young faculty member, I asked Professor Slotnick if he had any words of wisdom to offer a young parallel computing researcher, based on his experience with ILLIAC IV. He simply said, “Choose your risks carefully.”
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Salishan, Exascale and Heterogeneous Multicore
This year, Adolfy Hoisie (LANL) asked me to give the after dinner presentation, which is normally the evening of the second day. An after dinner talk is always fraught with danger, as the desired attributes are brevity, humor, brevity and insight. Oh, and did I mention brevity? Such events are especially challenging when the after…
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Parallelism, Multicore and Academic Partnership
Today, Microsoft and Intel jointly announced the creation of two Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC): one at the University of California at Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) and a second at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).