POPLOG – teaching, research, and development

The view from Sussex University Library Introduction POPLOG is an integrated toolkit providing a highly extendable collection of languages and tools suitable for absolute beginners, advanced researchers and system programmers. The toolkit was developed at Sussex University during the 80s. While POPLOG is no longer actively developed, the environment is still useful for prototyping applications.…

The Victorian Internet

Morse Code Straight Key J-38 (Photo credit: Whiskeygonebad) The other week I stumbled across a post about Morse keyers and decided to write some Python code for sending and understanding morse code. Before presenting the code listings, a little bit of history won't go amiss. The first Morse code message was sent on the 24th May, 1844,…

The Parallel Rendering of Webpages

This presentation describes the hardware and software environment for experimenting with the Parallel Rendering of Webpages. The hardware consists of a cluster of Single Board Computers (SBCs) which run a number of application servers that previously ran in the cloud (RHC and Pythonanywhere). Each application server was associated with a single application which was either…

Parallella LISP – the runtime environment

This series of blog posts describes the Parrallella-LISP source code and how to build applications requiring a combination of symbolic and numeric computation. To this end, two example applications will also be blogged about. The first application represents the meaning of documents with vector semantics and the second, extracts contours from binary images. If you…

LISP for the parallella board

LISP has a long distinguished history and is the second oldest high level programming language in use today. My interest in this language led me to create a version for the Parellella board. The starting point was a blog post on the parallella forum discussing how much LISP could fit on the board. In trying…

Supercomputing with the Parallella board

Some twenty years ago I set up a company to configure parallel computers for image processing applications. Unfortunately, demand wasn't very high because of the poor price/performance ratio and the advent of RISC processors which surpassed it. I was therefore very excited when about a year ago Adapteva created a kickstarter project to offer affordable…