Steampunk Computers – something to do at the weekend
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…
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…
Language, Thought & Computation 