[Wolves] My Beowulf Project is now on line ;)

[s parkes]

>From: Chris Procter <Chris@foxonline.co.uk>
>
> >>10.13 am Restate my assumptions,
> >>1. mathematics is the language of nature
> >>2. everything around us can be represented and understood by numbers
> >>3. therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature.
> >>
> >
> >well remembered! if anyones interested i've got the book, which has a
>excellent
> >diary of the whole project.
>
>I used to have this written out and pinned to my wall, I was analysing rain
>rate data at the time (dont ask, but its a good job I don't own a power
>drill...) so it seemed very appropriate.
A hand drill would work better less tramua just keep the wound clean and it 
will heal with the benefit of never needing to score again

>
>
>Anyway, according to Danny Hillis (designer of the Connection Machine with
>65,536 processors, writer of "The Pattern on the Stone") pretty much
>everything is parallelisable, also Stephen Wolframs theory in "A New Kind 
>Of
>Science" has a similar basis (hmm both are based on cellular automatia and
>the Game Of Life) you just have to look at the problem from the right angle
>so think of a fun task and factor it for parrallel execution. If you build 
>a
>beowulf cluster they will come.
>
which, neatly, takes us back in time as the beowulf, and alife (combined 
with the lowtech video wall) where two of the ideas we have banded around.  
Combine the ideas, add a little of our famous apathy and what do we get?

Simple rules, done in parallel, multiplied by many thousands, at some s**t 
hot speed, with a pretty display to drool over gives us our project with 
hardware, software (both the wimpy and hardcore kind), the kind of maths 
that starts simple and ends with you drilling a whole in the head smoking 
DMT and living in caves and interesting theological discussion thrown in or 
good measure ;-)

are we the lug or what?  we may not have a drinks machine but we have god in 
our computers ;-)

sparkes

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