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Would that this were more well known. I would have called myself a conspiracy theorist if I'd made that conclusion on my own. Sure, I'm aware of the halted em
by redblacktree 13y ago
Would that this were more well known. I would have called myself a conspiracy theorist if I'd made that conclusion on my own. Sure, I'm aware of the halted embryonic stem cell research we had under Bush, but I had no idea it was happening with anything so seemingly-benign (or, at the least, neutral) as parallel computing.
- PaulHoule 13y agoParallel computing, at least based on the MPI paradigm, isn't benign. Once the DoD got the state of the art up to the point where they could get enough workers for Los Alamos and Sandia labs they didn't want to subsidize educating people from India and China in the techniques used to simulate nuclear weapons. As for other fields I think it's an issue of fashion and a zero sum game.
- redblacktree 13y agoWhat about the semantic web? What reason might the DoD have for cutting off that research? Edit: Never mind. Upon re-reading, I see that you chalked those up to fashion.
- PaulHoule 13y agoIt could be the DoD there. An astonishing number of people do semantic web related stuff in Virginia. They just don't publish what they do. ;-) Thanks to the government shutdown some of them weren't very busy and they made me a nice little piece of software...
- poulson 13y agoInteresting. As an active (but young) researcher in distributed-memory computing, I wouldn't say that the funding has been turned off. I would instead argue that many-core/GPU/MIC and MapReduce approaches took over as the parallel computing topics du jour.