Taxonomic Tree Visualization and Nested List Parsing
I’m currently employed by WWU’s biology department to develop a web application that catalogues over 1000 moth species native to the Pacific Northwest region. With so many species, the taxonomic tree is large and not readily displayable on the web. Coming up with an intuitive user interface for navigating the tree is proving to be …
2D Multigrid & Red-Black SOR in Ada95… Part 2
Before we begin the next part in this series, let’s review the stencil used for solving the heat equation. A single iteration over the grid involves applying this stencil (taking the NEWS (North/East/West/South average) for every index in the inner grid. Let’s see how this looks sequentially in Python. This is known as Jacobi iteration …
3D Fruchterman Reingold Algorithm?
In preparation for SC11, I began experimenting with parallelism using something other than the built in paradigms in the Ada programming language. Unfortunately, it’s not so easy to pick a programming model – popular models include OpenMP, OpenMPI, OpenCL, CUDA, Intel Cilk, and pthreads (among others!). I might do a blog post in the future …