Bjarne Geir Herland

Topics of interest

• Distributed Computing
  • The Beowulf project
  • Scalable Clusters of Commodity Computers
  • Parastation
  • The PAPERS project
  • IEEEStd P1596.9
• Visualization
  • Reconstruction
  • Medical Imaging Processign Group
• Genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and weird things like that.
  • Complex systems
  • Simulated annealing
• Parallel computing in general
  • Try to promote the use of MPI
  . One PublicDomain implementation is MPIch . Another one is LAM
  • Good resources for parallel computing are the HENSA computing archive and PARL .

In my spare time, I prefer

• dancing. Preferably so-called "social dance", like Swing, Boogie-Woogie, Lindy and similar. You might also want to check out The US Swing and dance server .
• I also like to drink Whisky. Not while dancing, but preferably with good friends, like "The Norwegian Whisky Club Glen". Click here for a malt whisky tour.
• When I'm not drinking whisky or dancing, I play soccer. Sometimes I also sleep. And when I'm tired of all this, I simply lay down on my sofa with a good book. :-)