William T. (Bill) Rankin Research Scientist Philosopher Coffee Drinker

Current Research and Publications

Past Projects

• Provided management and technical direction for the Duke Shared Cluster Resource (DSCR). The DSCR is a moderate sized (~500+ nodes) cluster that serves the computing needs of over two dozen research groups throughout the university.
• If you want to see what I did for several years, a condensed version of my Dissertation is available.
• My master's work was in the area of Golomb Ruler Calculations.
• A Guide to the Distributed PMTA Code
• Latest DPMTA source code (version 3.1.3). I am currently in the process of rehosting DPMTA on Sourceforge.net. A link to the project page can be found HERE.

Resume/CV

• PDF format

Other Links and Information

• The PVM and MPI Reference Books

Some Parting Quotes

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

- unknown

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country -- and indeed the world -- has yet seen.

Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The Government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion.

- Stewart Dalzell, District Judge,
from the ruling on the so called Communications Decency Act