Educational and Social Research

Niall Douglas 5.1 (29th August 2010)

I am a specialist in INTER-DOMAIN GENERAL SYSTEMS OPTIMISATION with a particular aptitude for eliciting solutions where there are no obvious avenues forward. My career traverses multiple domains and I have experience as an Engineer, an Economist, a Manager, an Entrepreneur, a Businessman, a Teacher, a Researcher and Writer. I have worked in the fields of computer hardware and software, academia, problem solution, consultancy, design, accountancy and military procurement. I have worked in the countries of Britain, Spain, Ireland and Canada, and in the languages of English and Spanish in which I am fluent. I have worked as a permanent employee, under contract and as a freelancer and have helped others to steer projects large and small to a successful and timely completion.

I have contributed over two and a half man-years of computer programming to open source and my code is present in much of the world's telecommunications infrastructure including the root DNS servers which are central to the internet, the world's leading ERP solution used by hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide, the branch ATM network of one of the world's largest banks, the EuroFighter defence aircraft, the Micrium car operating system used by many European and Japanese car manufacturers and one of the data analysis and planning tools used by the US Department of Defence. I operate my own geographically distributed information repository cloud based on the Plone content and knowledge management system which allows interested people to collaboratively work on a series of next generation repositories of information useful to society.

I am a year 2000 graduate of Software Engineering at the University of Hull, England, with extensive experience of working prior to and during my degree, and where my final project was an Object Orientated Hardware Abstraction Layer with a port of the uC/OS II real time operating system. I am also a year 2008 Joint Honours Masters graduate in Economics & Management at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where my Masters dissertation topic was on Modelling the Costs of Climate Change and its Costs of Mitigation. In 2009 I graduated with a further Masters in Business Information Systems from NUI University College Cork, Ireland, with my team winning the prestigious 2009 Student Enterprise Awards held annually by Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Government organisation for entrepreneurship, for our Web 2.0 FIXatdl Financial Algorithmic Trading Definition Language Editor.

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Wrote an academic treatise on the topic of user mode page allocation which stemmed from the work performed in the previous two experiences. This paper presents a large number of empirical test results comparing kernel page allocator performance on Microsoft Windows and Linux with the user mode page allocator as implemented below in a wide variety of synthetic and real world scenarios using the binary patching process injection feature of nedmalloc. The paper has been submitted for presentation to the International Symposium on Memory Management 2011 conference to be held in San Jose, U.S.A. as part of the 2011 Federated Computing Research Conference week.

Especially given that I had no prior academic experience in this field, nor even much outside the social sciences, the paper could not have possibly been written without the most helpful advice, detailed comments and patience from Doug Lea of the State University of New York at Oswego, USA; David Dice from Oracle Inc. of California, USA; and Peter Buhr of the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Portable Bitwise Fredkin Trie Library J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 2010-06-01 2010-06-26 Open Source

Repackaged work done as part of implementing the user mode page allocator for nedmalloc (see last experience) into a standalone C and C++ architecture independent library called nedtries. This library implements an in-place bitwise Fredkin trie algorithm which allows for near constant time insertions, deletions, finds, closest fit finds and iteration as well as being of equal speed in each of these operations (a very unusual characteristic in search algorithms). Benchmarking shows it to be approximately 50-100% faster than red-black trees and up to 20% faster than O(1) hash tables. Also added a C++ STL std::map<> and std::unordered_map<> compatible container called nedtries::trie_map<> which allows very easy usage from C++. Full API and source documentation is provided as a Microsoft Compiled Help format file.

Further optimisation of US DoD Planning Project Applied Research Associates Cork IE J62.0.2 2 21 213 2132 2010-03-30 2010-05-31 550

Further contracted by ARA to help them significantly improve the performance of one of their major projects for the US Department of Defence, a planning solver application which constructs large trees of interrelated objects occupying multiple gigabytes of RAM. Through the benchmarking and analysis performed during the previous contract with ARA, we realised that there ought to be a > 10% performance improvement realisable through implementing a user mode memory page allocator.

Provided through ned Productions Ltd.

As part of the contract tendering process, a quick technology demonstration was written to determine the potential performance improvements. It was discovered that remapping memory pages via the manipulation of the processor's memory management unit is around twenty times faster than copying 4Kb of memory (on Intel Core 2) and around sixty five times faster than copying 16Kb of memory. This meant that large arrays of items could be extended several orders of magnitude faster than is traditionally the case. These results were sufficient to convince the customer to initiate the contract.
After implementation we found a further inadvertent cause of even higher performance gains: the avoidance of having to clear newly allocated memory. This allowed nedmalloc to run 20-25x faster when manipulating allocations averaging 1Mb with exponentially larger gains for larger allocations.
We later discovered an academic paper partially proposing a similar idea entitled EVector: An efficient vector implementation - Using virtual memory for improving memory by Kimpe, Vandewalle & Poedts (2006). Our implementation is very different to theirs however, and so superior are the performance benefits that an academic paper detailing the new approach is in the process of becoming published.

Contributed EU VAT support to Plone's Easyshop Product J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 2010-01-31 2010-03-31 Open Source

When searching for an e-Commerce solution for the ned Productions Ltd. website capable of handling intra-EU B2B and B2C VAT, it was realised that very few open source e-Commerce solutions are capable of this without purchasing additional components (and usually at a high monthly cost). As the company's primary web application platform is Plone, a complete configurable intra-EU VAT solution was developed and contributed to Easyshop.

Optimisation of US DoD Planning Project Applied Research Associates Cork IE J62.0.2 2 21 213 2132 2009-09-01 2010-01-28 75

Contracted by ARA to help them solve performance problems being experienced by one of their major projects for the US Department of Defence, a planning solver application which constructs large trees of interrelated objects occupying multiple gigabytes of RAM. Work focused around the incorporation of my memory allocator, nedmalloc, into their project.

Provided through ned Productions Ltd.

Determined that the source of their problems was that nedmalloc was not being reliably called by their Qt-based application (a violation of the ODR) which was causing segmentation faults. Many solutions were analysed, and eventually a brute force approach of adding a binary patcher was adopted which had the major long term cost advantage of not requiring a custom build of Qt. This binary patcher replaced all usage of the system allocator with usage of nedmalloc by rewriting the appropriate parts of the PE format binaries on Windows.
One particular problem was handling system allocated blocks efficiently as the logic for checking for such blocks is highly branch predictor unfriendly. An initial 13% loss in performance on x86 was reduced to nil through considerable hand tuning and analysis of assembler.
Even with the slight performance loss on x64, nedmalloc still remains the fastest free portable memory allocator in the world, a title it has held since 2006. It is now however much more flexible and useful than before especially with respect to debugging facilities.

Radio Over IP Project Kestrel Communications Ltd. Cork IE J62.0.2 2 21 213 2132 2009-07-01 2009-09-30 50

Developed a low cost software based application to link disparate radio installation sites via VoIP transmitted over the internet. This project is intended to be initially deployed at Blackpool Shopping Centre where it will allow a person located anywhere in the world to log into the Centre's internal radio system and participate in its dialogue.

Provided through ned Productions Ltd.

The RoIP server was a custom Linux installation running the Asterisk VoIP server software. The radio interface app_rpt was used to communicate with the radio via a USB FOB (basically a USB connected sound card).
Remote PCs then used the IAXRPT Windows client to perform an IAX protocol connection with the RoIP server. To the end user, after connection one hears the radio chatter and presses the left Ctrl button to press PTT and transmit.

Founded ned Productions Limited J62.0.2 2 21 213 2132 2009-07-01 2009-07-30 Unpaid

Set up a limited company to provide consultancy services in the field of computer information technology to fee-paying clients.

Founded The Freeing Growth Foundation P85.4.2 2 23 231 2310 2009-07-01 2009-07-30 Unpaid

Set up a non-profit limited company to act as a legal vehicle for charitable activities ongoing from the Future Society. It is intended that it will seek grant awards for furtherance of research and activities as described by the "Freeing Growth" book.

Tutor in Economics, Business, Stats, Management and Web Programming NUI University College Cork Cork IE P85.4.2 2 23 231 2310 2008-10-01 2009-05-31 18

Tutored the “Masters in E-Business” class of 2009 in XHTML, Javascript and PHP web services programming. Also tutored students suffering from disabilities in Economics, Business Studies, Statistics, IT and Management.

Economics Lecturer NUI University College Cork Cork IE P85.4.2 2 23 231 2310 2008-10-01 2009-01-31 65

Gave twenty-one hours of Economics lectures for the Adult Education Department in their interdisciplinary Social Studies degree programme, during which I achieved an excellent 87.2% class attendance, an 82.8% Interestingness and an 81.2% Clearness rating in the weekly feedback form evaluations.

Designed the syllabus of the course to dovetail in with the other modules taught in the Degree. Coursework consisted of five readings from five topical books with a series of questions which were marked each week.
Topics covered include non-linear chaotic dynamic systems, information asymmetries, energy return on investment (EROI), volatility and periodicity in economic growth, the disequilibrium structures within demand and supply, the sources of the Celtic Tiger, the Gaussian distribution and the central limit theorem, correlation and convertibility of energy, food and water.

Author of Book "Freeing Growth" R90.0.3 2 24 245 2451 2008-06-01 2008-11-30 Unpaid

Wrote a five hundred page book consisting of my thoughts on a range of topics including Accounting, Agricultural, Corporate, Educational, Financial, Health, Legal, Moral, Political, Spiritual & Religious matters with a strong grounding in mathematical logic, based on an application of the principles of the Tn project (below) to wider society. After receiving feedback from others, I intend to expand this book into a series of many books from 2009 onwards.

Brook GPU J62.0.1 2 21 213 2131 2007-06-01 2007-12-31 Open Source

Significantly upgraded the open source software Brook GPU which is a streaming computation language for graphics processors. A 2007 era GPU can achieve 250 GFLOPs with good data partitioning, and performance roughly doubles annually.

Upgraded the OpenGL runtime to use FBOs instead of PBuffers and updated the texture transfer to use PBO-based asynchronous DMA transfers, thus significantly increasing speed and adding full compatibility with Linux and Mac OS X.
Added a GLSL output runtime target, thus matching the OpenGL capabilities with the DirectX runtime.
Added per-thread operation to all runtimes, thus allowing multiple GPU’s to be operated in parallel simultaneously.
Upgraded the CPU debug runtime to use SSE intrinsics on x86 and x64 processors and OpenMP to use multiple processors. Performance was increased some forty times.

The Future Society P85.4.2 2 23 231 2310 2007-02-01 2008-06-30 Unpaid

Formed a student society called “The Future Society” which held a lecture series called “Creating The Future” given by invited guest lecturers speaking upon the future.

These lectures were given by world leaders in their fields such as:

The heterodox Economist Paul Ormerod (author of Butterfly Economics).
Founder of the Schumacher College and Editor of Resurgence Magazine Satish Kumar.
The world’s leading authority on Accounting theory Professor Rob Gray.
One of the world’s most famous Historiographers Professor Michael Bentley.
One of the world’s leading environmentalists, Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO. This event was chaired by the then St. Andrews Rector, Mr. Simon Pepper OBE (of the World Wildlife Fund).

The Future Society Executive Committee hosted an after-lecture dinner with each of the guest lecturers which has proved invaluable for networking and contacts.

Thread caching memory allocator J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 2005-12-01 unbounded Open Source

Finding that ptmalloc2 did not scale as well with extra processor cores as it could, reimplemented ptmalloc2 by basing a new allocator, nedmalloc, on dlmalloc but with an added thread cache for smaller allocations. Still remains to this day the fastest fully-portable memory allocator in the world, including commercial offerings and is in use by root DNS servers and some of the world’s largest corporations such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, SAP AG, Applied Research Associates Inc. and CSC.

Added void * support to the C++ Boost.Python library J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 2005-11-01 2005-11-30 Open Source

Due to further requirements of the TnFOX Python bindings, as Boost.Python did not previously support void *, most C & C++ code had to resort to some nasty hacks to work around it. As of v1.33.1 this is no longer necessary.

Andrew Melville Hall Residents Committee P85.4.2 2 23 231 2310 2005-05-15 2006-05-15 Unpaid

Was elected as Secretary of the Senior Residents Committee. Minuted meetings, helped organise resident events, liaised between wardenial staff and residents, modernised the Committee’s Constitution, helped bring in direct subscriptions collection scheme, helped organise annual resident’s ball.

Added symbol visibility support to GCC J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 2004-07-01 2004-07-31 Open Source

Patched in the GCC 4.0 feature to set per-symbol ELF visibility (using __attribute__ and –fvisibility) in a MSVC compatible syntax. This was required by the TnFOX Python bindings exceeding exported symbol limits and a need to contain the number to only those necessary. This patch proved to be one of the most popular new features in GCC 4.x and use of it has been widely adopted by many projects including OpenOffice, KDE, Boost and Qt.

TnFOX library J62.0.1 2 21 213 2131 2003-05-01 unbounded Open Source

Forked the LGPL C++ GUI toolkit FOX for building a portable library providing the necessary core functionality for Tn which is a commercial implementation of my previous research. It continues to grow in popularity and features, recently exceeding 40,000 lines of code.

It provides:

Identical functionality on Microsoft Windows, Unix & Apple MacOS X.
An extremely flexible thread-safe & exception-safe 64 bit addressing i/o structure.
- Classes which provide file i/o, named pipe i/o, socket i/o (IPv4 & IPv6), inter-thread i/o, shared memory & memory mapped file i/o, strong file encryption and SSL/TLS secure connectivity via the OpenSSL library.
Superior generic and robustness compile-time programming tools e.g. typelists, traits, policies, rollbacks etc.
A full set of multithreading primitives, some written in x86 assembler for speed plus dynamic thread pools.
Automatic human-language translation and locale specialisation facilities via Google Translate.
A full set of bindings for python using the Boost.Python library.
Automatic munging in by a python script of extra run-time support code providing nested C++ exceptions plus automatic extraction of error codes and user-visible text for translation.
Full integration with host OS security facilities, including Win32 ACL based security and POSIX user & group ID.
Arbitrary freestores based on nedmalloc (previously ptmalloc2) giving >6000% speed improvement in dynamic memory allocation over Win32.
Easily extensible & extremely efficient generic Inter Process Communication framework with asynchronous i/o and optional zlib compression. Can transport arbitrary C++ objects across any i/o device listed above.
Full SQL database support with native SQLite3 and via-IPC drivers.
Substantial OpenGL-based 3D and 2D graphing facilities.
Patched and reworked FOX to provide per-thread event loops allowing multiple window trees to be run concurrently.

The Tn Revolution Project J62.0.1 2 21 213 2131 2002-05-01 2003-01-31 2004-03-01 2006-06-30 Open Source

My third and fourth attempts at reimplementing computer software structure from the ground-up, with the primary goal of creating a 10x or greater productivity improvement for skilled workers (Brookes’ Silver Bullet). Implemented in C++ & Python using TnFOX (previously Qt) and multithreading throughout, it is designed for 64 bit NUMA architectures and can run on Win32/64, POSIX Unix (e.g. Linux, FreeBSD) and Mac OS X but with low resource requirements for eventual transition to mobile phones.

The major sub-goals of this project include:

To make software self-organising and self-optimising based upon system (ecosystem) and complexity theory (c.f. Bateson, Heisenburg, Prigogine) whereby tools magnify the effectiveness of effort.
To conceptualise all programming and user operation in simple cognitive elements, thus greatly improving intuitiveness of operation and much increased productivity.
To integrate all software components across multiple systems such that they appear and act as one.
To be fully secure at all levels whilst remaining compatible with the host OS – this is a full capability based system.

Test Bench Control Software Architect Setroson S.A. Madrid ES J62.0.1 2 21 213 2131 2001-01-01 2002-05-31 50000

Designed a multithreaded distributed application for Windows 2000 using the Microsoft technologies Visual C++, VisualBasic, VBA, MFC and C#; MySQL & ODBC for the database and the National Instruments’ technologies PXI, LabWindows/CVI, TestStand and LabView. Also designed and implemented a system restore CD-ROM which was a bootable version of Linux with custom-written software.

The project’s goal was to be a bench-portable test bench control and component management software plus bench-customisations for the (i) M-3011 Hydraulic Test Bench Bench (contracted by EADS Deutschland) and (ii) B-1057 Fuel Component Test Bench (contracted by British Aerospace Systems) for the EuroFighter project.
Innovative features included:
- A self-adapting help system which taught the user as they used the bench. This was written in HTML with custom embedded ActiveX controls (MS HTMLHelp).
- A graphical virtual instrument showing fuel flows, valve positions etc. which were manipulable using the mouse. This was implemented using a custom designed scripting language to specify possible fuel flows and possible valve states.
- A searchable library of all engineering specifications in multiple formats including SGML, PDF and MS Word.
- A completely customisable UUT test report generator (using Crystal Reports) which each air force could tailor individually.
- The application could run on two computers connected by TCP/IP at the same time controlling the same bench.
Due to the high performance & safety requirements of testing EuroFighter aircraft components, the code was written from the ground-up to be efficient and with my own design of structured exception handling. The Continuous Built-In Test (CBIT) was so accurate it detected hardware problems no human could and required specialised equipment to solve.
Performance analysis at the end of project using tools designed by myself showed 5000 i/o's per second sustained (well above specification).
The core was written in ANSI C but had ActiveX extensions support e.g. a stopwatch & timer (VisualBasic), report generator (Crystal Reports, MFC & Visual C++) and a voltmeter (LabView).
The database for the component (UUT) management was based in MySQL manually linked against a disc based store of i/o transcripts and test reports. Specialised support was present to suspend MySQL & compress its data store into a single file which then was burned regularly to a backup CD.
Other responsibilities I assumed there included liasing extensively with EADS, BAE and directly with the militaries of the four EuroFighter participating nations.
While I implemented much of the core code myself (there was only myself for the first six months), I also mentored & led two other programmers during my time there.

Dissertation Project for Degree J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 1999-10-01 2000-05-31 Open Source

Designed and implemented a technically superior Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) called NedHAL for generic ARM architectures in ARM assembler and ANSI C. It was an object orientated modular framework with multiprocessor capability. Also ported the uC/OS II RTOS onto my project (now freeware). Some of this code has been since incorporated into the primary car operating system firmware Micrium which is used by many major car manufacturers.

ARM Consultant Intelligent Systems Design (ISD) Ltd. London Ontario CA J62.0.2 2 21 213 2132 1999-06-01 1999-08-31 150000

This three month contract was to implement a specified list of items, most important of which was to improve performance. This was especially successful with a threefold performance increase and a six figure cost saving thanks to not having to prematurely upgrade hardware.

Replaced the real-time operating system (RTOS) in their GPS (Global Positioning System) library for their embedded ARM device with a licensed third-party RTOS called SuperTask! (made by US Software).
Implemented and integrated many new features including Flash ROM reprogramming, serial port driver, LCD panel display driver, power saving and Infra-Red communications.
Merged ARM's Demon debugger into the new operating system, allowing debugging without a JTAG and ICE (In-Circuit Emulator) based debugger.

Preemptive Multitasker J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 1998-12-01 1998-12-31 Open Source

Wrote a fully featured preemptive multitasker called Wimp2 for the Acorn RISC-OS operating system in fully hand-coded ARM assembler.

Applications and Systems Engineer Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) Ltd., Consulting Division Cambridge GB J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 1998-06-01 1998-09-30 14000

Performed a number of "odd jobs" involving the writing of several small computer programs in C and ARM Assembler.

Wrote a driver for ARM’s Angel debugger to drive a tertiary serial port on the Cirrus Logic CLPS-7111 board. Due to hardware difficulties, successfully used a logic analyser to implement the code.
Wrote a modular EEPROM programmer in C++ for Win32 allowing test ROM images to be easily flashed into test boards.
Overhauled and redesigned DEC's StrongARM uHAL for generic Arm's and ported the new uHAL to the Arm test motherboard, the PID7T. Also ported the redesigned uHAL to the Cirrus Logic CL-7111 board.

Year, Student and Science Faculty Representative P85.4.2 2 23 231 2310 1998-05-01 2000-05-31 Unpaid

Whilst at Hull University, elected as member of the last Lawns Residents Association – our main function was to wind up the LRA successfully. Elected as Staff/Student Representative for the Computer Science Department – liaised between staff and students informally and via formal committee. Also elected to Student’s Union Parliament as Ordinary Representative where many matters were debated of both large import and small. Also elected as the Undergraduate Science Faculty Representative on University Senate where I was one of four voting members representing the entire Student Body.

Language Compiler J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 1997-01-01 1998-06-01 Unpaid

Wrote a portable BBC Basic to ANSI C compiler (Acorn RISC-OS, Unix, Win32 & MacOS) in C. This near-completed yearlong project was abandoned after the Acorn group was liquidated.

Software Engineer Protechnic Computers Ltd. Cambridge GB J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 1997-04-01 1997-09-30 12000

Designed and wrote a multithreaded distributable application for Windows NT 4.0 using the Microsoft technologies Visual C++ and a custom library for Unix applications.

The project’s goal was to permit Unix applications to query Windows-only databases on one or more Windows machines over a TCP/IP based network.
Implemented a number of engines for this system using third party search engines (native to Windows) such as the Royal Mail PAF (Post office Address File) engine and a Read code v3 (used in the English National Health Service) engine.

Customer Support & Upgrading Colton Software Ltd. Cambridge GB J62.0.1 2 21 213 2132 1996-06-01 1996-09-30 10000

Performed a number of "odd jobs" involving provision of customer support, code writing for a product upgrade and the design of an advertisement.

Helped upgrade the integrated package PipeDream from v4.13 to v4.5 which incorporated StrongARM compatibility and a number of enhancements.
Manned the technical support desk dealing with both telephone and written queries.
Designed an advertisement for publication in Acorn User.

User Mode Memory Page Allocation A Silver Bullet For Memory Allocation? Niall Edward Douglas author 2011-Jul forthcoming text International Symposium on Memory Management ISMM2011 catalog Freeing Growth How The World Can Grow Four Times Faster Sustained Niall Edward Douglas author 2008-Dec Unpublished text book Modelling the Costs of Climate Change and its Costs of Mitigation A Scientific Approach Niall Edward Douglas author 2008-May University Library of Munich, Germany text MPRA Working Papers catalog RePEc:pra:mprapa:13650 http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/13650.html 13650 Explain "conjectural variation" in Cournot duopoly, evaluate its impacts and discuss the policy implication Niall Edward Douglas author 2006-Dec University Library of Munich, Germany text MPRA Working Papers catalog RePEc:pra:mprapa:13652 http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/13652.html 13652 What is the evidence on the role of foreign direct investment in economics growth, and on the determinants of foreign direct investment flows? Niall Edward Douglas author 2006-Apr University Library of Munich, Germany text MPRA Working Papers catalog RePEc:pra:mprapa:13651 http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/13651.html 13651 UCC and St. Andrews UCC and St. Andrews