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Substantive Compounds in 'Beowulf.'
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Beowulf - Hæleð under Heofonum
This study of the design of Beowulf examines the possible function of the 'digressions', the poet's concept of time, the nature of the hero and the generic status of the poem. Finally, a suggestion as to the possible intention of the poem is proposed.
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"Beowulf maþelode....": text linguistics and speech acts
<p>During the long course of <em>Beowulf</em> criticism many special studies of the epic have been made: for example, the ‘digressions,’ the meter and rhythm, the historical background, and more recently the alleged oral-formulaic origins of the poem. But one subject of some significance appears to …
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Investigating Real-Time Sonar Performance Predictions Using Beowulf Clustering
… water conditions. This paper discusses how Beowulf clustering techniques were investigated and applied to achieve real-time sonar performance prediction capabilities based on commercially off the shelf (COTS) hardware and software. A sonar system measures ambient noise in real-time. Based on …
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The Beowulf Poet's Accommodation Of Pre-Christian Germanic Culture
This thesis argues for the Beowulf poet's more accommodating perspective on pre-Christian Germanic culture, when examined in comparison to other, later Germanic authors of works such as Icelandic sagas and Danish pseudo-history. The primary components of Beowulf I address to argue for this point …
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"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
… its interaction with the poetic language. Also, Beowulf, along with other Old English poems, provides evidence for stress and archaic linguistic features, neither of which is available in prose. By closely examining the text that supposedly represents the earliest stage of the North- and …
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Development of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf cluster
The purpose of this dissertation is to present the development and testing of the parallelisation of a Range-Doppler SAR processor. The inherent data parallelism found in SAR data lead to the choice of using master slave parallel processor, where copies of a slave task perform the same tasks on …
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Figuras de poder y resistencia en Beowulf : héroes, mujeres y monstruos
… ha sido objeto, a lo largo de los estudios sobre Beowulf, de gran fascinación y análisis, llegando a identificarlo con un representante de masculinidad y de cualidades físicas y sociales deseables para el mantenimiento de la sociedad guerrera. Se han proyectado en la figura del héroe aspectos y …
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'I have heard it said': towards a new translation of Beowulf
… via a new translation of the Old English poem Beowulf. By translating Beowulf, reporting on that process, and comparing it with my creative work, this work provides an articulation of the creative process that views translation as a particular way of writing creatively that uses a source text …
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A Descriptive Performance Model of Small, Low Cost, Diskless Beowulf Clusters
<p>Commodity supercomputing clusters known as Beowulf clusters, have become a low cost alternative to traditional supercomputers. Beowulf clusters combine inexpensive computers and specialized software to achieve supercomputing power. The processing nodes in a diskless Beowulf cluster do not have a …
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Evidence of the doctrine of grace in Beowulf... he thaes frofre gebad.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1972.
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Exploration of Cancellation Strategies for Parallel Simulation on Multi-Core Beowulf Clusters
… of cancellation strategies on multi-core Beowulf clusters with both shared memory and distributed memory construction have not been well studied. This thesis explores the comparative performance of various cancellation strategies implemented for Threaded Warped.</p>
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Estudo de tecnologias para computação paralela e distribuída: implementação de um Cluster Beowulf
… vantagens e desvantagens de um Cluster Beowulf High Performance Computer com software livre para códigos computacionais seriais e paralelos. Motivado por esta demanda, demonstrar as facilidades de instalação e recursos de gerenciamento existentes na utilização do Cluster Beowulf HPC …
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The Warrior and the Witan: Searching For the Culture of Wisdom In Beowulf
<p>In the poem Beowulf, the role of the community's formal council, the witan, has not been adequately examined. This group should be juxtaposed with Beowulf who, as a warrior, exhibits the values of individualism, while the witan embodies the values of the community. These communal values are …
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Superman's Ancestors - Beowulf, Odysseus and Roy Hobbs: Application and Analysis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Theory
… monomyth theory to literary classics such as <em>Beowulf</em>, Homer’s <em>The Odyssey</em> and Malamud’s <em>The Natural</em>. These diverse pieces will test Campbell’s theory and will reveal if the Hero’s Journey can withstand the test of not only time but space as well. </p>
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Speedup of MCNP(X) parallel KCODE execution via communication algorithm development and Beowulf Cluster optimization
… The first approach is assembly of a low cost Beowulf Cluster for parallel computation. The first half describes the MIT Nuclear Engineering Department's Beowulf Cluster, Echelon, as a prototype. Echelon is a low cost, 30 CPIJ, disk-less Debian Linux Beowulf Cluster. A user's manual is …
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Fortunes of A Hero: Anglo-Saxon Principles of Excellence In the Fortunes of Men and Beowulf
… in Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf.</p>
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