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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Computing platforms"”.
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Accelerating NOvA's Feldman-Cousins procedure using high performance computing platforms
… NOvA and Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing: High Energy Physics Data Analytics (SciDAC-4) collaborations, have implemented the FC procedure utilizing the High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). With this …
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Measuring and tuning energy efficiency on large scale high performance computing platforms
… of power in the field of High Performance Computing, whether it be as an obstacle, expense or design consideration, has never been greater and more pervasive. Research has been conducted in a number of areas related to power. Little, if any, existing research has focused on large scale High …
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Unconventional computing platforms and nature-inspired methods for solving hard optimisation problems
… given rise to a modern area of unconventional computing requiring the efforts of mathematicians, physicists and engineers. Many analogue physical systems, including networks of nonlinear oscillators, lasers, condensates, and superconducting qubits, are proposed and realised to address …
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A Work-Stealing For Dynamic Workload Balancing On CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Platforms
<p>Although many general purpose workloads have been accelerated on graphical processing units (gpus) over the last decade, other applications whose runtime behaviors are dynamic and irregular such as ones based on trees and graphs have suffered from serious workload imbalance problem caused by …
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Design and Characterization of a Hardware Encryption Management Unit for Secure Computing Platforms
… systems exposed in the field of operations. As computing devices become more pervasive, and software more complex, insufficiencies with current software protection mechanisms have arisen. Software--only and data--only protection systems have resulted in broken systems that are vulnerable to loss …
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Modelling and Evaluation of Performance, Security and Database Management Trade-offs in Cloud Computing Platforms. An investigation into quantitative modelling and simulation analysis of ‘optimal’ performance, security and database management trade-offs in Cloud Computing Platforms (CCPs), based on Stochastic Activity Networks (SANs) and a three-tier combined metrics
… management within a network system (e.g. a cloud computing platform) is presented within this research. Our study provides a methodology for modelling and quantitatively generating significant metrics needed in the evaluation of a network system. To narrow this research, a study is carried-out …
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Energy-efficient approximate computation in Topaz
… as a first-order concern in contemporary computing systems has motivated the design of energy-efficient approximate computing platforms. These computing platforms feature energy-efficient computing mechanisms such as components that may occasionally produce incorrect results. We present …
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Learning for Optimization with Virtual Savant
… algorithms that can exploit modern parallel computing platforms. The remarkable development of machine learning offers an opportunity to incorporate learning into optimization algorithms to efficiently solve large and complex problems. This thesis explores Virtual Savant, a paradigm that …
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A secure and scalable communication framework for inter-cloud services
A lot of contemporary cloud computing platforms offer Infrastructure-as-a-Service provisioning model, which offers to deliver basic virtualized computing resources like storage, hardware, and networking as on-demand and dynamic services. However, a single cloud service provider does not have …
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Hibridinių paskirstytųjų skaičiavimų dalijimosi platforma /
… tasks in heterogeneous hybrid distributed computing networks when the task sizes and the number of tasks are unknown. The aim of this work is to create a hybrid distributed computing platform for heterogeneous computing networks. The hybrid distributed computing platform architecture …
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High Performance Geospatial Analysis on Emerging Parallel Architectures
… high performance. At the same time, modern computing platforms increasingly derive their performance from several forms of parallelism. This dissertation explores the available parallelism in several GIS-applied algorithms: viewshed calculation, image feature transform, and feature analysis. …
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Cross-layer scheduling in cloud computing systems
… leading to sub-optimal throughput for cloud computing platforms. In this thesis, we propose a cross-layer scheduling framework that bridges the application level scheduler with the routing level scheduler (SDN). We realize our framework in a batch-processing framework (Hadoop) and a …
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A Design Assembly Technique for FPGA Back-End Acceleration
… Gate Array (FPGA) adaptation in modern computing platforms. This work presents an FPGA development paradigm that exploits logic variance and hierarchy as a means to increase FPGA productivity. The practical tasks of logic partitioning, placement and routing are examined and a resulting …
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Implementation of distributed orthogonal persistence using virtual memory / Francis Vaughan.
… memory found in the majority of conventional computing platforms. These attributes are exploited to support object movement for persistent storage to addressable memory, to aid in garbage collection, to provide the illusion of larger storage spaces than the underlying architecture allows, and …
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Advanced I/O Techniques for Efficient and Highly Available Process Crash Recovery Protocols
<p>As the number of CPU cores in high-performance computing platforms continues to grow, the availability and reliability of these systems become a primary concern. As such, some solutions are physical (ie. power backup) and some are software driven. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has …
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Design and implementation of an n-tier metacomputer with decentralised fault tolerance
… is not scalable. In addition, modern dynamic computing platforms, such as the Grid, make it impossible for application programmers to make any static assumptions on resource availability. The WebCom approach is designed to alleviate the application programmer from this, and other …
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Characterizing the augmented & virtual reality industry
The information age has included several computing platforms and interfaces to enable humanity. Each computing platform has had its capabilities and limitations. From mainframe computers to personal computers, and now to smartphones, we have seen a revolution in computing that has had several …
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