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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Power and Performance"”.
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Power and performance optimization of negative capacitance transistor circuits
… technology solution for achieving extremely low power and high performance. The negative capacitance exhibited by the ferroelectric layer of the transistor results in very high effective gate capacitance leading to electrostatic voltage amplification. In other words, the internal gate voltage is …
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Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019
… texts, from literary representations to live performances, from the antebellum period to the contemporary moment,that highlight African-American women singer-celebrities navigating entertainment industries in the United States. Focusing on significant figures from the nineteenth century to the …
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High-Level Resource Binding and Allocation for Power and Performance Optimization
While technology scaling has presented many new and exciting opportunities, new design challenges have arisen. Smaller feature sizes have led to increased density and large variations in the delay and power characteristics of on-chip devices. Additionally, with the increasing desirability of …
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Perception, Power, and Performance in Small Groups: Insights From a Computational Model
… the demographic composition of the group, and the order in which assignments are made within the group. Runs were conducted on a simple case to verify that the model algorithms behaved as expected, to explore the implications of the different evaluation rules and the different assignment …
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A Decision Tool for Supplier Selection That Takes into Account Power and Performance
… select their suppliers to provide required performance while being successful partners. An important aspect of collaboration is the power relationship between the company and its suppliers. Although the significance of power in supplier selection is acknowledged, published work rarely …
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Evaluating the Importance of Strength, Power, and Performance Tests in an NCAA Division I Football Program
Strength and conditioning professionals spend a great deal of time and effort trying to improve athletic performance. Even as coaches evaluate each athlete by using the results of a vast battery of tests, there has been considerable speculation and discussion about the physical attributes of …
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Power-efficient design of 16-bit mixed-operand multipliers
Multiplication is an expensive and slow arithmetic operation, which plays an important role in many DSP algorithms. It usually lies in the critical-delay paths, having an effect on performance of the system as well as consuming large power. Consequently, significant improvements in both power and …
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Theories and Techniques for Efficient High-End Computing
Today, power consumption costs supercomputer centers millions of dollars annually and the heat produced can reduce system reliability and availability. Achieving high performance while reducing power consumption is challenging since power and performance are inextricably interwoven; reducing power …
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Parallel algorithms and architectures for low power video decoding
… an effective approach to achieve high processing performance with low power consumption. This thesis presents parallel architectures and algorithms designed to deliver the power and performance required for current and next generation video coding. Coding efficiency, area cost and scalability are …
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Molten Regolith Electrolysis reactor modeling and optimization of in-situ resource utilization systems
… as a possible avenue for reducing the mass and cost of exploration architectures. In particular, producing oxygen from lunar regolith holds great promise for maintaining life support systems and enabling orbital refueling of chemical propulsion systems to reduce launch vehicle mass. …
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Power, Performance and Energy Models and Systems for Emergent Architectures
… combined with complex memory hierarchies and heterogeneity in high-performance computing (HPC) systems form a barrier to efficient application and architecture design. The performance achievements of the past must continue over the next decade to address the needs of scientific …
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transgression
"transgression" is a poetry collection with claws and nail polish. Across four acts, Reres uses a chorus of voices to interrogate the role of the transgressing woman—both present and past, privately and publicly. Transgressing, for Reres, is a performance. Moreover, it is a performance in which …
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Qos-aware fine-grained power management in networked computing systems
<p>Power is a major design concern of today's networked computing systems, from low-power battery-powered mobile and embedded systems to high-power enterprise servers. Embedded systems are required to be power efficiency because most embedded systems are powered by battery with limited capacity. …
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Predictive power management for multi-core processors
… increasing due to the growth of data centers and pervasive computing. In 2006 data center energy usage in the United States reached 61 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh) at an annual cost of 4.5 billion USD [Pl08]. It is projected to reach 100 billion KWh by 2011 at a cost of 7.4 billion USD. The …
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Energy-aware system design using circuit reconfigurability with a focus on low-power SRAMs
… target competing design goals such as maximizing performance while minimizing energy. Moreover, they have to work efficiently under changing system dynamics and application loads. Thus, for better power and performance optimization, they need to adapt to different conditions on-the-fly. In this …
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An investigation of the Briggs' Vapor Injection Apparatus
… the possibility that there could be designed and built a water injection device that would operate under the conditions which were imposed on the Briggs' Vapor Jet for the purpose of this investigation. If, however, such a device be built, it is felt that it must be subject to controls of many …
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Power Analysis and Prediction for Heterogeneous Computation
Power, performance, and cost dictate the procurement and operation of high-performance computing (HPC) systems. These systems use graphics processing units (GPUs) for performance boost. In order to identify inexpensive-to-acquire and inexpensive-to-operate systems, it is important to do a …
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Reduction of Power and Virtual Machine Migration Inside a Cloud Datacenter
… day by day, thus increasing the operation cost and carbon dioxide emission. To reduce the power consumption at a datacenter, a model with an adaptive threshold virtual machine (VM) consolidation method that reduces the number of VM migration and power consumption in the datacenter was used. By …
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K-hot pipelining
… domain now support techniques to trade off power and performance. Such techniques are used to enforce power and thermal constraints, manage power and thermal budgets and respond to temperature and aging. Unfortunately, many of the current techniques are limited in the dynamic range they …
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