Elasticity is one of the most known capabilities related to cloud computing, being largely deployed using thresholds. In this way, limits are used to drive resource mangement actions, leading to the following problem ...
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Elasticity is one of the most known capabilities related to cloud computing, being largely deployed using thresholds. In this way, limits are used to drive resource mangement actions, leading to the following problem statements: How can cloud users set the threshold values to enable elasticity in their cloud applications? And what is the impact of the application's load pattern in the elasticity? This article answers these questions for iterative high performance computing applications, showing the impact of both thresholds and load patterns on application performance and resource consumption. To accomplish this, we developed a reactive and PaaS-based elasticity model called AutoElastic and employed it over a private cloud to execute a numerical integration application. Here, we are presenting an analysis of best practices and possible optimizations regarding the elasticity and HPC pair. Considering the results, we observed that the upper threshold influences the application time more than the lower one.
Modelling of articulated figures such as simple hierarchical relationships are suitable for most cases of animation. Typically, for the representation of human and animal figures, a tree topology is sufficient. But co...
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(纸本)9789898565716
Modelling of articulated figures such as simple hierarchical relationships are suitable for most cases of animation. Typically, for the representation of human and animal figures, a tree topology is sufficient. But complex high-dimensional articulated structures with many end-effectors and the movement that can be generated in any joint in any direction, are extremely complex to model. Multi-legged robots made to attend applications which needs the extreme versatility to climb or move into places of very difficult access are more efficient if its joints can perform motion at standard and reverse direction, its segments can be moved by more than one joint and any of its joints can be the root of the motion chain. This article presents an approach to deal with these gaps in modeling the motion topology of legged-robots based on rotation of joints references frames. We also present an aplication of an hybrid algorithm based on Genetic Algorithm and Tabu Search to find a good quality solution to the robot motion sequences.
This paper describes a Software Agent called WSAgent, which combines technologies such as Web Services, Frameworks and Design Patterns in the construction of a bind to grant interoperability, reuse and flexibility bet...
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(纸本)1581138334
This paper describes a Software Agent called WSAgent, which combines technologies such as Web Services, Frameworks and Design Patterns in the construction of a bind to grant interoperability, reuse and flexibility between heterogeneous environments in the health domain.
The elastic provisioning of Virtual Infrastructures (VIs) enables a dynamic management of cloud resources (computing and communication) in order to meet the hosted application's requirements. Thus, to perform elas...
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The elastic provisioning of Virtual Infrastructures (VIs) enables a dynamic management of cloud resources (computing and communication) in order to meet the hosted application's requirements. Thus, to perform elasticity requests, providers usually rely on reallocation mechanisms and policies. The concerns regarding the environment and the operational costs indicate energy consumption of the data centers as recurring topic in providers policies. Moreover, energy-aware provisioning is beneficial for tenants also. Recent cost models have introduced an implicit incentive to use computing and networking resources just when need to avoid high rent costs. However, reallocation and elasticity requests can unbalance the Data Center (DC) unnecessarily increasing the number of active servers. In this paper we propose EAVIRA algorithm, which takes into account the proportional sharing of CPU usage of DC servers to calculate individual usage costs to: disable idle equipments, and reallocate VIs. EAVIRA acts on online requests for elasticity configuration and performs an offline load balancing, triggered by the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. Our experimental analysis indicates a reduction of energy consumption and an increasing on acceptance ratio of allocation requests.
Peripheral facial paralysis (PFP) causes deficits in muscle and sensory functions of the face due to damage to the facial nerve. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of the "Fisiobem" app in rehabil...
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The importance of faster drug development has never been more evident than in present time when the whole world is struggling to cope up with the COVID-19 pandemic. At times when timely development of effective drugs ...
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Attaining reliable and timely agricultural estimates is very important everywhere, and in Brazil, due to its characteristics, this is especially true. In this study, estimations of crop production were made based on t...
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Attaining reliable and timely agricultural estimates is very important everywhere, and in Brazil, due to its characteristics, this is especially true. In this study, estimations of crop production were made based on the temporal profiles of the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) obtained from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images. The objective was to evaluate the coupled model (CM) performance of crop area and crop yield estimates based solely on MODIS/EVI as input data in Rio Grande do Sul State, which is characterized by high variability in seasonal soybean yields, due to different crop development conditions. The resulting production estimates from CM were compared to official agricultural statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the National Company of Food Supply (CONAB) at different levels from 2000/2001 to 2010/2011 crop years. Results obtained with CM indicate that its application is able to generate timely production estimates for soybean both at municipality and local levels. Validation estimates with CM at State level obtained R2 = 0.95. Combining all cropping years at municipality level, estimates were highly correlated to official statistics from IBGE, with R2 = 0.91 and RMSD = 10,840 tons. Spatially interpolated comparisons of yield maps obtained from the CM estimates and IBGE data also showed visual similarity in their spatial distribution. Local level comparisons were performed and presented R2 = 0.95. Implications of this work point out that time-series analysis of production estimates are able to provide anticipated spatial information prior to the soybean harvest.
The use of electronic medias for payment has been increasingly adopted, instead of employing money in currency paper or check directly. Considering this electronic funds transfer (EFT) scenario, we developed a model c...
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(纸本)9781450324694
The use of electronic medias for payment has been increasingly adopted, instead of employing money in currency paper or check directly. Considering this electronic funds transfer (EFT) scenario, we developed a model called GetLB which comprises not only a completely new and efficient scheduler but also a cooperative communication infrastructure for handling heterogeneous and dynamic environments. The scientific contribution consists of a scheduling heuristic that combines static data from transactions and dynamic one from processing nodes to overcome the limitations of Round-Robin. Besides the GetLB's description, this article also presents a prototype evaluation by using both traces and configurations obtained with a real EFT company. Copyright 2014 ACM.
In this work a neural network model for climate forecasting is presented. The model is built by training a neural network with available reanalysis data. In order to assess the model, the development methodology consi...
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In this work a neural network model for climate forecasting is presented. The model is built by training a neural network with available reanalysis data. In order to assess the model, the development methodology considers the use of data reduction strategies that eliminate data redundancy thus reducing the complexity of the models. The results presented in this paper considered the use of Rough Sets Theory principles in extracting relevant information from the available data to achieve the reduction of redundancy among the variables used for forecasting purposes. The paper presents results of climate prediction made with the use of the neural network based model. The results obtained in the conducted experiments show the effectiveness of the methodology, presenting estimates similar to observations.
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