A major trend in recent cluster communication systems is to circumvent the operating system during the actual data transfers. That, on the one hand, reduces latency since there is no user-kernel transition needed and,...
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Recent trends in the image processing field have led to the use of more heterogeneous hardware architectures. The reason for this increase is that specialized cores, compared to standard CPUs, offer a more efficient w...
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Through continued miniaturization of electronic devices embedded smart cameras are steadily becoming more and more important. The reduction of the camera size increases the spectrum of applications. In industrial appl...
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The user interface generation process is still a complex issue. The manual creation process is time consuming and complex because it requires the combination of the application developer work and the user interface de...
Extreme scale HPC systems are expected to reach exascale performance around the year 2020. While it is widely known that theses systems pose new challenges regarding energy efficiency of architectures, concurrency and...
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Most methods that compute trajectories for un- or low-powered flight operate under simplifying assumptions such as constant curve radii and wind conditions. Likewise, changes of air density with altitude that lead to ...
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Most methods that compute trajectories for un- or low-powered flight operate under simplifying assumptions such as constant curve radii and wind conditions. Likewise, changes of air density with altitude that lead to significant differences between equivalent airspeed (EAS) und true airspeed (TAS) are often not considered. Some approaches are based on Dubins paths, which are introduced in Dubins LE (Am J Math 79: 497, 1957). They combine three sections to form a trajectory, which is the shortest from a given start to an end position (In the original work, the position extended by the heading, is referred to as configuration. Since configuration has a different connotation in our context, we use the term state, which can contain other parameters in addition to the position and the heading, e.g. orientation, configuration of landing flaps, landing gear, etc.). A maximum distant landing spot can be reached this way. Often, the targeted landing spot is closer to the aircraft. If it is approached using a Dubins Path, the excess height must be dealt with. Here, we present a method addressing the problem directly, namely finding a trajectory which reduces the excess height over its entire length. Furthermore, it takes spatial and temporal changes of wind and air density into account. Several conditions influence the final shape of the trajectory. For example, avoidance of obstacles and predefined areas is easily achieved. Our method is motivated by kinematic chains, which are used in robotics and computer animation. We extend and modify this principle by incrementally transferring start and end states of the trajectory, modelled as state vectors, into each other. The resulting intermediate states form ends of chain links. To connect initial and final states through the resulting chain, we solve the inverse kinematic problem known from robotics. We extend it by several conditions, which are derived from the flight mechanical characteristics of the modeled aircraft on the on
Current trends and studies on future architectures show, that the complexity of parallel computer systems is increasing steadily. Hence, the industry requires skilled employees, who have in addition to the theoretical...
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Current trends and studies on future architectures show, that the complexity of parallel computer systems is increasing steadily. Hence, the industry requires skilled employees, who have in addition to the theoretical fundamentals, practical experiences in the design and administration of such systems. However, investigations have shown, that practical approaches are still missing in current curricula, especially in these areas. For this reason, the chair of computerarchitecture at the faculty of computerscience at the Technische Universiẗat Dresden, developed and introduced the course “Linux Cluster in Theory and Practice” (LCTP). The main objectives of this course are to provide background knowledge about the design and administration of large-scale parallel computer systems and the practical implementation on the available hardware. In addition, students learn how to solve problems in a structured approach and as part of a team. This paper analyzes the current variety of courses in the area of parallel computing systems, describes the structure and implementation of LCTP and provides first conclusions and an outlook on possible further developments.
Evolutionary algorithms are one of the most popular forms of optimization algorithms. They are comparatively easy to use and were successfully employed for a wide variety of practical applications. However, frequently...
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In this paper we investigate how stencil computations can be implemented on state-of-the-art general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs). Stencil codes can be found at the core of many numerical solvers and phy...
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In this paper we investigate how stencil computations can be implemented on state-of-the-art general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs). Stencil codes can be found at the core of many numerical solvers and physical simulation codes and are therefore of particular interest to scientific computing research. GPGPUs have gained a lot of attention recently because of their superior floating point performance and memory bandwidth. Nevertheless, especially memory bound stencil codes have proven to be challenging for GPGPUs, yielding lower than to be expected speedups. We chose the Jacobi method as a standard benchmark to evaluate a set of algorithms on NVIDIA's latest Fermi chipset. One of our fastest algorithms is a parallel wavefront update. It exploits the enlarged on-chip shared memory to perform two time step updates per sweep. To the best of our knowledge, it represents the first successful applicationof temporal blocking for 3D stencils on GPGPUs and thereby exceeds previous results by a considerable margin. It is also the first paper to study stencil codes on Fermi.
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