Dedicated hardware implementations of artificial neural networks promise to provide faster, lower power operation when compared to software implementations executing on processors. Unfortunately, custom hardware imple...
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Dedicated hardware implementations of artificial neural networks promise to provide faster, lower power operation when compared to software implementations executing on processors. Unfortunately, custom hardware implementations do not support intrinsic training of these networks on-chip. Training is typically done using software simulations and the obtained network is synthesized and targeted to hardware offline. The ANN FPGA design presented here facilitates dynamic network structure and parameter changes required for intrinsic training of artificial neural networks, without reliance on runtime FPGA reconfigurations. This is an important feature for an online trainable system as typical reconfiguration cycle times on the order of a few milliseconds pose to be a major performance bottleneck for iterative training algorithms. The designed platform implements block-based neural networks and can be evolved and adapted in-field.
Sixty-two years after the first photos of earth taken by a camera aboard a V-2 rocket in October, 1946, and forty-eight years since the first CORONA satellite images were captured, the status of remote sensing researc...
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Sixty-two years after the first photos of earth taken by a camera aboard a V-2 rocket in October, 1946, and forty-eight years since the first CORONA satellite images were captured, the status of remote sensing research and applications within the African continent has made dramatic progress. Many African countries now have remote sensing research centers, within government agencies, research institutes and universities. Some countries in Africa currently have earth observing and/or telecommunications satellites in orbit and/or have such assets in various planning stages. The authors document such progress, in addition to the constraints to further applications of remote sensing for sustainable development in Africa, with special reference to data distribution constraints. Moreover, the authors address the urgency for bandwidth improvements within the African continent, so as to enable sustainable development initiatives to benefit from advances in highperformancecomputing, required for ab initio near-real-time analysis of satellite-data. Such capabilities, it is argued, are propaedeutic for time-critical initiatives, such as vulnerability assessment, disaster preparedness and mitigation, emergency response, humanitarian assistance and post-calamity reconstruction, associated with a wide array of biogenic and anthropogenic disasters. Case studies of advances in infrastructure for satellite remote sensing and highperformancecomputing, with implications for sustainable development in Africa, are provided from Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa.
In this paper, we report on implementing an experimental distributed computing application for bioinformatics consisting of basic high-performancecomputing environments (Grid and PC Cluster systems), multiple interfa...
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(纸本)1595934804;9781595934802
In this paper, we report on implementing an experimental distributed computing application for bioinformatics consisting of basic high-performancecomputing environments (Grid and PC Cluster systems), multiple interfaces at user portals that provide useful graphical interfaces to enable biologists who are not IT specialists to benefit directly from the use of high-performance technology. Copyright 2007 ACM.
Garbage collection is a memory management mechanism for automatically reclaiming garbage objects in memory. It can effectively relieve the programmers' burden and optimize the design of programs. Currently many ga...
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Garbage collection is a memory management mechanism for automatically reclaiming garbage objects in memory. It can effectively relieve the programmers' burden and optimize the design of programs. Currently many garbage collection methods for distributed systems have been put forth as the distributed systems are more and more popular. Relaxed consistency model is a very important kind of memory consistency model in distributed system, but it is inefficiently to perform garbage collection in the Distributed shared memory system (DSM) on relaxed memory model with traditional methods. This article proposes a trace-based garbage collection algorithm for DSM system based on relaxed memory model. Our algorithm notes the references among active objects of every node in DSM system, which makes the application process and the collection process able to execute concurrently. And it makes use of the relaxed consistency model's features to reduce communication cost and response delay. Furthermore, the use of two tables insures the algorithm correct and effective. This algorithm displays its advantages of real-time and incremental, and it is proved to be correct and effective.
A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP),as the most common form of genetic variation,has been widely studied to help analyze the possible association between diseases and *** gain more information,SNPs on a single chro...
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A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP),as the most common form of genetic variation,has been widely studied to help analyze the possible association between diseases and *** gain more information,SNPs on a single chromosome are usually studied together,which constitute a *** haplotypes from biological experiments is usually very costly and time-consuming,which causes people to develop efficient methods to determine haplotypes from the computational *** problems and algorithms about haplotypes have been proposed to reduce the cost of studies of disease *** general,four categories of problems are widely researched:the haplotype assembly problem,the haplotype inference problem,the haplotype block partition problem,and the haplotype tagging SNP selection *** former two problems have been well reviewed by many researchers,whereas the latter two have not been comprehensively surveyed to our *** this paper,we try to make a detailed introduction to the four problems,especially the latter two.
Efficiently supporting advanced OLAP visualization of multidimensional data cubes is a novel and challenging research topic, which results to be of interest for a large family of data warehouse applications relying on...
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In this paper,the state-of-the-art parallel computational model research is *** will introduce various models that were developed during the past *** to their targeting architecture features,especially memory organiza...
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In this paper,the state-of-the-art parallel computational model research is *** will introduce various models that were developed during the past *** to their targeting architecture features,especially memory organization,we classify these parallel computational models into three *** models and their characteristics are discussed based on three generations *** believe that with the ever increasing speed gap between the CPU and memory systems,incorporating non-uniform memory hierarchy into computational models will become *** the emergence of multi-core CPUs,the parallelism hierarchy of current computing platforms becomes more and more *** this complicated parallelism hierarchy in future computational models becomes more and more important.A semi-automatic toolkit that can extract model parameters and their values on real computers can reduce the model analysis complexity,thus allowing more complicated models with more parameters to be *** memory and hierarchical parallelism will be two very important features that should be considered in future model design and research.
In this paper, we present a scalable parallel simulator - MPUS - for verifying the design of our next generation highperformance parallel computer - RedNeurons(RN) parallel computer. The RedNeurons parallel computer ...
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(纸本)9781595937575
In this paper, we present a scalable parallel simulator - MPUS - for verifying the design of our next generation highperformance parallel computer - RedNeurons(RN) parallel computer. The RedNeurons parallel computer is based on CMP technology, and it adopts an advanced but maybe some complicated architecture and topology. This paper mainly describes the design and implementation of the MPUS.
Energy efficiency is one of the most important issues in IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop networks. In this paper we study the transmission rate selection on a path in the networks. The objective is to minimize the total e...
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Energy efficiency is one of the most important issues in IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop networks. In this paper we study the transmission rate selection on a path in the networks. The objective is to minimize the total energy consumption over the entire path subject to delay constraint. We formulate it as a multiple-choice knapsack problem, which has been proved to be NP-hard, and present an adaptive greedy rate selection algorithm (AGRSA) to get the near-optimal answer. The simulation results show that AGRSA can reduce more than 20% energy consumption than the classic technique that all nodes transmit packets with the highest rate.
Parallel loop scheduling on grid environments is a challenging problem, especially for loops with irregular workload distribution. In the past, this problem of load imbalance resulting from irregular workload was not ...
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