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T-Star (T*): An x86-64 ISA Extension to support thread execution on many cores
No full textThe number of cores per chip keeps increasing in order to improve performance while controlling the power. According to semiconductor roadmaps, future computing systems will reach the scale of 1 Tera devices in a single package and therefore many-core (e.g. 1000 or more) will be the norm. Here, we describe an ISE (ISA Extension) that we are experimenting in the x86-64 ISA in order to provide an efficient, fast support for fine-grained threads. The new ISE enables a different execution model based on the availability of data and opens the doors for many architectural optimizations not possible in current cores. We also describe the architectural support related to the T* extension
Characterizing Phase Behavior for Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures
No full textPrevious researches have shown most programs have phase behavior. We would like to take advantage of the phase behavior of applications to dynamically reconfigure an embedded platform in order to achieve more energy efficiency and performance. In this study, we first outline some aspects of the phase behavior with emphasis also on the influence of the Operating System (OS). We developed a tool chain to characterize the phase behavior of workloads (benchmarks) for embedded reconfigurable systems. Eight typical workloads are analyzed by using our tool chain. The results show that i) phase behavior can be relevant in workloads for embedded reconfigurable systems; ii) phase behavior (including the number of phases and the time spent in each phase) is reflected in several types of system metrics; iii) there are more phases when OS activities are involved for the same program; iv) the time spent by each phase of a program varies in a wide range. We believe the outcomes of this work can be used to guide the dynamic reconfiguration of components in embedded reconfigurable systems
Precision-Aware application execution for Energy-optimization in HPC node system
Full text linkPower consumption is a critical consideration in high performance computing
systems and it is becoming the limiting factor to build and operate Petascale
and Exascale systems. When studying the power consumption of existing systems
running HPC workloads, we find that power, energy and performance are closely
related which leads to the possibility to optimize energy consumption without
sacrificing (much or at all) the performance. In this paper, we propose a HPC
system running with a GNU/Linux OS and a Real Time Resource Manager (RTRM) that
is aware and monitors the healthy of the platform. On the system, an
application for disaster management runs. The application can run with
different QoS depending on the situation. We defined two main situations.
Normal execution, when there is no risk of a disaster, even though we still
have to run the system to look ahead in the near future if the situation
changes suddenly. In the second scenario, the possibilities for a disaster are
very high. Then the allocation of more resources for improving the precision
and the human decision has to be taken into account. The paper shows that at
design time, it is possible to describe different optimal points that are going
to be used at runtime by the RTOS with the application. This environment helps
to the system that must run 24/7 in saving energy with the trade-off of losing
precision. The paper shows a model execution which can improve the precision of
results by 65% in average by increasing the number of iterations from 1e3 to
1e4. This also produces one order of magnitude longer execution time which
leads to the need to use a multi-node solution. The optimal trade-off between
precision vs. execution time is computed by the RTOS with the time overhead
less than 10% against a native execution
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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