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A Case for the Accountable Cloud: For many companies, clouds are becoming an interesting alternative to a dedicated IT infrastructure. However, cloud computing also carries certain risks for both the customer and the cloud provider. The customer places his computation and data on machines he cannot directly control; the provider agrees to run a service whose...; Tags: Computation, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Strategy, Management, Human Resources; White papers 2009-09-17
OSXGeoCalc 2.7 (Mac): OSXGeoCalc is a Structural Geology calculator. It operates on lines and planes, strains, stresses, and drillcore data. Individual computations can be made using the calculator's interface. Multiple computations can be made using text files. Lines and planes can be visualized in a stereonet and stress and strain operations can be...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Computation, Plane, Nestor Cardozo, OSXGeoCalc, Desktops, Hardware; Software downloads 2009-05-13
On Availability of Intermediate Data in Cloud Computations: This paper takes a renewed look at the problem of managing intermediate data that is generated during dataflow computations (e.g., MapReduce, Pig, Dryad, etc.) within clouds. It discusses salient features of the intermediate data and outline requirements for a solution. Its experiments show that existing local write remote read solutions,...; Tags: University Of Illinois, Computation; White papers 2009-04-21
V# .NET Vector Geometry Library 1.3 (Windows): The V# vector geometry namespace for .NET provides more than 700 efficient and robust methods to solve complex 2D and 3D geometry tasks with a few lines of code. Very CAD-like, you easily instantiate geometric objects like points, lines, edges, planes, triangles, circles or ellipses in space. You may move,...; Tags: Geometry, 3D, Microsoft Windows, Computation, Ceometric, CAD, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software; Software downloads 2008-11-16
The Athlete's Calculator 1.0.2 (Mobile): The Athlete's Calculator from Stevens Creek Software lets you do computations involving time, distance, and pace time per distance or speed distance per time, and also converts between various units of distance and pace/speed.; Tags: Mobile, Athlete, Computation, Stevens Creek Software, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-08-21

RootM 1.2.3 (Mobile): RootM is an RPN scientific calculator for the Palm OS that natively supports computations containing imaginary numbers. This means that sqrt(-1) or asin(2) are valid computations, producing complex results. Complex numbers can be entered in real/imag format or mag/phase format in a straightforward way. Quickly switch between real/imag and phasor...; Tags: Mobile, Computation, Creative Creek, RootM, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-04-08
UK government sponsoring computer games?: A computer scientist at University College London UCL has developed new algorithms which can quickly add indirect light to computer simulated scenes. According to UCL, 'Dr Jan Kautz has developed a fast method that models the path of light as it bounces off surfaces.' His new algorithms have the potential...; Tags: Algorithm, Computer Game, Computation, Hardware, Graphics, Computer, Graphics Hardware, Government, Productivity, Games, Vertical Industries, Engineering, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-03-09
Hierarchical Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing for Scientific Computation: Cluster and grid computing has made hierarchical and heterogeneous computing systems increasingly common as target environments for large-scale scientific computation. A cluster may consist of a network of multiprocessors. A grid computation may involve communication across slow interfaces. Modern supercomputers are often large clusters with hierarchical network structures. For maximum...; Tags: Network, Load Balancing, Computation, Williams College, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2008-01-01
Dynamic Load Balancing for Distributed Search: This paper examines how computation can be mapped across the nodes of a distributed search system to effectively utilize available resources. It specifically address computationally intensive search of complex data, such as content-based retrieval of digital images or sounds, where sophisticated algorithms must be evaluated on the objects of interest....; Tags: Load Balancing, Node, Computation, Storage, Networking, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01
Towards an Active Network Architecture: Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the network. An extreme case, in which one is most interested, replaces packets with "Capsules" - program fragments that are executed at each network router/switch they traverse. Active architectures permit a massive increase in the sophistication of...; Tags: Network, Network Architecture, Computation, Networking; White papers 2008-01-01
Computing Aggregates for Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks: Wireless sensor networks involve very large numbers of small, low-power, wireless devices. Given their unattended nature, and their potential applications in harsh environments, the paper needs a monitoring infrastructure that indicates system failures and resource depletion. This paper briefly describes an architecture for sensor network monitoring, then focus on one...; Tags: University Of Southern California, Network, Wireless Communication, Monitoring, Computation, Computing, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers 2008-01-01
Google's MapReduce Programming Model - Revisited: Google's MapReduce programming model serves for processing large data sets in a massively parallel manner. The first rigorous description of the model including its advancement as Google's domain-specific language Sawzall is discussed in the paper. To this end, the seminal papers are reverse-engineered on MapReduce and Sawzall, and the findings...; Tags: Google Inc., Specification, Computation; White papers 2007-10-20
Decimal Floating Point Computations in SAP NetWeaver 7.10: Most processor architectures support binary floating point in hardware. However, binary floating point is not suitable for financial or humancentric applications. SAP NetWeaver 7.10 ABAP kernel introduces a new SAP ABAP data type called "DECFLOAT" to enable more accurate and consistent results from decimal floating point computations. The new data...; Tags: SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Computation, SAP NetWeaver 7.10 ABAP Kernel, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2007-10-01
Stephen Wolfram: Reinventing Mathematica: I remember when Mathematica came on the scene in 1988. It worked on a Macintosh and was far beyond any math program that came before. Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of the Wolfram Research, got his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech when he was 20, and focused on...; Tags: Science, General; Blog posts 2007-05-01
cns Earthworks 1.0.0.0 (Mobile): This is an earthworks computation that perform volume computation based on grid system method. It is usefull when user need some quantities computation at site where PC is not available. User has to setup grid system and obtain all existing levels and proposed levels. Horizontal and vertical grid dimension. With...; Tags: Mobile, C, Computation, C & S SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS SDN BDN, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Software downloads 2007-02-20
Towards Topology Aware Networks: This paper focuses on efficient protocols that enhance a network with topology awareness. This paper discusses centralized algorithms with provable performance, and introduces decentralized asynchronous heuristics that use only local information and local computations. These algorithms are based on distributed solutions of convex programs expressing optimization of various spectral properties...; Tags: Algorithm, Eigenvalue, Network Topology, Matrix, Network, Computation, Engineering; White papers 2007-01-31
Hypergraph-Based Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Scientific Computations: Adaptive scientific computations require that periodic repartitioning load balancing occur dynamically to maintain load balance. Hypergraph partitioning is a successful model for minimizing communication volume in scientific computations, and partitioning software for the static case is widely available. This paper presents a new hypergraph model for the dynamic case, where...; Tags: Load Balancing, Computation, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-01-22
Study of Network on Chip Resources Allocation for QoS Management: The increasing complexity of integrated circuits and application requirements drive the research of new on-chip interconnection architectures. A network on chip draws on concepts inherited from distributed systems and computer networks subject areas to interconnect IP cores in a structured and scalable way. The main goal pursued is to achieve...; Tags: QoS, Network, Allocation, Computation, Chip, Science Publications, Networking, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware; White papers 2006-10-18
HeikinAshi4MetaStock 1 (Windows): Heikin Ashi4MetaStock is a software program that allows MetastockTM users to create and update Heikin Ashi data files in MetaStockTM. The program creates data files with modified open, high, low, close values and according to the computation rules for Heikin-ashi trend technique. Once these data files are created/updated, they can...; Tags: Computation, Trading-Tools, Heikin Ashi4MetaStock, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2006-09-26
Quantum computing without computing: What would happen if you powered up your computer and it gave you some results before opening any program? You would probably think that some kind of malware has infested your system. But with the optical quantum computer designed by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC, this...; Tags: quantum computer, algorithm; Blog posts 2006-02-23