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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
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
OASiS: A Programming Framework for Service-Oriented Sensor Networks: Wireless sensor networks consist of small, inexpensive devices which interact with the environment, communicate with each other, and perform distributed computations in order to monitor spatio-temporal phenomena. These devices are ideally suited for a variety of applications including object tracking, environmental monitoring, and homeland security. OASiS uses a well-defined model...; Tags: Network, Sensor, Vanderbilt University, Computation, Programming, OASiS, Research & Development, Homeland Security, Business Operations, Government; White papers 2006-11-21
The Essence of Dataflow Programming: The paper proposes a novel, comonadic approach to dataflow (stream-based) computation. This is based on the observation that both general and causal stream functions can be characterized as coKleisli arrows of comonads and on the intuition that comonads in general must be a good means to structure context-dependent computation. In...; Tags: Computation; White papers 2006-11-09
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
PMPI: A Multi-Platform, Multi-Programming Language MPI Using .NET: Implementation of the MPI standard on heterogeneous platforms is desirable because it permits using resources discarded by existing MPI implementations of homogenous systems. This paper describes PMPI, as partial implementation of the MPI standard on a heterogeneous platform. Unlike other MPI implementations, PMPI permits MPI processes written in different programming...; Tags: Implementation, Computation, University Of Sao Paulo, PMPI, MPI, .Net, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2006-05-02