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High Performance Reconfigurable Computing: From Applications to Hardware

This paper presents their experience in programming Field Programmable Gate Arrays FPGAs in the context of high performance digital signal and data processing. In particular, the paper presents the concept of hardware skeletons as a mean to bridge the gap between high level applications and low level hardware, and satisfy...

Tags: High-performance, Hardware, Computing, University Of Edinburgh

White papers 2008-02-19

Java for High Performance Computing

Java offers a number of benefits as a language for High Performance Computing HPC, especially in the context of the Computational Grid. The first section of this paper summarises these benefits with an aim of motivating the use of Java for HPC. Although Java offers a number of potential benefits,...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, University Of Edinburgh, Cloud Computing, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Formalising the Proximate Semantics of XML Languages With UML, OWL and GRDDL

Many XML languages are defined in two steps, the first in terms of a mapping from XML documents to an abstract data model, the second by defining the meaning of the constituents of the abstract data model with respect to some domain. Another is W3C XML Schema, which explicitly separates...

Tags: OWL, Semantics, UML, University Of Edinburgh, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Current Issues in Software Engineering for Natural Language Processing

In Natural Language Processing NLP, research results from software engineering and software technology have often been neglected. This paper describes some factors that add complexity to the task of engineering reusable NLP systems beyond conventional software systems. Current work in the area of design patterns and composition languages is described...

Tags: Software, Natural Language Processing, Software Engineering, Natural Language, University Of Edinburgh

White papers 2008-01-01

Migration of User Data From Exchange Servers 'Tara' and 'eDiarycs' to OCS Server 'eDiary'

Companies are facing the ever-increasing challenge of managing the explosive growth of valuable data. As the predominant form of communication for business transactions, email is an application that is mission critical to organizations of all sizes. It generates a huge amount of information that must be immediately available and protected....

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Server, User Data, Migration, University Of Edinburgh, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers 2007-09-12

Audiovisual Speech Recognition With Articulator Positions as Hidden Variables

Speech recognition, by both humans and machines, benefits from visual observation of the face, especially at low Signal-to-Noise Ratios SNRs. It has often been noticed, however, that the audible and visible correlates of a phoneme may be asynchronous; perhaps for this reason, automatic speech recognition structures that allow asynchrony between...

Tags: University Of Edinburgh, Speech Recognition, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2007-05-29

High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing - The View From Edinburgh

This paper reviews the current state of the art in High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing HPRC from the perspective of EPCC, the high-performance computing centre at the University of Edinburgh. They look at architectural and programming trends and assess some of the challenges that HPRC needs to address in order to drive...

Tags: High-performance, Computing, University Of Edinburgh, Leadership, Management

White papers 2007-04-20

Links: Web Programming Without Tiers

Links is a programming language for web applications that generates code for all three tiers of a web application from a single source, compiling into JavaScript to run on the client and into SQL to run on the database. Links supports rich clients running in what has been dubbed 'Ajax'...

Tags: Web, JavaScript, Web Application, Client, University Of Edinburgh, Links, AJAX, Scripting Languages, Cloud Computing, Programming Languages, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software Development

White papers 2007-03-19

Using Classification as a Programming Language

The experience in the IDAS natural language generation project has shown that IDAS'S KLONE- like classifier, originally built solely to hold a domain knowledge base, could also be used to perform many of the computations required by a natural-language generation system; in fact it seems possible to use the classifier...

Tags: Natural Language, Programming Language, Classification, Programming, University Of Edinburgh, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-12-26

Evaluating Quality of Service for Service Level Agreements

Quantitative analysis of quality-of-service metrics is an important tool in early evaluation of service provision. This analysis depends on being able to estimate the average duration of critical activities used by the service but at the earliest stages of service planning it may be impossible to obtain accurate estimates of...

Tags: SLA, QoS, Quantitative Analysis, Duration, University Of Edinburgh, Cloud Computing

White papers 2006-06-21

Performance of 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Cards With Server Quality Motherboards

System administrators often assume that just by plugging in a Gigabit Ethernet Interface, the system will deliver line rate performance; sadly this is not often the case. The behaviour of various 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface cards has been investigated using server quality motherboards. The latency, throughput, and...

Tags: Card, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Performance, Server, Gigabit Ethernet, Motherboard, University Of Edinburgh, Ethernet, Performance Management, Network Technology, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2006-02-08

Spyware/Adware - The Risks

Malware is the generic term for malicious code which is executed on a computer. This paper attempts to describe what adware and spyware are, what effects they can have on a system and what risks are associated with them. Most users are probably familiar with other forms of malware such...

Tags: Adware, Malware, University Of Edinburgh, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

White papers 2005-08-26

Specification and Satisfaction of SLAs in Service Oriented Architectures

This paper presents two essential aspects related to the specification of Quality of Service QoS in service oriented architectures. Firstly an overview is presented of the concepts and requirements that a language for the specification of QoS agreements (Service Level Agreements, or SLAs) must address, and how the WSLA language...

Tags: SLA, Specification, SOA, University Of Edinburgh, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2005-02-15

Knowledge Management Using Business Process Modeling and Workflow Techniques

Enterprise Modeling EM methods are recognised for their value in providing a more organised way to describe a complex, informal domain. A problem with EM is that it does not always provide direct input for software system development. One way of bridging this gap is to provide a formalisation, here...

Tags: Technique, Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Knowledge, Domain, Workflow, Knowledge Management, Modeling, University Of Edinburgh, Enterprise Modeling Method, FWFL, Operational Planning, Research & Development, Business Operations

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XML Constraints: Specification, Analysis, and Applications

To make effective use of XML constraints it is often necessary to reason about them, both at compile-time for consistency and implication analyses and at run-time for incremental constraint checking. Since XML constraints are more complicated than relational dependencies, the static analyses of XML constraints are more intriguing than their...

Tags: Constraint, Specification, Analysis, University Of Edinburgh, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers

Scottish University Cuts Deployment Times by Three Quarters With Management Solution

The University of Edinburgh is one of Britain's oldest seats of learning. The university has always delivered high-performing students and ground-breaking research, and built a reputation for all-round excellence. This reputation also extends to the institution's IT infrastructure and the support of Edinburgh University Computing Services EUCS. Students use specialist...

Tags: University, Microsoft Corp., University Of Edinburgh, Productivity, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking

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University Uses Hosted Filtering Solution to Reduce Spam by 85 Percent

Edinburgh Napier University wanted to improve its system of filtering e-mail messages. The university's IT staff were creating manual rules to block spam, an effort that generated too many false positives and was not the most productive use of their time. A software upgrade would have required capital expenditures for...

Tags: e-Mail Message, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Software Upgrade, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-05-01

Happy 5th birthday Facebook; free gifts for everybody

Well looky-here! Facebook turns five today, and don't we all know it. The world's most popular social networking website has been around for half a decade and has been a major part of our social online, and offline lives. With over 150 million people from all corners...

Tags: Facebook, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-04

sBOOKs - Robert Louis Stevenson 101.01 (Windows)

See 15 ebooks from R. L. Stevevson in one easy to use application. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13 November 1850. He studied at Edinburgh University and also qualified as a lawyer. He travelled extensively in Europe and began his writing career during these years. He...

Tags: SmartSolutions, E-books, Professional Development, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Career, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft

As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in...

Tags: NASA, Patent, Unit, Hardware, FPGA, Computer, UA, UA Engineer, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-25