HiCOO: Hierarchical cooperation for scalable communication in Global Address Space programming models on Cray XT systems

Global Address Space (GAS) programming models enable a convenient, shared-memory style addressing model. Typically this is realized through one-sided operations that can enable asynchronous communication and data movement. With the size of petascale systems reaching 10,000s of nodes and 100,000s of cores, the underlying runtime systems face critical challenges in (1) scalably managing resources (such as memory for communication buffers), and (2) gracefully handling unpredictable communication patterns and any associated contention. For any solution that addresses these resource scalability challenges, equally important is the need to maintain the performance of GAS programming models. In this paper, we describe a Hierarchical COOperation (HiCOO) architecture for scalable communication in GAS programming models. HiCOO formulates a cooperative communication architecture: with inter-node cooperation amongst multiple nodes (a.k.a multinode) and hierarchical cooperation among multinodes that are arranged in various virtual topologies. We have implemented HiCOO for a popular GAS runtime library, Aggregate Remote Memory Copy Interface (ARMCI). By extensively evaluating different virtual topologies in HiCOO in terms of their impact to memory scalability, network contention, and application performance, we identify MFCG as the most suitable virtual topology. The resulting HiCOO architecture is able to realize scalable resource management and achieve resilience to network contention, while at the same time maintaining or enhancing the performance of scientific applications. In one case, it reduces the total execution time of an NWChem application by 52%.     

Satisfying quality requirements in the design of a partition‐based,distributed stock trading system

Although quality requirements (QRs) have become a major drive in today's software development, there have been very few real‐world examples in the literature that demonstrate how to meet these requirements. This paper presents such an example. Specifically, the paper describes the design of a partition‐based distributed stock trading service system that satisfies a set of QRs related to resource utilization, performance, scalability and availability. The paper evaluates this design through detailed experiments and discusses some design alternatives and the lessons learned. Central to this design are a static load distribution strategy and a dynamic load balancing strategy. The first strategy is to achieve an initial balanced workload on the system's server cluster during the system initialization time, whereas the second strategy is to maintain this balanced workload throughout the system execution time. Together, these two strategies work in unison to ensure that the server resources are efficiently utilized; the user requests are processed with the required speed; the application is partitioned with sufficient room to scale; and the system is highly available. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

面向机器自动识别的方位词“中”的用法规则研究

构建面向机器的现代汉语方位词知识库(方位词用法机器词典、方位词用法规则库),对于现代汉语方位词用法的自动识别研究具有重要的意义。致力于面向机器的方位词"中"的用法自动识别研究,以《人民日报》2000年1月-6月的语料作为实验数据,通过对其原始规则的自动识别结果的分析,调整和改进了面向机器识别的方位词"中"的规则描述,把方位词"中"的用法识别准确率由12.88%提高到86.35%,使现代汉语方位词用法规则库得到了进一步完善。     

基于Matlab GUI的数字滤波器设计及其应用

基于数字信号处理原理,在分析数字滤波器设计理论和Matlab编程技术及其GUI图形用户界面设计的基础上,开发了具有交互式特点的数字滤波器软件,界面操作简单方便,可以根据需要选择滤波器类型,输入相关参数,然后选择相应的功能按钮,就可以得到滤波器的特性参数,并进行滤波器的性能分析,打破了以往滤波器设计过程中大量繁琐的数值计算问题,为数字滤波器的设计和应用提供了一个有效的辅助工具。     

Atropine and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction

Six asthmatic children were studied to determine whether supplemental, parenteral atropine would increase the effects of bronchodilation and protection against exercise-induced bronchoconstriction after maximal effects had been achieved by inhalation. First, we determined the amount of inhaled atropine sulfate that would give maximal bronchodilation for each patient at rest. This quantity of atropine was designated as "A." Then all subjects exercised for five sessions with the following pre-exercise treatments in a random order: (a) inhaled distilled water plus intramuscular (IM) saline solution; (b) inhaled A dose of atropine plus IM saline solution; (c) inhaled distilled water plus 0.35 mg IM atropine; (d) inhaled A dose of atropine plus 0.35 mg IM atropine; and (e) inhaled double the A dose plus IM saline solution. The results showed that the combination of inhaled and IM atropine had the greatest bronchodilation effect and the greatest protection against exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Atropine inhalation alone (A dose) or IM injection (0.35 mg) was not as effective in bronchodilation or in alleviation of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Doubling the dose of inhalation (2A) did not increase the effects of the A dose. These results support the hypothesis that inhaled atropine does not reach all the airways where cholinergic receptors are present.     

Electrical properties of BaTiO3-based NTC thermistors doped by BaBiO3 and La2O3

In our research it has been firstly found that BaTiO₃ materials doped with BaBiO₃ only show negative temperature coefficient effect over a wide temperature range. Major phases present in the sintered bodies are BaTiO₃ compounds with a perovskite structure and BaBiO₃ compounds with a monoclinic structure. Also, at a given BaTiO₃ and BaBiO₃ content, the influence of La₂O₃ content on the microstructure and electrical properties has been investigated. The mean grain size of samples decreases with an increase in La₂O₃ content. However the mean grain size remains unchanged with a further increase in La₂O₃ content when the La₂O₃ content in material is more than 0.20. As the amount of La₂O₃ in BaTiO₃-based ceramics thermistors increases, the resistivity decreases to a minimum value and then slowly increases again.     

Feasibility study of the application of voltage contrast to printed circuit board

Voltage contrast (VC) has been a powerful tool for the failure analysis of integrated circuits and multichip module. As the packing density of printed circuit board (PCB) is increasing, conventional failure analysis methods to detect open or short circuit in PCBs are no longer adequate, and voltage contrast method could be a method for this purpose. However, unlike the cases of integrated circuits and multichip module, there are many areas in PCB that will produce serious charging effect when examine under the scanning electron microscope. One of the areas is the presence of solder mask on PCB.This work examines the feasibility of using voltage contrast for PCB failure analysis. Specially designed PCB is used for experimentation, and it is found that positive bias on one track and zero bias on another copper track provide a better image contrast as compared to negative and zero biases on the tracks. Also, the variation of the image contrast with different spacing between inter copper tracks has studied. It is found that the variation depends on the presence of solder mask and its location. The variation can be very different for negative bias case as compared to the positive bias case.Finite element analysis is also performed to explain the experimental observations. All the observations can be well explained by the charging effect of the solder masks. The charging effect of solder mask is indeed very significant in affecting the image contrast, and it could reduce the contrast to almost zero in some cases.     

低通平滑滤波对网络流量自相似性质的影响

从Hurst参数的小波估计方法出发,介绍了平滑滤波后的网络基础(低频)流量和原始流量在自相似性质的上表现规律,探讨了低通平滑滤波对流量自相似性质的影响。     

山西移动NGN建设探讨

首先着重分析了山西移动本地NGN的需求。阐述了山西移动NGN建设需要考虑的因素．最后就山西移动NGN的网络建设策略提出了具体的建议。     

基于GIS的道路事故黑点聚类应用研究

由于地理信息系统中数据的多样性和空间复杂性,在GIS数据空间挖掘时原有的挖掘算法会遇到一些新问题。本文针对城市道路网中交通事故黑点发掘问题,对基于密度的DBSCAN算法进行改进,使改进后的算法能够确保聚类仅在连通空间内进行。最后以某市交通事故数据为例对该方法进行验证,实验结果表明此方法是有效的。