In2O3 + xBaO (x = 0.5-5 at.%) - A novel material for trace level detection of NOx in the ambient

Indium oxide (In₂O₃) doped with 0.5-5 at.% of Ba was examined for their response towards trace levels of NO_x in the ambient. Crystallographic phase studies, electrical conductivity and sensor studies for NO_x with cross interference for hydrogen, petroleum gas (PG) and ammonia were carried out. Bulk compositions with x ≤ 1 at.% of Ba exhibited high response towards NO_x with extremely low cross interference for hydrogen, PG and ammonia, offering high selectivity. Thin films of 0.5 at.% Ba doped In₂O₃ were deposited using pulsed laser deposition technique using an excimer laser (KrF) operating at a wavelength of (λ) 248 nm with a fluence of ∼3 J/cm² and pulsed at 10 Hz. Thin film sensors exhibited better response towards 3 ppm NO_x quite reliably and reproducibly and offer the potential to develop NO_x sensors (Threshold limit value of NO₂ and NO is 3 and 25 ppm, respectively).     

Exploiting the performance gains of modern disk drives by enhancing data locality

Due to the widening performance gap between RAM and disk drives, a large number of I/O optimization methods have been proposed and designed to alleviate the impact of this gap. One of the most effective approaches of improving disk access performance is enhancing data locality. This is because the method could increase the hit ratio of disk cache and reduce the seek time and rotational latency. Disk drives have experienced dramatic development since the first disk drive was announced in 1956. This paper investigates some important characteristics of modern disk drives. Based on the characteristics and the observation that data access on disk drives is highly skewed, the frequently accessed data blocks and the correlated data blocks are clustered into objects and moved to the outer zones of a modern disk drive. The idea attempts to enhance spatial locality, improve the efficiency of aggressive sequential prefetch, and take advantage of Zoned Bit Recording (ZBR). An experimental simulation is employed to investigate the performance gains generated by the enhanced data locality. The performance gains are analyzed by breaking down the disk access time into seek time, rotational latency, data transfer time, and hit ratio of the disk cache. Experimental results provide useful insights into the performance behaviours of a modern disk drive with enhanced data locality.     

面向Lustre文件系统的固态盘存储加速技术研究

磁盘的随机I/O延时制约了存储系统的性能提高,具备高性能随机I/O特性的固态盘(solid state disk,SSD)逐渐成为关注的热点.分析了磁盘、Flash型SSD以及DRAM型SSD三类设备不同的性能特点,讨论了SSD存储加速技术的研究现状,提出了一种面向Lustre文件系统的固态盘存储加速系统架构,介绍和分析了各模块的构成与原理,提出了对象迁移策略.     

多虚拟机实时迁移中自适应的迁移算法选择框架

IaaS云计算平台中主要通过实时迁移多台虚拟机来实现资源的动态调度、管理与优化。虽然Pre-copy和Post-copy是单虚拟机实时迁移的两种主流算法,且各有优缺点,但现有的多虚拟机实时迁移系统只是单一地使用其中一种迁移算法,无法根据各虚拟机的不同负载情况灵活选择最有效的迁移算法,降低了整体迁移效率。提出一种自适应的实时迁移算法选择框架,利用模糊聚类方法对待迁移的多虚拟机进行分类,按类别选择最适合的迁移算法。实验结果表明,所提出的迁移算法选择框架能够在多虚拟机实时迁移中发挥两个迁移算法的各自优势,有效提高整体的实时迁移性能。     

RT-Thread的SPI总线驱动结构分析 、移植及应用

介绍了串行外设接口SPI的通信原理,对RT Thread操作系统下的SPI总线驱动结构进行了详细的研究与分析.以STM32F407ZG对W25Q64的读写为例,介绍了硬件SPI总线驱动的移植步骤,并详细介绍了SPI应用程序设计及技术实施细节.最后通过实验,对SPI驱动移植及程序设计的可行性及有效性进行验证,实验结果表明,RT Thread操作系统下的SPI总线驱动结构设计合理,移植方便且应用程序设计简单,本文所介绍的移植与应用方法可行有效.     

基于代价感知的云任务处理策略

绿色云计算旨在保证服务质量的前提下,最大限度地降低云服务成本．针对这一问题,提出一种兼顾云数据中心高性能和低成本的策略,通过虚拟机动态迁移等技术进行云任务聚合,关闭空闲的节点以最小化能量消耗,同时考虑虚拟机迁移性能,以此保证任务的服务质量．实验结果表明,代价感知的策略可以减少打开节点的个数,兼顾迁移能耗和迁移延迟,在节能的前提下使服务质量得到保证．     

Cycles in economic systems with open labor markets

A dynamic macromodel of an economic system with a monopsonic labor market and variable labor resources is considered. The initiation conditions for classical business cycles are investigated for this model. Bifurcation analysis of the model is performed to estimate the effect of the minimum wage on the way such cycles form. The results of theoretical analysis are supplemented with numerical experiments. __________ Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 4, pp. 48–72, July–August 2008.     

Towards a green cluster through dynamic remapping of virtual machines

Since power is one of the major limiting factors for a data center or for large cluster growth, the objective of this study is to minimize the power consumption of the cluster without violating the performance constraints of the applications. We propose a runtime virtual machine (VM) mapping framework in a cluster or data center to save energy. The new framework can make reconfiguration decisions on time with the consideration of a low influence on the performance. In the GreenMap framework, one probabilistic, heuristic algorithm is designed for the optimization problem: mapping VMs onto a set of physical machines (PMs) under the constraint of multi-dimensional resource consumptions. Experimental measurements show that the new method can reduce the power consumption by up to 69.2% over base, with few performance penalties. The effectiveness and performance insights are also analytically verified.     

基于XPE的嵌入式移动集群设计与实现

针对现有嵌入式移动计算平台计算能力不强、数据安全可靠性不高等问题,利用XPE操作系统精简、稳定和易扩展的优势,设计基于集群架构的解决方案。以嵌入式X86计算机作为硬件基础,定制版XPE作为系统平台,配以集群系统完成整体解决方案的构建。实验结果表明,该解决方案能够满足现有嵌入式移动平台的需求。     

物联网环境下一种基于人工能量势的服务获取方法

针对物联网环境下的服务获取问题,结合物联网节点能量有限、节点自组织、数据空间性等特点,提出了一种 基于人工能量势的物联网空间社区服务获取方法。首先给出了空间社区的概念,然后利用能量迁移方法,使物联网用 户能够通过空间节点在节点的最大有效传输范围内寻找最优节点作为下一跳节点,以减少节点的下一跳数和交互时 间,从而节省节点能耗,提高服务获取的效率。理论分析和仿真实验表明,提出的方法与Random Walk和1VIodificd- r}} s算法相比在减少节点能耗、延长网络生存周期及服务获取效率等方面有一定的改进。