An optimization model for evaluating the economic impact of availability and maintenance notions during the synthesis and design of a power plant

In this paper, we introduce an optimization strategy in order to comprehensively quantify the impact of availability and maintenance notions during the early stages of synthesis and design of a new natural gas combined cycle power plant. A detailed state-space approach is thoroughly discussed, where influence of maintenance funds on each component's repair rate is directly assessed.In this context, analysis of the reliability characteristics of the system is centered at two designer-adopted parameters, which largely influence the obtained results: the number of components which may fail independently at the same time, and the number of simultaneous failure/repair events.Then, optimal solutions are evaluated as the availability-related parameters and the amount of resources assigned for maintenance actions are varied across a wide range of feasible values, which enable obtaining more accurate and detailed estimations of the expected economic performance for the project when compared with traditional economic evaluation approaches.     

液压系统广义可靠性设计

介绍了广义可靠性和有效度的基本概念，简要论述了对液压系统进行广义可靠性设计的重要性，并从可靠性设计和维修性设计两方面提出了提高液压系统有效度的具体措施。／     

高可用度的冗余UPS

简述通信行业标准《通信局(站)电源系统总技术要求》(YD/T1051)对UPS可用度的要求,介绍适用于电信系统的高可用度冗余UPS。     

论GPS星座组成及若干抗AS方案

本文首先讨论GPS星座组成及美国的用政策，阐述了AS措施及其对GPS测量的影响。然后，对抗AS的若干方案进行介绍，分别对平方法、互相关法、码相关干法及P－W技术（Ashtech法）进行叙述和评论，指出它们的优缺点，评述它们在GPS技术发展过程所起的作用。最后，对GPS星座建成后的形势作了小结，并对当前我国GPS事业的有关问题提出四点建议。     

The column protocol: A high availability and low message cost solution for managing replicated data

This paper presents a quorum-based replica control protocol which is resilient to network partitioning. In the best case, the protocol generates quorums of a constant size. When some replicas are inaccessible, the quorum size increases gradually and may be as large as O(n), where n is the number of replicas. However, the expected quorum size is shown to remain constant as n grows. This is a desirable property since the message cost for accessing replicated data is directly proportional to the quorum size. Moreover, the availability of the protocol is shown to be comparably high. With the two properties—constant expected quorum size and comparably high availability—the protocol is thus practical for managing replicated data.     

Lustre文件系统元数据服务恢复机制的改进

Lustre的重启恢复算法需要集群中所有客户端在指定的恢复时间窗口内与服务器重新建立连接,客户端重传未提交的事务请求,服务器严格按照事务序列号重放所有未提交的事务,要求过于严格。针对Lustre可恢复性不强的缺点,提出了基于版本的恢复和共享时提交算法,它们分别对Lustre现有的元数据更新和恢复机制进行了改进和扩展,根据事务之间的依赖关系,允许客户端在更为宽松的条件下进行恢复并加入到集群而不被驱逐,提高了Lustre文件系统的可用性和可恢复性。最后通过一系列实验对改进后的算法的性能进行了评估。     

浅谈IT服务的可用性设计方法

2011年新版ISO／IEC20000的发布,为IT服务管理的实施提供了参照标准。本文根据ISO／IEC 20000：2011版中的IT服务可用性要求,提出面向客户服务级别需求设计和实现IT服务的可用性,并指出可用性设计是实现高质量IT服务的有效途径。     

An effective heuristic for flexible job-shop scheduling problem with maintenance activities

Most production scheduling problems, including the standard flexible job-shop scheduling problem (FJSP), assume that machines are continuously available. However, in most realistic situations, machines may become unavailable during certain periods due to preventive maintenance (PM). In this paper, a flexible job-shop scheduling problem with machine availability constraints is considered. Each machine is subject to preventive maintenance during the planning period and the starting times of maintenance activities are either flexible in a time window or fixed beforehand. Moreover, two cases of maintenance resource constraint are considered: sufficient maintenance resource available or only one maintenance resource available. To deal with this variant FJSP problem with maintenance activities, a filtered beam search (FBS) based heuristic algorithm is proposed. With a modified branching scheme, the machine availability constraint and maintenance resource constraint can be easily incorporated into the proposed algorithm. Simulation experiments are conducted on some representative problems. The results demonstrate that the proposed filtered beam search based heuristic algorithm is a viable and effective approach for the FJSP with maintenance activities.     

Makespan minimization for two parallel machines scheduling with a periodic availability constraint

A two parallel machines scheduling problem where one machine is periodically unavailable with the objective of minimizing makespan is considered. It is showed that the worst-case ratio of the classical LPT algorithm and the competitive ratio of the LS algorithm are 3/2 and 2, respectively, for the offline version and the online version of the problem.     

高性能集群计算机的构建与应用

文章分别从软件和硬件两个角度出发介绍了集群系统的体系结构,着重讨论了集群系统构建中的一 些关键技术,如可扩展性、可用性、资源管理、负载平衡和并行程序设计环境等。此外,文中还给出了一个基于消息传递机制的并行程序设计实例,同时也根据集群系统的特点提出了它在不同领域中的实用意义。