Effective Computation of Biased Quantiles Over Data Streams
White Papers First, can a person compute quantiles with finer error guarantees for the higher ranks of the data distribution effectively, using less space and computation time than computing all quantiles uniformly at the finest error?
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Service-Oriented Grid Computation for Large-Scale Parameter Estimation in Complex Environmental Modeling
White Papers Complex environmental modeling often involves a large number of unknown physical and ecological parameters. Parameter estimation is one of the most difficult steps in many modeling activities. In this paper, the authors present a service-oriented...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
The Application of Genetic Programming to General Purpose GPU Computation
White Papers Genetic programming is a natural computing approach developed by John Koza. It differs from many earlier approaches in that it has no phenotype/genotype distinction. In the traditional GA for example individuals are represented at the genotype...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Combined Network Design and Multiperiod Pricing: Modeling, Solution Techniques, and Computation
White Papers This paper describes an efficient algorithm for solving novel optimization models arising in the context of multiperiod capacity expansion of optical networks. It is assumed that the network operator must make investment decisions over a...
[December 7, 2006, 0:00]
Mobile Resistor 1.0
Downloads Mobile Resistor 1Mobile Resistor 1.0Mobile Resistor is an efficient electronic computation tool for everyday use. Users can accomplish the following functions:Value to color mode: Simple and fast computation of the wanted color code by setting the...
[May 29, 2005, 8:00]
Wolfram Alpha search engine goes live
News The data search and computation engine Wolfram Alpha has gone live. Mathematica, which has been under development for approximately two decades, is a technical-data computation, presentation and analysis suite.
[May 18, 2009, 15:49]
cns Earthworks
Downloads 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...
[February 21, 2007, 7:00]
Leading Israeli Medical Authority Reduces Daily Helpdesk Calls to Single Figures
White Papers The Computation Authority at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine is responsible for all computing infrastructures across the campus's two faculties and five professional schools. Growing demands on the Computation Authority's...
[January 11, 2008, 0:01]
Bing integrates Wolfram Alpha results
News Microsoft has integrated results from the Wolfram Alpha computation engine into its Bing search engine. The three topic areas Bing will use Wolfram Alpha for are queries about the nutritional values of foodstuffs, body mass index calculations and...
[November 12, 2009, 13:45]
Computer Vision on Multi-Core Processors: Articulated Body Tracking
White Papers Computer vision applications, which require heavy computation and lots of bandwidth, usually cannot run in real-time. In addition, more advanced algorithms can be developed utilizing the new computation paradigm.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
'Gordon' supercomputer uses flash to go faster
News The supercomputer, to be called 'Gordon', will use flash memory to speed computation, said San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in a statement on Wednesday. Gordon will use 32 'supernodes' that will exploit virtual shared-memory software to create...
[November 6, 2009, 14:24]
Maple
Downloads Whether you need to do quick calculations, develop design sheets, teach fundamental concepts, or produce sophisticated high-fidelity simulation models, Maple's world-leading computation engine offers the breadth and depth to handle every type...
[November 20, 2009, 2:35]
Cryptanalysis on Improved Remote User Authentication Scheme Preserving User Anonymity
White Papers Due to the convenience, secure storage, and secure computation of smartcards, many smartcard-based remote authentication schemes have been proposed. Most of these schemes have the following good properties: the server has no password table; users...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Study of Network on Chip Resources Allocation for QoS Management
White Papers Predictability for computation, memory and communication components are needed to build up real-time SoC. To achieve guaranteed throughput and bounded delivery delay, buffers in Network Interfaces (NIs) must be dimensioned to hide round-trip...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Computing Aggregates for Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers First, the paper proposes a novel tree construction algorithm that enables energy-efficient computation of some classes of aggregates. Second, it shows through actual implementation and experiments that wireless communication artifacts in even...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Google could be five times faster
News Google currently ranks and searches three billion Web pages and each personalised or topic-sensitive ranking would also require a separate multi-day computation," the university said in a statement. Our preliminary experiments show that combining...
[May 27, 2003, 8:48]
Intel outlines developer toolkit strategies for parallelism
Blog Lee said that, Although threads seem to be a small step from sequential computation, in fact, they represent a huge step. They discard the most essential and appealing properties of sequential computation: understandability, predictability and...
[April 21, 2009, 11:15]
Microsoft's Mundie looks beyond Gates
News I think that that will happen, and all this kind of computation, as Bill mentioned in his speech, the big memories, I mean, all those big memories are a big part of getting to that kind of associative retrieval capability — that and a lot of...
[May 18, 2007, 17:05]
A beginner's guide to threading in C#
News This scenario fails the third criterion above -- there are no idle cycles during one computation that a second parallel computation might be able to use. Three threads, each performing a computation of pi to the millionth place, will actually take...
[May 31, 2002, 21:34]
Real-Time Human Posture Reconstruction in Wireless Smart Camera Networks
White Papers High computation capacity is required for early vision functions to enable real-time performance. While providing a variety of intriguing application opportunities, a vision sensor network poses three key challenges.
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]



