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Accurate Energy Characterization of OS Services in Embedded Systems

December 31, 2012 12:00am PST

As technology scales for increased circuit density and performance, the management of power consumption in embedded systems is becoming critical. Because the Operating System (OS) is a basic...

Provided by: Springer Healthcare

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A Full-Duplex Diversity-Assisted Hybrid Analogue/Digitized Radio Over Fibre for Optical/Wireless Integration

December 31, 2012 12:00am PST

A duplex Radio Over Fiber (ROF) ring architecture is proposed taking into account the constraints imposed by the cost of fiber laying and of the optical/electronic components, as well as the...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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A Review of Trust Aspects in Cloud Computing Security

December 30, 2012 12:00am PST

Cloud computing offers distributed and shared computing resources and services that belong to different service providers and websites. Before truly benefiting from cloud computing, there are...

Provided by: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES)

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Concurrent Object-Oriented Development with Behavioral Design Patterns

December 21, 2012 12:00am PST

The development of concurrent applications is challenging because of the complexity of concurrent designs and the hazards of concurrent programming. Architectural modeling using the Unified...

Provided by: George Mason University

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An Interactive Graph-Based Automation Assistant: A Case Study to Manage the GIPSY's Distributed Multi-Tier Run-Time System

December 18, 2012 12:00am PST

The GIPSY system provides a framework for a distributed multi-tier demand-driven evaluation of heterogeneous programs, in which certain tiers can generate demands, while others can respond to...

Provided by: Concordia University

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Self-Managing Performance in Application Servers - Modelling and Data Architecture

December 17, 2012 12:00am PST

High performance is always a desired objective in computing systems. Managing performance through manual intervention is a well-known and obvious mechanism. The attempts to self-manage performance...

Provided by: Interscience Open Access Journals

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Design of a Configurable Transmission Device for Interface of a High Speed SOC With Low Speed Components

December 15, 2012 12:00am PST

UART is the key component of serial communications subsystem of a computer. Here UART is a configurable transmission device and high speed soc is AHB. AHB is used to connect High speed...

Provided by: International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering

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Sensor-Wise Methodology to Face NBTI Stress of NoC Buffers

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) are a key component for the new many-core architectures, from the performance and reliability standpoints. Unfortunately, continuous scaling of CMOS technology poses severe...

Provided by: European Design and Automation Association

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Dealer: Application-Aware Request Splitting for Interactive Cloud Applications

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

Deploying interactive applications in the cloud is a challenge due to the high variability in performance of cloud services. In this paper, the authors present Dealer - a system that helps...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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A SOFT Way for OpenFlow Switch Interoperability Testing

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

The increasing adoption of Software Defined Networking, and OpenFlow in particular, brings great hope for increasing extensibility and lowering costs of deploying new network functionality. A key...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Energy Consumption Anatomy of 802.11 Devices and Its Implication on Modeling and Design

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

A thorough understanding of the power consumption behavior of real world wireless devices is of paramount importance to ground energy-efficient protocols and optimizations on realistic and...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Implementing a Middleware Foundation for Cloud

December 12, 2012 12:00am PST

This free white paper shows that Oracle WebLogic Suite packages many essential middleware capabilities to help organizations implement application grid concepts. Learn about the technical...

Provided by: Oracle

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Accelerating Inference: Towards a Full Language, Compiler and Hardware Stack

December 12, 2012 12:00am PST

To a large extent, probabilistic graphical models unify a great number of models from machine learning, statistical text processing, vision, bioinformatics, and many other fields concerned with...

Provided by: Cornell University

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Cryptography Using Captcha Puzzles

December 12, 2012 12:00am PST

A Captcha is a puzzle that is easy for humans but hard to solve for computers. A formal framework, modeling Captcha puzzles (as hard AI problems), was introduced by Ahn, Blum, Hopper, and...

Provided by: University of Calgary

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Control Android's LCD backlight programmatically

December 11, 2012 5:57pm PST

In this Android tutorial, William J. Francis demonstrates how to read and write to the LCD backlight brightness control.

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WAVES: Automatic Synthesis of Client-Side Validation Code for Web Applications

December 11, 2012 12:00am PST

The current practice of web application development treats the client and server components of the application as two separate but interacting pieces of software. Each component is written...

Provided by: University of Illinois

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AS400/iSeries Server Performance Monitoring Tool

December 10, 2012 12:00am PST

ManageEngine Applications Manager enables you to manage and monitor your AS400 server's availability and performance. It helps monitor AS400/iSeries Jobs, Spools, Pools, Messages, Printer, Disk,...

Provided by: ManageEngine

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An Approach to Secure Mobile Enterprise Architectures

December 10, 2012 12:00am PST

Due to increased security awareness of enterprises for mobile applications operating with sensitive or personal data as well as extended regulations form legislative (the principle of...

Provided by: Cornell University

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HP Z820 Workstation: Tool-less case makes teardown a snap

December 7, 2012 12:37pm PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the HP Z820 using nothing but his hands and shows you what's inside this desktop powerhouse.

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Cracking Open the HP Z820 Workstation

December 7, 2012 12:35pm PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the HP Z820 Workstation, which packs two Intel Xeon CPUs and up to 512GB of RAM and 14TB of storage in a near tool-less case.

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