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A Multi-Application Controller for SAGE-enabled Tiled Display Wall in Wide-area Distributed Computing Environments

  • Fujiwara, Yuki;Date, Susumu;Ichikawa, Kohei;Takemura, Haruo
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.581-594
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    • 2011
  • Due to the recent advancement of networking and high-performance computing technologies, scientists can easily access large-scale data captured by scientific measurement devices through a network, and use huge computational power harnessed on the Internet for their analyses of scientific data. However, visualization technology, which plays a role of great importance for scientists to intuitively understand the analysis results of such scientific data, is not fully utilized so that it can seamlessly benefit from recent high-performance and networking technologies. One of such visualization technologies is SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment), which allows people to build an arbitrarily sized tiled display wall and is expected to be applied to scientific research. In this paper, we present a multi-application controller for SAGE, which we have developed, in the hope that it will help scientists efficiently perform scientific research requiring high-performance computing and visualization. The evaluation in this paper indicates that the efficiency of completing a comparison task among multiple data is increased by our system.

Systematic Literature Review on Cloud Adoption

  • Bagiwa, Idris Lawal;Ghani, Imran;Younas, Muhammad;Bello, Mannir
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2016
  • While many organizations believe that cloud computing has the potential to reduce operational cost by abstracting capital assets like data storage center and processing systems into a readily on demand available and affordable operating expenses, still many of these organizations are not aware of the factors determining the performance of cloud computing technology. This paper provides a systematic literature review focusing on the factors determining the performance of cloud computing. In trying to come up with this review, the following sources were searched for relevant articles: ScienceDirect, Scientific.Net, ACMDigital Library, IEEE Xplore, Springer, World Scientific Journal, Wiley Online Library, Academic Search Premier (via EBSCOHost) and EdITLib (Education & Information Technology Digital Library). In first search strategy, approximately 100 keywords related to the research domain like; "Cloud Computing" and "Cloud Services" were used. In second search strategy, 65 keywords more related to the research domain were selected. In the third search strategy, the primary materials were identified and classified according to the paper types (Journal or Conference), year of publication and so on. Based on this study, twenty (20) factors were found that determine the performance of cloud computing. The IT organization needs to consider these twenty (20) factors in order to adopt cloud computing.

Educational hardware and simulator development of Multifunction Array Radar

  • Lee, Jong-Hyun;Kim, Tae-Jun;Chun, Joo-Hwan;Park, Jin-Kyu;Kim, Yong-Hwan
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1797-1801
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    • 2004
  • In this paper we show the hardware testbed and software simulator of multi function array radar (MFAR). The hardware MFAR is simple and flexible hardware to implement various radar beamforming and detecting algorithms. To overcome the limitation of hardware MFAR, the software simulator is proposed. User can simulate radar under the various environment conditions adjusting the parameter of simulator. User can set environment of radar, such as the location and velocity of target, jammer and the terrain clutter. The radar use various probing pulses and supports two operation mode, surveillance and tracking mode.

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Stochastic upscaling via linear Bayesian updating

  • Sarfaraz, Sadiq M.;Rosic, Bojana V.;Matthies, Hermann G.;Ibrahimbegovic, Adnan
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.211-232
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    • 2018
  • In this work we present an upscaling technique for multi-scale computations based on a stochastic model calibration technique. We consider a coarse-scale continuum material model described in the framework of generalized standard materials. The model parameters are considered uncertain, and are determined in a Bayesian framework for the given fine scale data in a form of stored energy and dissipation potential. The proposed stochastic upscaling approach is independent w.r.t. the choice of models on coarse and fine scales. Simple numerical examples are shown to demonstrate the ability of the proposed approach to calibrate coarse scale elastic and inelastic material parameters.

The predictability of science experience, school support and learning flow on the attitude of scientific inquiry in physical computing education (피지컬 컴퓨팅 교육에서 과학적 탐구 태도에 대한 과학경험, 교육지원, 학습몰입의 예측력 규명)

  • Kang, Myunghee;Jang, JeeEun;Yoon, Seonghye
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.41-55
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    • 2017
  • The physical computing education, as the emerging field, is a form of education that helps learners to develop the attitude of scientific inquiry by developing meaningful and creative output through the integration of hardware and software elements. Based on the literature, the authors of the study used science experience, school support and learning flow as the variables that predict the outcome variable which is the attitude of scientific inquiry. The authors collected data from 64 fourth and sixth graders who studied physical computing at an institution for the gifted and talented in Korea and then analyzed them using descriptive statistics, correlation, multiple regression and simple mediation analysis methods. As a result, science experience and learning flow significantly predicted the attitude of scientific inquiry. In addition, learning flow mediated the relationship between science experience and the attitude of scientific inquiry, and the relationship between school support and the attitude of scientific inquiry. Based on these results, the authors propose that to promote the attitude of scientific inquiry in physical computing education, strategies must be implemented for improving science experience, school support and learning flow in instructional design.

Two-year Follow-Up Study on Effects of STEAM Education Program Based on Physical Computing (2년간의 추적 연구를 통한 Physical Computing 기반의 STEAM 프로그램의 효과)

  • Kim, Sug Hee;Yu, Heon Chang
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2014
  • By PISA 2007, TIMSS 2011, Korean high school students had high academic achievement to science and mathematics, while they had low attitude. Prospective college students are increasingly avoiding natural science and engineering. Moreover, the opportunities to learn to computer science in middle and high school are disappeared rapidly. The necessity of STEAM program based on Physical computing arise under these situation. Therefore, we developed STEAM program and studied the effects of the program in 2012. The result showed that students' scientific interests and attitude, scientific problem solving ability, scientific creative problem solving ability, personality test for children, and satisfaction of school life were enhanced. This study is follow-up study for the same students who improved every domain of the measurements. They were administerd pre-test at start of 2012, post-test at end of 2012, and delayed post-test at the end of 2013, on same test. The result of the study showed that only attitude to Scientific Inquiry was enhanced, but there was no significant result on the other domain of the test in comparison with start of 2012. But this result demonstrate the effect of STEAM education conversely.

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Development of a Grid-based Framework for High-Performance Scientific Knowledge Discovery (그리드 기반의 고성능 과학기술지식처리 프레임워크 개발)

  • Jeong, Chang-Hoo;Choi, Sung-Pil;Yoon, Hwa-Mook;Choi, Yun-Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.12
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    • pp.877-885
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we propose the SINDI-Grid which is a high-performance framework for scientific and technological knowledge discovery using the grid computing. By using the advantages of the grid computing providing data repository of large-volume and high-speed computing power, the SINDI-Grid framework provides a variety of grid services for distributed data analysis and scientific knowledge processing. And the SINDI-Workflow tool exploits these services so that performs the design and execution for scientific and technological knowledge discovery applications which integrate various information processing algorithms.

A Document-Driven Method for Certifying Scientific Computing Software for Use in Nuclear Safety Analysis

  • Smith, W. Spencer;Koothoor, Nirmitha
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.404-418
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents a documentation and development method to facilitate the certification of scientific computing software used in the safety analysis of nuclear facilities. To study the problems faced during quality assurance and certification activities, a case study was performed on legacy software used for thermal analysis of a fuelpin in a nuclear reactor. Although no errors were uncovered in the code, 27 issues of incompleteness and inconsistency were found with the documentation. This work proposes that software documentation follow a rational process, which includes a software requirements specification following a template that is reusable, maintainable, and understandable. To develop the design and implementation, this paper suggests literate programming as an alternative to traditional structured programming. Literate programming allows for documenting of numerical algorithms and code together in what is termed the literate programmer's manual. This manual is developed with explicit traceability to the software requirements specification. The traceability between the theory, numerical algorithms, and implementation facilitates achieving completeness and consistency, as well as simplifies the process of verification and the associated certification.

HTCaaS(High Throughput Computing as a Service) in Supercomputing Environment (슈퍼컴퓨팅환경에서의 대규모 계산 작업 처리 기술 연구)

  • Kim, Seok-Kyoo;Kim, Jik-Soo;Kim, Sangwan;Rho, Seungwoo;Kim, Seoyoung;Hwang, Soonwook
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.8-17
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    • 2014
  • Petascale systems(so called supercomputers) have been mainly used for supporting communication-intensive and tightly-coupled parallel computations based on message passing interfaces such as MPI(HPC: High-Performance Computing). On the other hand, computing paradigms such as High-Throughput Computing(HTC) mainly target compute-intensive (relatively low I/O requirements) applications consisting of many loosely-coupled tasks(there is no communication needed between them). In Korea, recently emerging applications from various scientific fields such as pharmaceutical domain, high-energy physics, and nuclear physics require a very large amount of computing power that cannot be supported by a single type of computing resources. In this paper, we present our HTCaaS(High-Throughput Computing as a Service) which can leverage national distributed computing resources in Korea to support these challenging HTC applications and describe the details of our system architecture, job execution scenario and case studies of various scientific applications.