Cluster vs. Monolithic Parallel Machines: You May Need Both

Parametric or Direct Modeling: why you may need both

A "KISS" EMR may be all you need.

The Obama Administration has continued where the previous one left off in advocating the widespread adoption of electronic (digital) medical records (EMRs). But an expensive EMR system loaded with bells and whistles that you don't really need, and requiring doctors to interact with computers, can cost you in terms of patient-care time as well as money. The Big Three (which can encompass dictati...

Why you may need parametric and direct 3D CAD

What Do Programmers of Parallel Machines Need? A Survey

We performed semistructured, open-ended interviews with 11 professional developers of parallel, scientific applications to determine how their programming time is spent and where tools could improve productivity. The subjects were selected from a variety of research laboratories, both industrial and governmental. The major findings were that programmers would prefer a global over a per-processo...

Identical Parallel Machines Vs . Unit - Time Shops , Preemptions Vs . Chains , and Other Offsets in Scheduling

This paper studies the complexity variations of scheduling problems in diierent machine environments when replacing operations with arbitrary processing times by the chains of operations with unit processing times. Special attention is paid to polynomial-time algorithms for chain-like precedence-constrained problems with unit processing times and transformations of their solutions to each other...