New Generation of Geospatial Clearinghouse Networks

A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England.

In 2003 there were 8,665 transplants of deceased donor kidneys for the approximately 60,000 patients waiting for such transplants in the United States. While waiting, 3,436 patients died. There were also 6,464 kidney transplants from living donors (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients web site). Live donation is an option for kidneys, since healthy people have two and can remain healthy...

The clearinghouse concept: a model for geospatial data centralization and dissemination in a disaster.

The disaster clearinghouse concept originates with the earthquake community as an effort to coordinate research and data collection activities. Though prior earthquake clearinghouses are small in comparison to what was needed in response to Hurricane Katrina, these seminal structures are germane to the establishment of our current model. On 3 September 2005, five days after Katrina wrought cata...

Next Generation Networks: A New Digital Divide?

At present there is no one definition of the term ‘International Digital Divide’. It is often defined in different ways, but nevertheless, factors that influence its definition include access to telecommunication lines, the ratio of internet hosts to GDP, and the level of development of the human capital base. The lack of a clear definition will have knock-on effects in the loan documentation o...

Distributed Shared Memory for New Generation Networks

Shared memory is widely believed to provide an easier programming model than message passing for expressing parallel algorithms Distributed Shared Memory DSM systems provide the illusion of shared memory on top of standard message passing hardware at very low implementation cost but provide ac ceptable performance on only a limited class of applications In this paper we study the main sources o...

Virtualization Technology for Building New-Generation Networks