One billion DM for development aid

One Billion Transistors, One Uniprocessor, One Chip

A billion transistors on a single chip presents opportunities for new levels of computing capability. Depending on your design point, several distinct implementations are possible. In our view, if the design point is performance , the implementation of choice is a very high-performance uniprocessor on each chip, with chips interconnected to form a shared memory mul-tiprocessor. The basic design...

Searching One Billion Web Images by Content: Challenges and Opportunities

Although content-based image retrieval has been studied for decades, most commercial image search engines are still text-based. However, there is a growing demand for techniques to support content-based image search at Web scale. In this paper, we propose an ambitious goal to searching one billion Web images by content, and discuss the major challenges and opportunities. We also present several...

We ran one billion agents . Scaling in simulation models

We provide a clarification of scaling issues in simulation models, distinguishing between sample size determination, discovery of emergent properties involving a qualitative change in the behaviour of the system at an aggregate level, and ‘true’ scaling, the dependence of the quantitative behaviour of the system at any given level of aggregation, to its size. Scaling issues arise because we wan...

Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters.

We present a framework for allocating a global carbon reduction target among nations, in which the concept of "common but differentiated responsibilities" refers to the emissions of individuals instead of nations. We use the income distribution of a country to estimate how its fossil fuel CO(2) emissions are distributed among its citizens, from which we build up a global CO(2) distribution. We ...

Problems with burden-sharing proposal among one billion high emitters.