Steady-State Academic Libraries: Retrenchment Solution?

Fundamental Steady state Solution for the Transversely Isotropic Half Space

Response of a transversely isotropic 3-D half-space subjected to a surface time-harmonic excitation is presented in analytical form. The derivation of the fundamental solutions expressed in terms of displacements is based on the prefect series of displacement potential functions that have been obtained in the companion paper by the authors. First the governing equations are uncoupled in the cyl...

State Coordination of Higher Education and Academic Libraries

This study consists of a historical descriptive exploration on the attention given over the past twenty years by state coordinating agencies of higher education to academic libraries in tenns of (1) funding and funding fonnulas and (2) statewide library networks and other statewide cooperative programs. A mailed survey was conducted in fifteen states, representing all regions of the United Stat...

Steady-state dendritic growth of NH4Br from solution.

GPU-Enabled Steady-State Solution of Large Markov Models

We describe a novel parallel steady-state solver that uses NVIDIA’s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) library to perform calculations on a graphics processing unit (GPU). We demonstrate speed-ups of over 8 times compared with a CPU-only solver. We also discuss a parallel implementation which runs on multiple GPUs on separate machines, and explain how we deal with allocating appropriate...

Steady State Solution of MRSPN with Mixed Preemption Policies

Markov Regenerative Stochastic Petri Nets (MRSPN) have been recently recognized as a valuable tool to model systems with non-exponential timed activities. The usual assumption in the implementation of such models is that at most a single non-exponential transition, with associated enabling memory policy, can be enabled in each marking. More recently, new memory policies have been studied in ord...