With ever more complex functionalities being implemented in emerging real-time applications, multi-core systems are demanded for high performance, with directed acyclic graphs (DAG) used to model functional dependencies. For a single DAG task, our previous work presented concurrent provider and consumer (CPC) that captures the node-level dependency parallelism, which two key factors of DAG. Bas...

A runtime parallel incremental DAG scheduling approach is described in this paper. A DAG is expanded incrementally, scheduled, and executed on a parallel machine. A DAG scheduling algorithm is parallelized to scale to large systems. In this approach, a large DAG can be executed without consuming large amount of memory space. Inaccurate estimation of task execution time and communication time ca...

Manduca sexta hemolymph lipid transfer particle (LTP) is a very high density lipoprotein (d = 1.23 g/ ml) containing 14% lipid and 5% carbohydrate. Each of three apoprotein components, apoLTP-I (Mr 320,000), apoLTP-I1 (Mr = 85,000), and apoLTP-I11 (M. = 55,000), is glycosylated. Carbohydrate analysis revealed the presence of mannose and N-acetylglucosamine in a ratio of 4.5:1. A native M, > 67...

We previously suggested that insulin increases diacylglycerol (DAG) in BC3H-1 myocytes, both by increases in synthesis de novo of phosphatidic acid (PA) and by hydrolysis of non-inositol-containing phospholipids, such as phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). We have now evaluated these insulin effects more thoroughly, and several potential mechanisms for their induction. I...