With the rise of clusters as a vehicle for very-highperformance computing, an increasing emphasis is being placed upon the communication interface between each processor and the underlying network. And while many studies have explored the design of both traditional send/receive network interfaces and shared-memory designs, a third alternative — reflective memory — offers a significantly differe...

We study a geometric property related to spherical hyperplane tessellations in R d . first consider fixed x on the Euclidean sphere and with M ≫ hyperplanes passing through origin having normal vectors distributed according Gaussian distribution. show that high probability there exists subset of whose cardinality is order log ⁡ ( ) such radius cell containing induced by these bounded above by, ...

We propose a general formalism of iterated random functions with semigroup property, under which exact and approximate Bayesian posterior updates can be viewed as specific instances. A convergence theory for iterated random functions is presented. As an application of the general theory we analyze convergence behaviors of exact and approximate message-passing algorithms that arise in a sequenti...

Fig. 1. Computed tomography clearly demonstrated lung hernia of the right lower lobe through a chest wall defect at the site of a previous thoracoscopic surgery. At the previous thoracoscopic surgery, intercostal incision was closed with two interrupted sutures passing over the rib above the incision and through the rib below the incision, and three horizontal mattress interrupted sutures trave...