In a multicluster architecture, where jobs can be submitted through each constituent cluster, the job arrival rates in individual clusters may be uneven and the load therefore needs to be balanced among clusters. In this paper we investigate load balancing for two types of jobs, namely non-QoS and QoSdemanding jobs and as a result, two performance-specific load balancing strategies (called ORT ...

clusters are geographically close groups of related companies or institutions related to a certain area which are inherently more efficient than the other companies due to advantages such as being located in one place, networks, external knowledge, variability of human capital, etc. today, development through clusters plays a pivotal role in the economic and industrial policies of developed cou...

BACKGROUND Food choice in Greece follows a westernized model. We tried to identify the characteristics of clusters regarding food choice and behaviour in a large sample of Greek primary school students, in order to acknowledge some mediating parameters that need to be addressed when planning interventions to promote healthy nutrition. METHODS Cross-sectional study in 2439 fifth and sixth grad...

Silicon clusters were produced by gas aggregation in vacuum and co-deposited with water vapour onto a cold target where the water vapour froze. Melting of the ice yielded fluorescent silicon nanoparticles suspended in water which were investigated by photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The PL spectrum showed a prominent band at 420 nm and other, less intense b...

Two of the factors, shear erosion and diffusive mass transfer, which limit the growth of heterogeneous biofilms are considered. For permeable beds of particulates, with a regulated throughflow, equating shear induced erosion and biofilm growth, leads to estimates of biofilm thickness and activity which conform with experimental measurements. In the more open environments of pipes and channels, ...

The public data on skin sensitization from REACH registrations already included 19,111 studies on skin sensitization in December 2014, making it the largest repository of such data so far (1,470 substances with mouse LLNA, 2,787 with GPMT, 762 with both in vivo and in vitro and 139 with only in vitro data). 21% were classified as sensitizers. The extracted skin sensitization data was analyzed t...

Wireless sensor nodes are highly energy constrained devices. They have limited battery life due to various constraints of sensor nodes such as size and cost, etc. Moreover, most of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications render it impossible to charge or replace the battery of sensor nodes. Therefore, optimal use of node energy is a major challenge in wireless sensor networks. Clustering...

dft and qtaim computations have been performed on numbers of pure nitrogen cluster speciesi.e. nn (n = 4, 6) for investigating the structure and bonding. this study is critical since thesemolecules have been nominated as the good synthetic targets of high energy materials (hem).0nthe other hand the decomposition mechanism is closely depends on the bonding pattern. thislatter concept was searche...

Balancing selection occurs when multiple alleles are maintained in a population, which can result in their preservation over long evolutionary time periods. A characteristic signature of this long-term balancing selection is an excess number of intermediate frequency polymorphisms near the balanced variant. However, the expected distribution of allele frequencies at these loci has not been exte...

Slimmed fat-trees have recently been proposed and deployed to reduce costs in High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters. While existing static routing schemes such as destination-mod-k (D-modk) routing are load-balanced and effective for full bisection bandwidth fat-trees, they incur significant load imbalance in many slimmed fat-trees. In this work, we propose a static load balanced routing sc...