More and more high available applications are implemented on Windows NT. However, the current version of Windows NT (NT4) does not provide some facilities that are needed to implement these fault tolerant applications. In this paper, we describe a set of components collectively named NT-SwiFT (Software Implemented Fault Tolerance) which facilitates building fault-tolerant and highly available a...

SWIFT++ is a collision detection package capable of detecting intersection, performing tolerance verification, computing approximate and exact distance, and determining the contacts between pairs of objects in a scene composed of general rigid polyhedral models. It is a robust and efficient library shown to be substantially faster than currently available packages. It is a powerful package from...

Using the Swift data of GRB 050315, we progress in proving the uniqueness of our theoretically predicted Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) structure as composed by a proper-GRB, emitted at the transparency of an electron-positron plasma with suitable baryon loading, and an afterglow comprising the “prompt radiation” as due to external shocks. Detailed light curves for selected energy bands are theoreticall...

The Silicon Wafer Integrated Femtosatellites (SWIFT) Swarm Project presents a new paradigm-shifting definition of spacecraft technology that can enable flight of swarms of fully capable femtosats. One of the most important applications of SWIFT is a distributed aperture array. New swarm Golay array configurations are introduced and shown to dramatically increase the effective diameter derived f...

A 32×32 64b self-arbitrating switch fabric called SWIFT achieves a bandwidth of 2.1Tb/s with single cycle arbitration and data transfer la-tency in 65nm technology while operating at 1026MHz at 1.2V. SWIFT co-optimizes arbiter and crossbar logic using a unique fabric architecture that integrates conflict resolution with data routing to optimally use logic and interconnect resources. It spans 0....

Nonlinear Analysis B: in press, 2004. The Swift-Hohenberg fluid convection system with both local and nonlocal nonlinearities under the influence of white noise is studied. The objective is to understand the difference in the dynamical behavior in both local and nonlocal cases. It is proved that when sufficiently many of its Fourier modes are forced, the system has a unique invariant measure, o...

The Oxford SWIFT spectrograph, an I & z band (6500–10500 Å) integral field spectrograph, is designed to operate as a facility instrument at the 200 inch Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain, in conjunction with the Palomar laser guide star adaptive optics system PALAO (and its upgrade to PALM3000). SWIFT provides spectra at R( / )~4000 of a contiguous two-dimensional field, 44 89 spatial pixels (...

Little is known of the life-history of many parasitic species. This hinders a full understanding of host-parasitic interactions. The common swift louse fly, Crataerina pallida Latreille (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), an obligate haematophagous parasite of the Common Swift, Apus apus Linnaeus 1758, is one such species. No detrimental effect of its parasitism upon the host has been found. This may be ...

On 5 July 2001, SWIFT and FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) announced that the two organisations will seek convergence of their respective messaging protocols by centering on the development and adoption of ISO 15022 XML as a common industry standard. SWIFT and FPL will actively support the efforts of ISO Working Group 10, the group focused on the migration to XML of ISO 15022, which is the current st...