When processing and storage are obtained as internet services, the actual location of the providing facility is undetermined. Factors like a robust and cheap power supply, cooling-relevant climate conditions as well as legal and risk-related considerations are important for selecting a facility’s site. As storage and processing facilities feature different economies of scale and location, their...

The potential of high-performance systems, especially vector and parallel machines, is generally limited by the bandwidth between processors and memory. To achieve the performance of which these machines should be capable, greater emphasis must be placed on optimizing array accesses. We propose a practical, integrated hardware/software strategy for increasing the eeectiveness of local storage m...

Every time we access a file on the Cloud, a chain of routing servers is activated to transfer the payload from the storage facility to the user’s device, and back. The data center, being densely packed and highly-performant, is hardly optimized in terms of energy consumption and environmental impact. The ICT (information communication technologies) ecosystem is estimated to be responsible for t...

Major research fields at the proposed accelerator facility at GSI are Antiproton (pbar) physics, nuclear physics with rare isotope (RI) beams and atomic physics. Various storage rings (SR) will give access to novel experiments. In the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) [1] a 13 Tm-SR complex consisting of a Collector Ring CR, a New Experimental Storage Ring NESR, and a 50 Tm-High Energy Storage Rin...

The Nanyang Technological University School of Biological Sciences Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory is set up as a core facility for research work involving biological materials of potential biohazard. Many human pathogens— viruses, fungi, parasites, rickettsia, and bacteria are classified as Risk Group 3 microorganisms in the Singapore national guidelines that require a BSL-3 facility for ...

To increase resource efficiency, mining residues–especially tailings–have come into the focus of research, companies, and politics. Tailings still contain varying amounts unextracted elements value minerals that were not economic interest during production. As for primary mineral deposits, only a small share tailings offers possibility an reprocessing. minimize exploration expenditure, stepwise...

In the past decade wind-based electricity generation has grown rapidly, and is likely to grow even more in the future. Since generation sites—wind farms—tend to be remote, they require transmission lines to transport electricity to markets. These wind farms can be augmented by co-locating them with an electricity storage facility, for example, an industrial battery. This storage facility enable...

A calculus problem arising in the operation of a storage tank for a chemical processing plant is described. Constructing an appropriate gauge for the storage tank requires computing the volume of water residing inside a tilted cylindrical pipe. The following calculus problem arose in the engineering design of a storage tank facility, and is possibly more interesting and challenging for students...