This white paper describes the benefits and performance of the latest Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810 running Microsoft® SQL Server® in VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 Update 1 (U1) and EqualLogic™ PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays. The Dell PowerEdge R810 offers an ideal platform to consolidate demanding virtual database workloads in space conscious datacenters. The R810 also offers energy efficiency features in a den...

In this study we evaluate the capacity of Virtual Hybridization to identify between highly related bacterial strains. Eight genomic fingerprints were obtained by virtual hybridization for the Bacillus anthracis genome set, and a set of 15,264 13-nucleotide short probes designed to produce genomic fingerprints unique for each organism. The data obtained from each genomic fingerprint were used to...

Selecting and utilizing proper virtual machines in a virtualized cloud platform to achieve high availability, throughput, reliability, as well as low cost and makespan is very important. The importance lies in the adaptive resource provisioning to satisfy variant of workloads. An Adaptive Accessing Aware Algorithm (A5) is proposed in this paper to deal with this conflicting objective optimizati...

This paper proposes an algorithm for aggregating virtual channel connections (VCCs) onto virtual path connections (VPCs) in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks. We focus on the interesting problem of multiplexing onto an available bit rate (ABR) VPC. ABR VPCs are particularly useful for connecting enterprise sites over the Internet, providing a virtual private network (VPN). The VPC/VCC h...

in this paper, by investigating the common weights concept and dea models with nonlinear virtual inputs/outputs, we introduce a model for evaluating the decision making units with nonlinear virtual inputs and outputs based on the common weights.

In the wake of current global pandemic, international travel is restricted. This poses substantial challenges for research relationships aiming to build capacity and foster co-creation achieve Sustainable Development Goals, where collaboration communication paramount. especially challenging when it comes interactive dialogues that go beyond typical one-way structure online learning. Considerati...

In November 2019, scholars and practitioners from ten higher education institutions celebrated the launch of iKudu project. This project, co-funded by Erasmus+[1], focuses on capacity development for curriculum transformation through internationalisation Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) virtual exchange. Detailed plans 2020 were discussed including a series site visits face-to...