This paper discusses load-balancing issues when using heterogeneous cluster computers. There is a growing trend towards the use of commodity microprocessor clusters. Although today’s microprocessors have reached a theoretical peak performance in the range of one GFLOPS=s, heterogeneous clusters of commodity processors are amongst the most challenging parallel systems to programme efficiently. W...

This paper describes the Broadband For All Cluster, which resides within the IST (Information Society Technologies) Thematic Area of the EU’s 6 Framework Programme. By explaining the topics being addressed by the projects in the Cluster, it gives a summary of the current trends in broadband provision in the access and core networks, from the perspective of the major industrial and network opera...

The Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) is a national collective action to fight poverty, hunger, unemployment and lack of development in rural areas.This paper seeks to interrogate the programme by using literature on rural development. This is aimed at unpacking the conceptual framework as it is being implemented by the government. Our trajectory is to assess the extent to which ...

To specify what was being measured was not a simple matter, for family planning programmes generated both direct and indirect effects; and those effects were not easily differentiated, nor was there a satisfactory method of separating the effects of a family planning programme from those of socio-economic development. A direct programme effect would be births delayed or forgone by a group of wo...

It is argued that our ordinary concepts of mind are both implicitly based on architectural presuppositions and also cluster concepts. By showing that different information processing architectures support different classes of possible concepts, and that cluster concepts have inherent indeterminacy that can be reduced in different ways for different purposes we point the way to a research progra...

BACKGROUND In New Zealand, a public health programme on gambling policy development is part of a national gambling harm reduction and prevention strategy mandated by the Gambling Act 2003. Funded by the Ministry of Health, the programme directs workplace/organisational gambling policies, non-gambling fundraising policies, and local council policies on electronic gaming machines (EGMs). We carri...

BACKGROUND The growing population living with chronic conditions calls for efficient healthcare-planning and effective care. Implementing disease-management-programmes is one option for responding to this demand. Knowledge is scarce about the effect of implementation processes and their effect on patients; only few studies have reported the effectiveness of disease-management-programmes targeti...

BACKGROUND Two recent trials have shown that women's groups can reduce neonatal mortality in poor communities. We assessed the effectiveness of a scaled-up development programme with women's groups to address maternal and neonatal care in three rural districts of Bangladesh. METHODS 18 clusters (with a mean population of 27 953 [SD 5953]) in three districts were randomly assigned to either in...