Building an interactive virtual environment may involve diverse modules for performing various tasks like handling a group of interaction devices, multimodal/multi-cluster rendering displays as well multipurpose simulations. This requires a fine-grain sharing of inter-module states. Previously, this fine-grain control can only be achieved through hardware subsystems within a single computer. Wi...

A microstructure consisting of ultrafine grained (UFG) ferrite with average grain size of ~ 0.7 µm and dispersed nano-sized carbides was produced by cold-rolling and tempering of the martensite starting microstructure in a low carbon steel. Subsequently, fine grained dual phase (DP) steel consisting of equiaxed ferrite grains with average size of ~ 5 µm and martensite islands with average size ...

This paper studies cluster load balancing policies and system support for fine-grain network services. Load balancing on a cluster of machines has been studied extensively in the literature, mainly focusing on coarse-grain distributed computation. Fine-grain services introduce additional challenges because system states fluctuate rapidly for those services and system performance is highly sensi...

Context-sensitive global analysis of large code bases can be expensive, which can be specially problematic in interactive uses of analyzers. However, in practice each development iteration implies small modifications which are often isolated within a few modules, and analysis cost can be reduced by reusing the results of previous analyses. This has been achieved to date on the one hand through ...

Abstract Detrital coesite-bearing garnet is the final product of a complex geological cycle including coesite entrapment at ultra-high-pressure conditions, exhumation to Earth’s surface, erosion and sedimentary transport. In contrast usual enrichment high-grade metamorphic in medium- coarse-sand fractions, grains are often enriched very-fine-sand fraction. To understand this imbalance, we analy...

Improving the mechanical properties of Mg alloys is great significance for their wide application. A micro-alloyed Mg-1.45Bi-0.79Ca alloy (in wt.%) exhibiting a high tensile yield strength 394 ± 5 MPa and moderate elongation 6.6 0.6% was fabricated by single pass extrusion. The superior mainly attributed to synergy effects ultra-fine dynamic recrystallized grains; numerous Mg2Ca, Mg3Bi2, Mg2Bi2...