a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-6400, United States b Department of Microand Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Nanotech, Building 345B, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark c Center for Individual Nanoparticle Functionality, CINF, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark d CAPRES A/S, Scion-DTU, DK-2...

n Part 2 of this article (August 2007), we described multipoint (or common-type) supple mental grounding and bonding between the T(M)GB [notation used here to indicate that the bar may be either the TMGB or TGB, depending on the location within the building] and the telecommunications and information technology equipment (ITE) systems. This installment will focus on the single-point (or insulat...

In the last several years, tightly coupled PC clusters have become widely applied, cost effective resources for lattice gauge computations. This paper discusses the practice of building such clusters, in particular balanced design requirements. I review and quantify the improvements over time of key performance parameters and overall price to performance ratio. Applying these trends and technol...

The home automation market is characterized by the great number of systems available to the end user. The recent bubble in the building industry made the situation even worse due to the birth of new proprietary systems. The success of the digital home concept depends on the ease of integration between home automation systems and other consumer electronic equipment pre-existing in the home. In t...

A building automation system (BAS) is the IT equipment within a building that monitors and controls the building (e.g., measuring temperature in a room to configure the heating level within the same room). We discuss the potential and the use of botnets in the context of BAS. Our botnet concept and scenario is novel in the sense that it takes advantage of the phyiscal capabilities of a building...

Recently, an increasing number of green residential buildings have been developed worldwide owing to active promotion from the authorities and increasing interest from customers. However, in the same way as traditional residential buildings, the construction of green residential buildings faces various risks. The aims of this study are to identify and assess the diverse risks in green residenti...

In the last several years, tightly coupled PC clusters have become widely applied, cost effective resources for lattice gauge computations. This paper discusses the practice of building such clusters, in particular balanced design requirements. I review and quantify the improvements over time of key performance parameters and overall price to performance ratio. Applying these trends and technol...

The advent of virtualisation and the increasing demand for outsourced, elastic compute charged on a payas-you-use basis has stimulated the development of large-scale Cloud Data Centres (DCs) housing tens of thousands of computer clusters. Of the significant capital outlay required for building and operating such infrastructures, server and network equipment account for 45 and 15% of the total c...

Condition based maintenance (CBM) seeks to generate a design for a new ship wide CMB system that performs diagnoses and failure prediction on Navy shipboard machinery. Eventually, a variety of shipboard systems will be instrumented with embedded high-performance processors to monitor equipment performance, diagnosis failures, and predict anticipated failures. To illustrate the general principle...

This novel architecture supports various future eEnabled airplane applications based on RFID technology. As RFID readers and wireless communication equipment is installed on-board of airplanes, it has to support a manifold of different wireless communication standards. The flexibility offered by Software Defined Radio (SDR) plays here an essential role. The security solution concept identifies ...