Koel Bhattacharya, Suman Kanungo, Dipika Sur, Banwari Lal Sarkar, Byomkesh Manna, Anna Lena Lopez,1 Manjira Bhattacharya, Suman Nandy, and Swapan Kumar Niyogi Author affi liations: National institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India (K. Bhattacharya, S. Kanungo, D. Sur, B.L. Sarkar, B. Manna, M. Bhattacharya, S. Nandy, S.K. Niyogi); and International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Sou...

Fixed-energy sandpiles with stochastic update rules are known to exhibit a nonequilibrium phase transition from an active phase into infinitely many absorbing states. Examples include the conserved Manna model, the conserved lattice gas, and the conserved threshold transfer process. It is believed that the transitions in these models belong to an autonomous universality class of nonequilibrium ...

Zohar, whose name in Hebrew means “illumination,” was born in early 1939 c.e. and grew up in Haifa, Israel. This volume is offered in tribute to Zohar – and in celebration of his 64th birthday. Two academic symposia were held to mark this event: a one-day symposium, held in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 16, 2003, and a week-long symposium, held in Taormina, Sicily, from June 29 to July 4, which gave ...

The paper presents the experiences made with the design and implementation of the PEACE message-passing kernel. PEACE is the object-oriented parallel operating system developed for the MANNA parallel computer. MANNA is a dual-processor-node distributed-memory machine using crossbar technology for node interconnection. Performance figures of the PEACE kernel configurations are presented and thei...