Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is the most popular model to facilitate the building of distributed programs. However, it only provides a restricted availability of update operations and does not support fault-tolerant. The combination of RPC and data replication techniques has been developed to support fault-tolerant from Remote Procedure Call (RPC). However, different data replication techniques ...

In this paper, we report on the performance of the remote procedure call code for the Firefly multiprocessor and analyze the code to account precisely for all measured latency. From the analysis and measurements, we estimate how much faster RPC could be if certain improvements were made. 1 Authors’ address: Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center, 130 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, Ca...

Non-freon gas mixtures (Ar/iso-C4H10) were tested as the chamber gas for 1 and 2 mm gas gap Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) with float glass as the resistive electrodes, operated in the streamer mode. With the narrower (1 mm) gas gap, streamer charge is reduced (B1=3), which reduces the dead time (and dead area), associated with each streamer, improving the detection efficiency. The best perfor...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) results from oxidative damage to the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) with concomitant photoreceptor cell death. The effects of oxidative stress were investigated on a human RPE cell line (ARPE-19) in the presence of 48h-conditioned media from human retinal progenitor cells (RPC). Freshly isolated RPCs rapidly formed spherical clusters (neurospheres) and e...

The use of phenolic or melaminic bakelite as RPC electrodes is widespread. The electrode resistivity is an important parameter for the RPC performance. As recent studies pointed out, the bakelite resistivity changes with temperature and is in#uenced by humidity. In order to gain a quantitative understanding on the in#uence of temperature and humidity on RPC electrodes, we assembled an apparatus...

The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) paradigm i s reviewed. The concept is described, along with the backbone structure of the mechanisms tha t support it . An overview of works in supporting these mechanisms is discussed . Extensions to the paradigm that have been proposed t o enlarge its suitability, are studied . The main contributions of this paper are a standard vie w and classification of RPC ...

We study mix-nets with randomized partial checking (RPC) as proposed by Jakobsson, Juels, and Rivest (2002). RPC is a technique to verify the correctness of an execution both for Chaumian and homomorphic mix-nets. The idea is to relax the correctness and privacy requirements to achieve a more efficient mix-net. We identify serious issues in the original description of mix-nets with RPC and show...

An improved implementation of the reverse phase contrast (RPC) method for rapid optical transformation of amplitude patterns into spatially similar phase patterns using a high-speed digital micromirror-array device (DMD) is presented. Aside from its fast response, the DMD also provides an electronically adjustable and inherently aligned input iris that simplifies the optimization of the RPC sys...

The rational polynomial coefficient (RPC) model has recently raised considerable interest in the photogrammetry and remote sensing community. This model is a generalized sensor model that is capable of achieving high approximation accuracy. Unfortunately, in all previous literature, the computation of the parameters of the RPC model depends on initial values for the parameters. In this paper, a...

We have operated successfully glass Resistive Plate Counters (RPC) at the BELLE experiment by using a nonflammable gas mixture of 30% argon, 8% butane-silver and 62% freon, HFC-134a. This freon is nonozone depleting freon, but a freon has a high global warming potential in general. Thus a gas mixture for RPC might be desired to be freonless in the near future. We have tested the performance of ...