In today’s world, the scientific community is moving towards distributed systems which plays an important role on achieving good performance and scalability. Task scheduling and execution over large scale, distributed systems plays an important role on achieving good performance and high system utilization[15]. Most of todays state-of-the-art job execution systems are centralized architectures,...

The phase relations and thermodynamic properties of the condensed Al-Co-Cr ternary alloy system are investigated using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) and phase-equilibria experiments that led to X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electron probe micro-analysis (EPMA) measurements. A thermodynamic description is developed by means of the calculations of phase diag...

Three different special quasirandom structures (SQS) of the substitutional hcp A1−xBx binary random solutions (x = 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75) are presented. These structures are able to mimic the most important pair and multi-site correlation functions corresponding to perfectly random hcp solutions at those compositions. Due to the relatively small size of the generated structures, they can be used ...

Results from various theoretical approaches and ideas presented at this exciting meeting are reviewed. I also point towards future directions, in particular hydrodynamic behaviour induced by jets traveling through the quark-gluon plasma, which might be worth looking at in more detail. 1. Theoretical overview We have witnessed an exciting conference with an excellent program, heated scientific d...

The isoprenoid biosynthesis pathways produce the largest class of small molecules in Nature: isoprenoids (also called terpenoids). Not surprisingly then, isoprenoid biosynthesis is a target for drug discovery, and many drugs--such as Lipitor (used to lower cholesterol), Fosamax (used to treat osteoporosis), and many anti-infectives--target isoprenoid biosynthesis. However, drug resistance in ma...

Nowadays it is widely accepted that the bioinformatics data analysis is a r eal b ottleneck i n many r esearch act ivities r elated t o l ife s ciences. H ighthroughput t echnologies l ike N ext Generation S equencing (NGS) ha ve completely r eshaped t he bi ology a nd bi oinformatics l andscape. U ndoubtedly NGS has allowed important progress in many life-sciences related fields but has also p...

When the gluino is light and long lived, missing energy is a poor signature for both squarks and gluinos. Instead, SqS ∗ q production in ee and pp̄ collisions characteristically results in events with ≥ 4 jets. Methods are proposed for deciding whether an observed excess of 4-jet events is due to SqS ∗ q production. The recent report by ALEPH of observation of 14 4-jet events when 7 were expecte...

Body-centered cubic (bcc) refractory multicomponent alloys are of great interest due to their remarkable strength at high temperatures. Optimizing the chemical compositions these achieve a combination and room-temperature ductility remains challenging. Systematic predictions correlated properties across vast compositional space would speed alloy discover process. In present work, we performed f...

Sterols are constituents of the cellular membranes that are essential for their normal structure and function. In mammalian cells, cholesterol is the main sterol found in the various membranes. However, other sterols predominate in eukaryotic microorganisms such as fungi and protozoa. It is now well established that an important metabolic pathway in fungi and in members of the Trypanosomatidae ...