Containerized applications are becoming increasingly popular, but unfortunately, current containerdeployment methods are very slow. We develop a new container benchmark, HelloBench, to evaluate the startup times of 57 different containerized applications. We use HelloBench to analyze workloads in detail, studying the block I/O patterns exhibited during startup and compressibility of container i...

The broken bearings and great noise and vibration often occurs with the small sugarcane harvester transfer case when it starts up working. To analyze the startup status of the transfer case conveniently and quickly, the finite element transient structure analysis is carried out. with virtual prototype technology to simulate the transfer case's startup dynamic process and measure the instantaneo...

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not necessarily for other university connections. We also estimate the aggregate employment contribution from startup...

In a separator electrode assembly microbial fuel cell, oxygen crossover from the cathode inhibits current generation by exoelectrogenic bacteria, resulting in poor reactor startup and performance. To determine the best approach for improving startup performance, the effect of acclimation to a low set potential (-0.2V, versus standard hydrogen electrode) was compared to startup at a higher poten...

One of the major challenges in parallel computing over large scale clusters is fast and scalable process startup, which typically can be divided into two phases: process initiation and connection setup. In this paper, we characterize the startup of MPI programs in InfiniBand clusters and identify two startup scalability issues: serialized process initiation in the initiation phase and high comm...

This paper empirically examines commercialization of university faculty inventions through startup firms from 1994 through 2008. Using data from the Association of University Technology Managers and the 2010 NRC doctoral rankings, our research reveals several findings. We find that university entrepreneurship is more common in bad economic times and that engineering department quality and biolo...

Software startups are more popular than ever and growing in numbers. They operate under conditions of extreme uncertainty and face plenty of challenges, underlined by their high failure rate. Using Design Science Research, these challenges were investigated. A literature study showed that in recent years, several authors have suggested ways to increase the odds of succeeding as a startup, such ...

The Athena Startup Kit (ask), is an interactive front-end to the Atlas software framework (athena). Written in python, a very effective “glue” language, it is build on top of the, in principle unrelated, code repository, build, configuration, debug, binding, and analysis tools. Ask automates many error-prone tasks that are otherwise left to the end-user, thereby pre-empting a whole category of ...