Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments are a rapidly growing segment in the Mobile/Cloud Era. Compared to traditional enterprise desktop deployments, VDI can reduce the total cost of ownership by as much as 50%. However, the cost of powering a VDI deployment is still a significant IT expense. Typically these deployments consist of a complex system of interconnected server, storage and...

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With dramatic cost declines and performance improvements, both mini-hydropower and solar photovoltaics (PV) now serve as core options to meet the growing demand for electricity in underserved regions worldwide. We compare the net energy return on energy invested (EROI) of mini-hydropower and solar electricity using five existing mini-hydropower installations in northern Thailand with gridconnec...

We study the equilibration of isospin degree of freedom in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions using an isospin-dependent BUU model. It is found that there exists a transition from the isospin equilibration at low energies to nonequilibration at high energies as the beam energy varies across the Fermi energy in central, asymmetric heavy-ion collisions. At beam energies around 55 MeV/nucleo...

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