Many embedded systems require hard or soft real-time execution. To ensure the requirements are met, it is necessary to measure the execution time of individual tasks, as well as establish the overall real-time performance of the system. This paper presents a variety of techniques, at both coarse-grain and fine-grain levels, to measure execution time of both user code and operating system overhe...

(i) The quality of the rice, as judged by the fineness of the grain. (ii) The process through which the rice grain has passed in its removal from the paddy. (in) The digestibility of the rice?from seasoning. (iv) Its vitamine content. With regard to quality, the best rice is transplanted rice, reaped during the winter months?the avian crop. Grain of the aus crop is coarse and not of good qualit...

This paper briefly describes the current implementation status of an intelligent information retrieval system, MARIE, that employs natural language processing techniques. Descriptive captions are used to identify photographic images concerning various military projects. The captions are parsed to produce a logical form from which nouns and verbs are extracted to form the primary keywords. User ...

We investigated the survival of bacterial pathogens in grain products. Salmonella Enteritidis and Staphylococcus aureus survived for more than 3 weeks in grain flakes. Although S. Enteritidis in grain flakes reached a level of less than 10(2) CFU/g, the surviving organisms grew rapidly in milk and reached 10(9) CFU/g after 25-hr incubation. When catechins were present on the grain flakes, the n...

We introduce Callisto-RTS, a parallel runtime system designed for multi-socket shared-memory machines. It supports very fine-grained scheduling of parallel loops— down to batches of work of around 1K cycles. Finegrained scheduling helps avoid load imbalance while reducing the need for tuning workloads to particular machines or inputs. We use per-core iteration counts to distribute work initiall...

Current solutions for providing communication security in network applications allow customization of certain security attributes and techniques, but in limited ways and without the benefit of a single unifying framework. Here, the design of a highly-customizable extensible service called SecComm is described in which attributes such as authenticity, privacy, integrity, and non-repudiation can ...

Today a large volume of energy-related data have been continuously collected. Extracting actionable knowledge from such data is a multi-step process that opens up a variety of interesting and novel research issues across two domains: energy and computer science. The computer science aim is to provide energy scientists with cutting-edge and scalable engines to effectively support them in their d...

A fine grain model programming for parallelization of sparse linear solver

Shared memory, one of the most popular models for programming parallel platforms, is becoming ubiquitous both in low-end workstations and high-end servers. With the advent of low-latency networking hardware, clusters of workstations strive to offer the same processing power as high-end servers for a fraction of the cost. In such environments, shared memory has been limited to page-based systems...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate combinations of wet corn gluten feed (WCGF) and barley, as well as the particle size of dry-rolled barley and corn, in finishing steer diets containing WCGF. In Exp. 1, 144 crossbred steers (initial BW = 298.9 +/- 1.4 kg) were used to evaluate barley (0.566 kg/L and 23.5% NDF for whole barley) and WCGF combinations in finishing diets containing 0, 17, ...