OmegaDesk is a device that allows for seamless interaction between 2D and 3D content. In order to develop this hybrid device, a new form of Operating System is needed to manage and display heterogeneous content. In this paper we address the hardware and software requirements for such a system, as well as challenges. A set of heterogeneous applications has been successfully developed on OmegaDes...

Summary The "Messages" program, the high-end interface to the Andrew Message System (AMS), is a multimedia mail and bulletin board reading program that novices generally learn to use in less than an hour. Despite the initial simplicity, however, Messages is extremely powerful and manages to satisfy the needs of both experts and novices through a carefully evolved system of novice-oriented defau...

This paper discusses the material to be presented by H. J. Siegel in his keynote talk. Distributed high-performance heterogeneous computing (HC) environments are composed of machines with varied computational capabilities interconnected by high-speed links. These environments are well suited to meet the computational demands of large, diverse groups of applications. One key factor in achieving ...

B 2001, the kinds and amounts of pesticides used in public schools were mysteries to many Californians. For some parents, these mysteries were worrisome. California lawmakers aimed to address these concerns by passing the Healthy Schools Act of 2000 (HSA), which established right-to-know requirements for pesticide use (see sidebar, page 236) in public schools and required all school districts t...

9 Application Modernization at LLNL and the Sierra Center of Excellence J. Robert Neely and Bronis R. de Supinski In 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory began acquisition of Sierra, a preexascale system from IBM and Nvidia. Its use marks a significant shift in direction, introducing the concept of heterogeneous computing via GPUs. An overview of LLNL’s overall application strategy focu...

The maritime domain has the goal to harmonize heterogeneous systems and integrate new approaches into existing structures. In this paper we discuss the need for architectural methodology to overcome the challenge to coordinate the development of new systems considering technology issues, governance aspects and users between existing architectures in the maritime domain. We introduce already app...

Data exchange between heterogeneous schemas is a difficult problem that becomes more acute if the source and target schemas are from different data models. The data type of the objects to be exchanged can be useful information that should be exploited to help the data exchange process. So far little has been done to take advantage of this in inter model data exchange. Using a common data model ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between reduced vancomycin and daptomycin susceptibility among Australasian vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) and heterogeneous-VISA (hVISA) isolates from patients never exposed to daptomycin. METHODS Forty-seven stored clinical isolates of hVISA/VISA collected before November 2008 from around Australia and ...