FG is a programming environment for asynchronous programs that run on clusters and fit into a pipeline framework. It enables the programmer to write a series of synchronous functions and represents them as stages of an asynchronous pipeline. FG mitigates the high latency inherent in interprocessor communication and accessing the outer levels of the memory hierarchy. It overlaps separate pipelin...

This paper proposes an innovative Pipelinebased Maximal-sized Matching scheduling approach, called PMM, for input-bu ered switches. It dramatically relaxes the limitation of a single time slot for completing a maximal matching into any number of time slots. In the PMM approach, arbitration is operated in a pipelined manner, where K subschedulers are used. Each subscheduler is allowed to take mo...

We present RenderAnts, the first system that enables interactive REYES rendering on GPUs. Taking RenderMan scenes and shaders as input, our system first compiles RenderMan shaders to GPU shaders. Then all stages of the basic REYES pipeline, including bounding/splitting, dicing, shading, sampling, compositing and filtering, are executed on GPUs using carefully designed dataparallel algorithms. A...

We present an effective scheduling heuristic for realistic production planning in a petrochemical blending plant. The considered model takes into account orders spanning a multi-product portfolio with multiple bills of materials per product, that need to be scheduled on shared production facilities including a complex pipeline network. Capacity constraints, intermediate storage restrictions, du...

Optimization and mathematical modeling has been successfully used in a variety of applications the field Energy Systems. In this Special Volume on optimization energy systems, research results different disciplines are included. The electrical storage, resource efficiency base camps, forecasting exports, wind energy, optimal management scheduling micro grids optimal, electricity expansion inves...

an experiment featuring waterhammer in viscoelastic pipes is presented in which the effects of pipe-wall viscoelasticity on waterhammer pressures are investigated. a large-scale pipeline apparatus made of polyvinyl chloride (pvc) at deltares, delft, the netherlands, has been used to carry out waterhammer experiments. tests have been conducted in a reservoir-pipeline-valve system consisting of a...

This work considers the mini-slot scheduling problem in IEEE 802.16d wireless mesh networks (WMNs). An efficient mini-slot scheduling needs to take into account the transmission overhead, the scheduling complexity, and the signaling overhead to broadcast the scheduling results. We are interested in chain and grid WMNs, which are the basic topologies of many applications. We propose scheduling s...

For CISC microprocessors, the proportion of memory access instructions is relatively high, and a specific address is likely to be accessed repeatedly in a short period of time because of register-to-memory or memory-to-memory instruction set architectures and limited register sets. As superscalar architectures advance, an aggressive scheduling policy for memory access becomes crucial. In this p...