Traditionally, increases in transistors and fabrication technology have led to increased performance. However, these techniques are showing diminishing returns due to limitations arising from power consumption, design complexity, and wire delays. In response, designers have turned to chip multiprocessors (CMPs) that incorporate multiple cores on a single die. The performance, cost, and flexibil...

As it is not realistic to expect that all users, especially specialists in the graphic business, use complex low-level parallel programs to speed up image processing, we have developed a plugin for the highly acclaimed GIMP which enables to invoke a series of filter operations in a pipeline in parallel on a set of images loaded by the plugin. We present the software developments, test scenarios...

Dies ist ein Kapitel. In diesem Vorhaben wurde auf Architekturebene ein Verfahren entwickelt, das es erlaubt aus der Analyse einer bit-seriellen asynchronen Architektur charakteristische Merkmale zur Leistungseinsparung zu extrahieren. Diese Merkmale wurden dann unter Anwendung bestimmter Techniken auf synchrone bit-serielle Architekturen übertragen. Die entwickelten Analysemethoden fließen dir...

in this paper, the behaviour of buried pipelines under the effect of propagation of seismic waves and faulting is studied seperately. the stability of this type of structure was first studied by using three different methods proposed by newmark-hall, kenndey et al. and wang - yeh under the effect of ground faulting. by parametric study, the effect of soil types, size of pipeline, depth of embed...

The paper describes visual routines based on models of color and shape, as well as crucial issues involving the scheduling of such routines. The visual routines are developed in a unique platform. The view from a car driving in a simulated world is fed into a Dat-acube pipeline video processor. The use of this simulation provides a exible environment from which to set crucial image processing p...

Patel’s research contributions include Pipeline Scheduling, Cache Coherence, Cache Simulation, Interconnection Networks, On-line Error Detection, Reliability analysis of memories with ECC and scrubbing, Design for Testability, Built-In Self-Test, Fault Simulation and Automatic Test Generation. Patel has supervised over 85 M.S. and Ph.D. theses and published over 200 technical papers and listed ...

The present status of visualization on the grid is not really satisfying. In contrast to other grid services, such as batch processing, data transfer, and resource scheduling, visualization is still utilized in the traditional point-topoint fashion, with applications integrating visualization as subroutine calls or even post-mortem. This situation is addressed by the Grid Visualization Kernel G...

Offshore pipelines used for oil and gas transportation are often buried to avoid damage from fishing activities and to provide thermal insulation. Thermal expansion and contraction of the pipeline during operation can lead to lateral or upheaval buckling. A safe buried pipeline design must take into account a reliable evaluation of soil uplift resistance and pipe embedment depth. While the cost...

This paper presents the ProMARTES toolkit for profiling, modeling and performance analysis of component-based real-time distributed systems (CB-RTDS). The ProMARTES toolkit features multiple benefits: (a) cycle-accurate profiling of individual components and automated generation of MARTEcompatible SW component performance models, (b) guided composition of a system architecture from available SW...