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Per-call Energy Saving Strategies in All-to-All Communications

With the increase in the peak performance of modern computing platforms, their energy consumption grows as well, which may lead to overwhelming operating costs and failure rates. Techniques, such as Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (called DVFS) and CPU Clock Modulation (called throttling) are often used to reduce the power consumption of the compute nodes. However, these techniques should...

The Engineers’ Orchestra: A Conductorless Orchestra for Our Time

Engineering students often view performance skills—leadership, teamwork, and communication—as “soft skills.” Yet they are essential for advancing a professional career. To impart these skills, engineering educators recommend courses in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHS). Since a limited number of credit hours exist for nontechnical subjects in engineering curricula, educators focus...

The Machine Orchestra

This paper describes the making of the Machine Orchestra, a unique ensemble that combines custom musical interface design, hemispherical speakers, networked performance, and musical robotics. This project is built as part of the final year curriculum in Music Technology at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where students amalgamate computer science, digital signal processing, circuit ...

Per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for all spastic esophageal disorders?

Achalasia is a rare esophageal motility disorder defined as impaired relaxation of the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) and the absence of esophageal peristaltic contractions. High resolution manometry (HRM) is now the gold standard for the diagnosis of achalasia. Pandolfino et al. proposed classifying achalasia into three subtypes based on esophageal contraction patterns on HRM [1]. In the most ...

Musician Participation in Symphony Orchestra Management : The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Experience