An Osprey Nest at Torch River

Networking in Osprey

Network links have more and more bandwidth while processor frequencies do not increase signi cantly and thus the best way to improve networking performance is to process packets in parallel on multicore machines. This paper describes a networking architecture where incoming network tra c is demultiplexed to user-level network protocol stacks running on di erent cores using a software packet lte...

Nest orientation patterns in river blennies Salaria fluviatilis

An Atmospheric Pressure Microwave Plasma Torch

Microwave plasma sources at atmospheric pressure have a variety of different applications and therefore are object of intense research. This paper covers the spectroscopic investigation of an atmospheric pressure microwave plasma torch and experiments concerning the abatement of the perfluorinated compounds CF4 and SF6. By means of optical emission spectroscopy the gas temperature of a humid ai...

Message passing and scheduling in Osprey

Future systems for multi-core architectures will have to be highly parallelizable to utilize hardware and will have to avoid sharing to achieve good performance. Consequently, novel operating system designs gradually move towards asynchronous message-based communication and decentralized scheduling. In this paper we describe a message passing and scheduling architecture which provides main comm...

Is Zika Virus an Emerging TORCH Agent? An Invited Commentary

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne arbovirus from the family Flaviviridae, which had caused some epidemics since its discovery in 1947 without any significant impacts on public health. In 2015, however, a 20-fold increase in congenital microcephaly cases in northeastern Brazil was attributed to prenatally acquired ZIKV infection. Traditionally, TORCH agents have 4 common characteristics incl...