Can Induction Plasma Technology be Nano-safe, "Green" and Energy Efficient?

Can C be safe?

Is it possible to achieve a safer software in C by limiting its use? As the C programming language still is very much alive, especially within the embedded and real-time community much effort has been put into the development of such standards. There are many well known problems in the ANSI/ISO C language specification with or without measurements of fault statistics. And there also exists seve...

Can Green Be Lean

Thread-Level Speculation on a CMP Can Be Energy Efficient

While Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) with Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) have become the subject of intense research, processor designers in industry have reservations about their practical implementation. An often cited complaint is that TLS is too energy-inefficient to compete against conventional superscalars. This paper challenges the commonly-held view that TLS is energy inefficient. We identi...

Type-Safe Heterogeneous Sharing can be Fast

Safe sharing is a desirable feature of an object oriented database because it protects valuable database objects from program errors in application code. It is especially desirable in a heterogeneous environment in which applications are written in various programming languages, many of which have unsafe features. However, safe sharing is not without its potential performance costs. This paper ...

Why simulation can be efficient: on the preconditions of efficient learning in complex technology based practices

BACKGROUND It is important to demonstrate learning outcomes of simulation in technology based practices, such as in advanced health care. Although many studies show skills improvement and self-reported change to practice, there are few studies demonstrating patient outcome and societal efficiency. The objective of the study is to investigate if and why simulation can be effective and efficient ...