Extreme-Scale Computing–Where 'Just More of the Same' Does Not Work

Change is just more of the same

" Modern skulls still have a stone age mind " [1] " This Quality Assurance programme is a total waste of time. " " Why change the roster if it was working just fine before? " " If it isn't broken, why do you want to fix it? " " The bosses never tell us what's going on, but they expect us to follow them! " " Why can't they make up their minds about how they want to improve the standards in our a...

Improving NHS productivity More with the same not more of the same

Just more of the same, or different? An integrative theoretical framework for the study of cumulative interruptions at work

We propose a theoretical framework that explores the accumulation of work interruptions and their effects. Most research studies have dealt with interruptions as isolated phenomena, ignoring the simultaneous or sequential occurrence of interruptions common in everyday life. We fill this gap and provide insight into the process of the accumulation of interruptions by mapping deep-level regulatio...

Neuroprotection does not work!

For more than 2 decades neurologists have searched for a drug that protects ischemic brain tissue from cell death— without success so far. The list of drugs tested in phase II and III trials is long. One of the first substances that showed a neuroprotective effect in experimental ischemia was the NMDA-antagonist MK-801,1 which protected hippocampal CA1 and CA2 pyramidal neurons. Besides NMDA an...

When tabling does not work

Tabled execution has been successfully applied in various domains such as program analysis, model checking, parsing, . . . A recent target of tabling is the optimization of Inductive Logic Programming. Due to the iterative nature of ILP algorithms, queries evaluated by these algorithms typically show a lot of similarity. To avoid repeated execution of identical parts of queries, answers to the ...