OpenPC : A Toolkit for Public Cluster with Full Ownership

openPC : a toolkit for public cluster with full ownership

—The openPC is a set of open source tools that realizes a parallel machine and distributed computing environment divisible into several independent blocks of nodes, and each of them is remotely but fully in any means accessible for users with a full ownership policy. The openPC components address fundamental issues relating to security, resource access, resource allocation, compatibilities with...

Assessment of a cluster of gold nanoparticles effect on cell absorbed dose using the Geant4 toolkit

Introduction: Radiotherapy plays a vital role in cancer treatment. To establish a new potency in radiosensitize tumor cells, delivery of High-Z materials is offered. To date, several simulation geometries have been applied to define simulation sets. The clustering of nanoparticles (NPs) within the cells is a prominent parameter usually ignored in simulation studies. <stro...

A cluster-based parallel image processing toolkit

Many image processing tasks exhibit a high degree of data locality and parallelism and map quite readily to specialized massively parallel computing hardware. However, as network technologies continue to mature, workstation clusters are becoming a viable and economical parallel computing resource, so it is important to understand how to use these environments for parallel image processing as we...

Practitioners’ Toolkit for Agriculture Public Expenditure Analysis

Private ownership of public heritage

In 2003, the world celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the elucidation of the structure of DNA and, thus, the birth of molecular biology. As this period is now a part of human history, original documents from the founders of molecular biology are becoming increasingly important to scholars, and are being harshly fought over by public libraries and private collectors. Private correspondence, ...