Slouching Towards Equality

Slouching Towards Exascale

One question before the high-performance computing community is "How will application developers write code for exascale machines?" At this point it looks like they might be riding a rough beast indeed. This talk is a brief assessment of where we stand now with respect to writing programs for our largest supercomputers and what we should do next. MPI is likely to remain a critical part of the p...

Slouching towards Bethlehem: the beast of biocompatibility.

In this issue of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Haag-Weber and colleagues report the results of a randomized, multi-centre study comparing the use of a peritoneal dialysis (PD) solution with low levels of glucose degradation products (GDPs) to conventional solutions produced by three major suppliers (Gambrosol, Stay-safe and Dianeal)[1]. In contrast to other studies, the patients inc...

Towards Energy Equality

4 Although there is no speciic Millennium Development Goal relating to energy, it will be impossible to achieve the MDGs without improving access to, as well as the quality and quantity of, energy services in the developing world. Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

Towards Characterising Equality in Correlation Inequalities

Towards characterizing equality in correlation inequalities

For most of the basic inequalities in mathematics we know conditions which completely specify the cases of equality. Many combinatorial correlation inequalities are special cases of the AD-inequality, as explained in [3, 8, 10]. However, for this inequality it seems to be difficult to classify the cases of equality. Certainly this is even more difficult for the much more general inequalities of...