This paper describes our experience integrating the Parallella, an energy efficient single board computer (SBC) with 18 cores, into an undergraduate parallel computing course. The board's small form-factor, high number of cores and relative cheapness makes it a very attractive option for introducing students to parallel computing. We describe and reflect on our experiences using the Parallella ...

Access to computing resources, specifically highperformance parallel systems, is still a fundamental barrier to providing the necessary learning environment for many students in the Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) courses. Many top-ranked universities may have ample computing facilities for both research and education, however, other programs are not able to provide competitive infrast...

Let’s HPC (www.letshpc.org) is an open-access online platform to supplement conventional classroom oriented High Performance Computing (HPC) and Parallel & Distributed Computing (PDC) education. The web based platform provides online plotting and analysis tools which allow users to learn, evaluate, teach and see the performance of parallel algorithms from a system’s viewpoint. The user can quan...

This paper mainly investigates fuzzy control with affine T-S delayed models, which can be applied to some nonlinear systems. Motivated from performing the linearization process associated with distinct operating points for nonlinear systems, an affine T-S fuzzy model with delayed state is addressed. The overall control then can be performed by the fuzzy inference mechanism, in which the consequ...

IFN-I production is a characteristic of HIV/SIV primary infections. However, acute IFN-I plasma concentrations rapidly decline thereafter. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) are key players in this production but primary infection is associated with decreased responsiveness of pDC to TLR 7 and 9 triggering. IFNα production during primary SIV infection contrasts with increased pDC death, renewal...

This study presents a design methodology for Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models-based secure communications in multiple time-delay chaotic (MTDC) systems with Rivest cipher 4 (RC4) algorithm. The main advantage of the RC4 algorithm is that key length does not affect encryption and decryption speeds. To block hacker from stealing message, this proposes increasing complexity an encrypted message (c...