Present study compares performance of proposed model [Hybrid Extended Kanban Control System (HEKCS)], with Extended Kanban Control System (EKCS) and Constant Work In Process (CONWIP) in a single line and multi stage manufacturing system with or without effect of machine breakdown. It was observed that, when demand rate increases, throughput, average WIP and utilization% also gradually increases...

This paper presents an SIMD processor array dedicated to the implementation of neural networks. The heart of this machine is a systolic array of simple processing elements (PEs). A VLSI custom chip containing 2 2 PEs was built. The machine is designed to sustain suucient instruction and data ows to keep a utilization rate close to 100 %. Finally, this computer is intended to be inserted in a ne...

BACKGROUND The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 offered the promise that prospective drug utilization review (pDUR) systems would improve the quality of drug prescribing and patient drug use. There is little evidence that this promise has been fulfilled. To the contrary, there is growing evidence that suboptimal use of drugs (in terms of preventable drug-related morbidity) is at least ...

Choice between SIMD and MIMD. Parallel programming languages are either synchronous or asynchronous, re ecting whether the target machine is either a SIMD or MIMD architecture. On SIMD machines, programs are restricted to total synchrony, even if that causes poor machine utilization. On MIMD machines, tightly synchronous execution is quite expensive to implement when needed. Since the choice is...

This paper presents an SIMD processor array dedicated to the implementation of neural networks. The heart of this machine is a systolic array of simple processing elements (PEs). A VLSI custom chip containing 2 2 PEs was built. The machine is designed to sustain suucient instruction and data ows to keep a utilization rate close to 100 %. Finally, this computer is intended to be inserted in a ne...

Clusters of commodity servers are increasingly the platform of choice for running computationally and IO intensive jobs in a variety of industries. It is expected that using clusters will reduce the average job response time. But improper submission of jobs to clusters may lead to two problems, first it leads to blocking of jobs (waiting for results from other jobs) second it leads to disturbin...

CONTEXT Retrospective drug utilization review is required of all state Medicaid programs and is performed by most private-sector prescription programs. However, it has not been shown to improve clinical outcomes or reduce the rate of potential prescribing errors, known as "exceptions." OBJECTIVE To look for an effect of retrospective drug utilization review on the rate of exceptions and of cl...

Virtualization is used to ease computing resource management, resource utilization and running multiple heterogeneous or homogeneous operating systems on a single physical machine. Virtualization offers many advantages such as reducing fiscal costs, easing system migration, running legacy applications, easing backups and disaster recovery, and utilizing the shared resources over traditional dat...