Stacking core layers is emerging as an alternative for future high performance computing, but thermal problems have to be tackled first. When adaptive voltage scaling is adopted to hide the growing variation in the performance of cores, as a result, heat generation of each core varies. By exploiting the static thermal characteristics, the efficiency of dynamic thermal management can be improved...

We address analytically and numerically theproblemofcrackpathprediction in themodelsystem of a crack propagating under thermal loading.We show that one can explain the instability from a straight to a wavy crack propagation by using only the principle of local symmetry and theGriffith criterion.We then argue that the calculations of the stress intensity factors can be combinedwith thestandardcr...

The static (parallel-plate thermal-gradient) diffusion chamber (SDC) was one of the first instruments designed to measure cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations as a function of supersaturation. It has probably also been the most widely used type of CCN counter. This paper describes the detailed experimental characterization of a SDC CCN counter, including calibration with respect to su...