Programming for large-scale, multicore-based architectures requires adequate tools that offer ease of programming and do not hinder application performance. StarSs is a family of parallel programming models based on automatic function-level parallelism that targets productivity. StarSs deploys a data-flow model: it analyzes dependencies between tasks and manages their execution, exploiting thei...

The classical susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model, originated from the seminal papers of Ross [51] and Ross and Hudson [52,53] in 1916-1917 and the fundamental contributions of Kermack and McKendrick [36-38] in 1927-1932, describes the transmission of infectious diseases between susceptible and infective individuals and provides the basic framework for almost all later epidemic models,...

IBM POWER6 microprocessorbased systems H.-Y. McCreary M. A. Broyles M. S. Floyd A. J. Geissler S. P. Hartman F. L. Rawson T. J. Rosedahl J. C. Rubio M. S. Ware With increasing processor speed and density, denser system packaging, and other technology advances, system power and heat have become important design considerations. The introduction of new technology including denser circuits, improve...

conclusions in summary, there is a lack of consensus about the use of neuromuscular blockers in patients with ibm. the authors avoided these drugs and were able to easily secure the patient’s airway and maintain adequate muscle relaxation using a balanced sevoflurane-remifentanil anesthetic. clinical trials are necessary to define the pharmacology of neuromuscular blockers in patients with ibm ...

We present a portable, parallel implementation of an urban air quality model. The parallel model runs on the Intel Delta, Intel Paragon, IBM SP2, and Cray T3D, using a variety of standard communication libraries. We analyze the performance of the air quality model on these platforms based on a model derived from the parallel communication behavior and sequential execution time of the air qualit...

The following article is the verbatim text of a report based on research funded by the Social Security Administration and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the Rand Corporation. The report looks at changing fertility rates in the United States and their implications for future population size and age distributions. An economic model of fertility rate is used to exp...