Games consoles are becoming more versatile with the addition of hardware such as hard discs, modems and USB ports. With all these additions, they are beginning to encroach on the home computer (PC) market. The boundaries between the two groups are becoming blurred, and in the case of the Playstation2 shipping with Linux, almost inseparable. In the future, will we be programming on our Playstati...

Current PC processors are equipped with vector processing units and have other advanced features that can be used to accelerate lattice QCD programs. Clusters of PCs with a high-bandwidth network thus become powerful and cost-effective machines for numerical simulations.

The features of light absorption and localization in one-dimensional chirped photonic crystals (PCs) are studied. It is shown that although chirping leads to the loss ideal periodicity, integral over a wide spectral region energy density practically does not change. We have violation periodic structure (chirping) can only decrease broad absorption, but also lead an increase this PC, depends on ...

Research and development on the survivability of networks has largely focused on public switched telecommunications networks and high speed data networks with little attention on the survivability of wireless access networks supporting cellular and PCS communications. This paper provides an overview of the survivability issues in PCS networks with emphasis on the unique difficulties presented b...