Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), a warm season, C4, perennial grass, is one of the predominant grass species of the North American tall grass prairies. It is viewed as a high-potential bioenergy feedstock species because it can produce large amounts of lignocellulosic material with relatively few inputs. The objectives of this project were to develop an advanced switchgrass population and use...

Abstract The creation of the map on-the-fly becomes today an important domain in cartography. Thousands of the users need access to spatial data on the web specific to their needs. This requires generating a map in real time. Different approaches appeared for optimizing the on-the-fly generation maps, but those not suffice for guiding a powerful and efficient process. Thus, a new approach must ...

Matei Ripeanu T his work sheds light on the importance of carefully considering the choice of the data structures used when porting applications to hybrid architectures (e.g., GPU-based platforms). In this context, we analyze and evaluate the impact of the data structures used to support ‘sequence alignment,’ one of the most computationally intensive bioinformatics problems. MUMmerGPU++, our ex...

Based on the analysis of the properties of tent map, parallel chaos optimization algorithm (PCOA) using logistic map and outlook algorithm, a hybrid global optimization algorithm (PCOOA) is presented. The algorithm is structured in two stages. The first stage uses parallel chaos optimization based on tent map for global search, while outlook algorithm is employed in the second stage for local s...