Gold and tobacco have both been used as commodity money. One difference between the two is that gold yields utility, on account of its beauty, without diminishing its quantity. Tobacco yields utility when it is consumed. If this were the only difference, which would be the better money?

Large scale QCD Monte Carlo calculations have typically been performed on either commercial supercomputers or specially built massively parallel computers such as Fermilab’s ACPMAPS. Commodity computer systems offer impressive floating point performance-tocost ratios which exceed those of commercial supercomputers. As high performance networking components approach commodity pricing, it becomes...

Currently, hardware designed and certified for safety-critical systems is one important building block for any safety-critical application. Such hardware provides the detection of execution errors. However, many modern safety-critical applications, like autonomous driving, require features and performance levels that are not available from safety-certified hardware. One solution to this problem...

Brooksley Elizabeth Born, of the District of Columbia, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the remainder of the term expiring April 13, 1999. Brooksley Elizabeth Born, of the District of Columbia, to be Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. David D. Spears, of Kansas, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the term e...

Following the common use of of commodity hardware to build clusters, we argue that commodity software should be harnessed in a similar way to support Scientiic and Engineering work. Problem Solving Environments (PSE) provide the arena where commodity software technology can modernise the development and execution environment. We describe a PSE prototype based on the standard software infrastruc...

1. Abstract The software package presented within this paper has proven to be capable of managing the storage and exchange of several hundreds of terabytes of data, transparently distributed among dozens of disk storage nodes. One of the key design features of the dCache is that although the location and multiplicity of the data is autonomously determined by the system, based on configuration, ...

Currently, there are a number of advertising and promotion programs associated with agricultural commodities. ‘Got Milk?’ ‘Pork. The Other White Meat,’ ‘Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives,’ ‘Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner,’ and ‘American Lamb from American Land’ are examples of messages from various commodity boards who are attempting to impact the demand for their agricultural products. These messa...