The emergence of multicore architectures and highly scalable platforms motivates the development of novel algorithms and techniques that emphasize concurrency and are tolerant of deep memory hierarchies, as opposed to minimizing raw FLOP counts. While direct solvers are reliable, they are often slow and memory-intensive for large problems. Iterative solvers, on the other hand, are more efficien...

Banded linear systems with large bandwidths can be solved by similar methods as full linear systems. In particular, parallel algorithms based on torus-wrap mapping and Gaussian elimination with partial pivoting have been used with success. These algorithms are not suitable, however , if the bandwidth is small, say, between 1 and 100. As the bandwidth limits the amount of parallelism available a...

The Pb-Zn-Cu deposit of Ulldemolins occurs within the Carboniferous sedimentary series of the southernmost Catalonian Coastal Ranges. It consists of sulphide-bearing calc-silicate assemblages, with epidote, Ca-amphiboles and Ca-garnet, which develop selectively along a dolomicrite bed near the contact with a granite porphyry. Two mineralisation styles can be differentiated: a) banded and b) irr...

Meso-scale surface roughening evolution in 6022-T4 Al sheets was investigated using plane-strain tension. Formation of grain-scale hills and valleys and their relation to the morphologies and corresponding orientations of surface grains after deformation were examined experimentally. These observations were analyzed using various approaches based on the Schmid and Taylor crystal plasticity mode...

More recent models have attempted to use better physics to describe ice velocities in regions where velocities vary significantly over short distances. These models use a 3-dimensional, rectangular FEM grid. While the 2-dimensional model is used for an entire ice sheet, the 3-dimensional model is used over a limited area of interest with a smaller distance between grid points. Output of the 2-d...

BACKGROUND Cognitive impairment in the setting of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction remains poorly understood. Using aortic-banded miniature swine displaying pathological features of human heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, we tested the hypothesis that increased carotid artery stiffness and altered carotid blood flow control are associated with impaired memory indepen...

We tested the hypothesis that activation of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms in pressure-overload heart failure was prevented by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition, resulting in normalization of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ATPase (SERCA) 2a and phospholamban protein levels and improvement in intracellular Ca2+ handling. Aortic-banded and control guinea pigs were given ram...