The behavior of steel-concrete composite beams is strongly influenced by the type of shear connection between the steel beam and the concrete slab. For accurate analytical predictions, the structural model must account for the interlayer slip between these two components. In numerous engineering applications e.g., in the fields of structural optimization, structural reliability analysis, and fi...

Phenomenal improvements in the computational performance of multiprocessors have not been matched by comparable gains in I/O system performance. This imbalance has resulted in I/O becoming a significant bottleneck for many scientific applications. One key to overcoming this bottleneck is improving the performance of parallel file systems. The design of a high-performance parallel file system re...

This paper presents an eecient data-parallel algorithm for general convolutions, and compares its performance on the CM-5 to FFT frequency ltering. Sequential FFT lters are faster than sequential convo-lutions for windows beyond a very small size, typically 6 6 pixels. Our folded convolution algorithm shifts the convolution/FFT performance crossover to much larger lter sizes. For 256256 images ...