This paper makes a case for why philosophy would be beneficial if promoted among the subjects offered to secondary students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Philosophical inquiry form of Philosophy Children (P4C) has made some inroads at primary level, but currently very few are as subject level. is suited standalone and incorporated into National Certificates Educational Achievement (NCEA) system. bee...

Rule 54, in Wolfram’s notation, is one of elementary yet complexly behaving one-dimensional cellular automata. The automaton supports gliders, glider guns and other non-trivial long transients. We show how to characterize gliders in Rule 54 by diagram representations as de Bruijn and cycle diagrams; offering a way to present each glider in Rule 54 with particular characteristics. This allows a ...

This article deals with two mechanisms for time synchronization over Ethernet networks, the “IEEE 1588 standard for a precision clock synchronization protocol for networked measurement and control systems” and the “synchronized universal time coordinated” technology. It presents a prototype system, which supports both synchronization mechanisms by offering dedicated hardware support on Ethernet...

The TAU performance system is an integrated performance instrumentation, measurement, and analysis toolkit offering support for profiling and tracing modes of measurement. This paper introduces memory introspection capabilities of TAU featured on the Cray XT3 Catamount compute node kernel. TAU supports examining the memory headroom, or the amount of heap memory available, at routine entry, and ...

Offering Grid services in an open market determines an optimization case for finding the best suitable resource allocation for a given number of requests and existing resources. Thus, appropriate resource allocation schemes, supporting accounting, are required in addition to a pricing scheme, which supports financial fairness criteria. The newly developed Resource Allocation Model Developed for...

During the past 14 years or so a large body of new evidence that supposedly supports the directed mutation hypothesis has accumulated. Interpretation of some of the evidence depends on mathematical reasoning, which can be subtler than it appears at first sight. This article attempts to clarify some of the mathematical issues arising from the directed mutation controversy, thereby offering alter...