The advantages of using parallel processing technology in industrial applications lie in the field of cost reduction and turnaround time improvement. For example in seismic production, the improvement in turnaround time can lead to lower costs and quicker results for clients. Also in product development where computer simulations play a significant role, for instance drug design, aircraft desig...

Round Robin (RR) is a pre-emptive algorithm used in multiprogrammed, conventional systems to schedule all the processes which are present in ready queue for execution. It has some advantages over other algorithms i.e., it gives a chance to all process to utilize processor for equal time interval. But this technique increases average turnaround time, average waiting time and if quantum value is ...

BACKGROUND Despite significant gains made toward improving access, early infant diagnosis (EID) testing programs suffer from long test turnaround times that result in substantial loss to follow-up and mortality associated with delays in antiretroviral therapy initiation. These delays in treatment initiation are particularly impactful because of significant HIV-related infant mortality observed ...

In the Data Grid environment, the primary goal of data replication is to shorten the data access time experienced by the job and consequently reduce the job turnaround time. After introducing a Data Grid architecture that supports efficient data access for the Grid job, the dynamic data replication algorithms are put forward. Combined with different Grid scheduling heuristics, the performances ...

OBJECTIVE To see if, in the diagnosis of infant infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Zambia, turnaround times could be reduced by using an automated notification system based on mobile phone texting. METHODS In Zambia's Southern province, dried samples of blood from infants are sent to regional laboratories to be tested for HIV with polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Turnaround ...

Media access control (MAC) protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks are of interest in applications ranging from wireless local area networks (WLANs) to global skywave highfrequency radio networks. Much of the recent work in wireless MAC protocols has emphasized networks with short turnaround times (e.g., IEEE 802.11 WLANs). However, some wireless networks suffer lengthy turnaround times in the phy...