We present a computational model of three-dimensional and unsteady hemodynamics within the primary large arteries in the human on 1,572,864 cores of the IBM Blue Gene/Q. Models of large regions of the circulatory system are needed to study the impact of local factors on global hemodynamics and to inform next generation drug delivery mechanisms. The HARVEY code successfully addresses key challen...

Future multimedia communication products require system chips that provide sufficient computing capacity and configuration flexibility for achieving interoperability between different communication systems and support for various multimedia signal processing standards. A flexible DSP platform that utilises pre-designed IP cores, such as DSP and RISC processors, advanced coprocessors for critica...

A high-resolution ac calorimetric study has been carried out on two homologous polar liquid crystals with aromatic cores containing three phenyl groups and a flexible chiral linking group. The expected smectic polymorphism occurs, and there are several prominent thermal features in the nematic range between smecticAd and smectic-C̃ phases. It is suggested on the basis of characteristic thermal s...

Increasing globalization, ever-changing market dynamics and volatile business conditions require organizations to become more agile and flexible to ensure sustainability, growth and business continuity. Companies must be aware of all the factors that impact their businesses and understand how to embrace new technologies and ways of working that can deliver enhanced business benefits, and avoid ...

In this paper we present the design and implementation of an MPSoC built to explore tradeoffs in multicore design space and to evaluate parallel programming proposals such as Transactional Memory (TM). Our flexible system, comprised of MIPS R3000-compatible cores is easily modifiable to study different architecture, library and operating system extensions. For this paper we evaluate a 16-core H...

Multicore processors promise dramatic improvements in performance, but their diverse and often unique architectures are a major inhibitor to software adoption. Algorithm libraries that operate at the chip level and are optimized across multiple cores provide the quickest route by which programmers can port or develop highperformance software for multicores. This paper reports on a flexible matr...

Hardware designers are adding additional cores to chips in an attempt to improve throughput performance. These multicore systems share hardware resources at multiple levels of the system. The question is when multiple applications run on the same chip, how do they interact with the shared resources, and how do these interactions effect performance? Traditional profile based approaches that aggr...

The redFIR2 project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits is a tool that provides optimised Finite Impulse Response structures. The generation process of these structures is based on a component library containing seven scalable basismodules. Depending on the chosen Integrated Circuit technology and on the I/O wordlengths the resource utilisation of the modules differ considerably...