This paper describes the architecture of global distributed storage system for data grid. It focue on the management and the capability for the maximum users and maximum resources on the Internet, as well as performan...This paper describes the architecture of global distributed storage system for data grid. It focue on the management and the capability for the maximum users and maximum resources on the Internet, as well as performance and other issues.展开更多
An ADS （automated dispensing system） was implemented in our hospital pharmacy in 2008 to optimize and secure the medication process. The main objective of this study was to compare the projected and the real ROI （r...An ADS （automated dispensing system） was implemented in our hospital pharmacy in 2008 to optimize and secure the medication process. The main objective of this study was to compare the projected and the real ROI （return on investment）, after seven years of use. ROI was calculated annually （from 2008 to 2015）, by deducting the cost of investment （ADS buying and implementation, maintenance, repairs and ADS upgrade） from the cost saving （drugs stock reduction and decrease of pharmacy staff dedicated to global dispensing）. In 2015, total costs saving （＋$1,141,987） were divided between decreasing drug stock value and reduction of pharmacy staff. Total costs of investment （-$978,656） were acquisition, maintenance, repairs and an unplanned upgrade costs. Finally, the real ROI was ＋$163,331 after seven years of use. In 2008, projected ROI was ＋$410,786. The real payback period has been increased by approximately two years （six years of use, instead of four years as expected）. Despite their cost, ADSs are a worthwhile investment, leading to a ROI within a few years. These economic considerations should be put into perspective with optimization of drugs stock management, greater efficiency of the global dispensing process, securitization of medication process and redeployment of pharmacy staff.展开更多
An LES simulation of flow over an accumulator unit of an underwater compressed air energy storage facility was conducted. The accumulator unit consists of three touching underwater balloons arranged in a floral config...An LES simulation of flow over an accumulator unit of an underwater compressed air energy storage facility was conducted. The accumulator unit consists of three touching underwater balloons arranged in a floral configuration. The structure of the flow was examined via three dimensional iso surfaces of the Q criterion. Vortical cores were observed on the leeward surface of the balloons. The swirling tube flows generated by these vortical cores were depicted through three dimensional path lines. The flow dynamics were visualized via time series snapshots of two dimensional vorticity contours perpendicular to the flow direction; revealing the turbulent swinging motions of the aforementioned shedding-swirling tube flows. The time history of the hydrodynamic loading was presented in terms of lift and drag coefficients. Drag coefficient of each individual balloon in the floral configuration was smaller than that of a single balloon. It was found that the total drag coefficient of the floral unit of three touching balloons, i.e. summation of the drag coefficients of the balloons, is not too much larger than that of a single balloon whereas it provides three times the storage capacity. In addition to its practical significance in designing appropriate foundation and supports, the instantaneous hydrodynamic loading was used to determine the frequency of the turbulent swirling-swinging motions of the shedding vortex tubes; the Strouhal number was found to be larger than that of a single sphere at the same Reynolds number.展开更多
More and more out of core problems that involve solving large amounts of data are researched by scientists. The computational grid provides a wide and scalable environment for those large scale computations. A new met...More and more out of core problems that involve solving large amounts of data are researched by scientists. The computational grid provides a wide and scalable environment for those large scale computations. A new method supporting out of core computations on grids is presented in this paper. The framework and the data storage strategy are described, based on which an easy and efficient out of core programming interface is provided for the programmers.展开更多
Ecosystem carbon allocation can indicate ecosystem carbon cycling visually through its quantification within different carbon pools and carbon exchange.Using the ecological inventory and eddy covariance measurement ap...Ecosystem carbon allocation can indicate ecosystem carbon cycling visually through its quantification within different carbon pools and carbon exchange.Using the ecological inventory and eddy covariance measurement applied to both a mature temperate mixed forest in Changbai Mountain (CBM)and a mature subtropical evergreen forest in Dinghu Mountain (DHM),we partitioned the ecosystem carbon pool and carbon exchange into different components,determined the allocation and analyzed relationships within those components.Generally, the total carbon stock of CBM was slightly higher than that of DHM due to a higher carbon stock in the arbor layer at CBM.It was interesting that the proportions of carbon stock in vegetation,soil and litter were similar for the two mature forests.The ratio of vegetation carbon pool to soil carbon stock was 1.5 at CBM and 1.3 at DHM.However, more carbon was allocated to the trunk and root from the vegetation carbon pool at CBM,while more carbon was allocated to foliage and branches at DHM.Moreover,77% of soil carbon storage was limited to the surface soil layer (0-20cm),while there was still plentiful carbon stored in the deeper soil layers at DHM.The root/shoot ratios were 0.30 and 0.25 for CBM and DHM,respectively.The rates of net ecosystem productivity (NPP)to gross ecosystem productivity (GPP)were 0.76 and 0.58,and the ratios of ecosystem respiration (Re)to GPP were 0.98and 0.87for CBM and DHM,respectively.The net ecosystem carbon exchange/productivity (NEP)was 0.24t C ha^-1 yr^-1 for CBM and 3.38t C ha^-1 yr^-1 for DHM.Due to the common seasonal and inter-annual variations of ecosystem carbon exchange resulting from the influence of environmental factors,it was necessary to use the long record dataset to evaluate the ecosystem sink capacity.展开更多
As we approach the exascale era in supercomputing, designing a balanced computer system with a powerful computing ability and low power requirements has becoming increasingly important. The graphics processing unit（...As we approach the exascale era in supercomputing, designing a balanced computer system with a powerful computing ability and low power requirements has becoming increasingly important. The graphics processing unit（GPU） is an accelerator used widely in most of recent supercomputers. It adopts a large number of threads to hide a long latency with a high energy efficiency. In contrast to their powerful computing ability, GPUs have only a few megabytes of fast on-chip memory storage per streaming multiprocessor（SM）. The GPU cache is inefficient due to a mismatch between the throughput-oriented execution model and cache hierarchy design. At the same time, current GPUs fail to handle burst-mode long-access latency due to GPU＇s poor warp scheduling method.Thus, benefits of GPU＇s high computing ability are reduced dramatically by the poor cache management and warp scheduling methods, which limit the system performance and energy efficiency. In this paper, we put forward a coordinated warp scheduling and locality-protected（CWLP） cache allocation scheme to make full use of data locality and hide latency. We first present a locality-protected cache allocation method based on the instruction program counter（LPC） to promote cache performance. Specifically, we use a PC-based locality detector to collect the reuse information of each cache line and employ a prioritised cache allocation unit（PCAU） which coordinates the data reuse information with the time-stamp information to evict the lines with the least reuse possibility. Moreover, the locality information is used by the warp scheduler to create an intelligent warp reordering scheme to capture locality and hide latency. Simulation results show that CWLP provides a speedup up to 19.8% and an average improvement of 8.8% over the baseline methods.展开更多
Energy storage plays an increasingly important role in modem power systems. It can add value to power systems in various aspects. This paper discusses possible energy storage system （ESS） applications and their bene...Energy storage plays an increasingly important role in modem power systems. It can add value to power systems in various aspects. This paper discusses possible energy storage system （ESS） applications and their benefits to power systems. The system configuration, converter design, and recent field installations of an LV converter based ESS are presented.展开更多
文摘This paper describes the architecture of global distributed storage system for data grid. It focue on the management and the capability for the maximum users and maximum resources on the Internet, as well as performance and other issues.
文摘An ADS （automated dispensing system） was implemented in our hospital pharmacy in 2008 to optimize and secure the medication process. The main objective of this study was to compare the projected and the real ROI （return on investment）, after seven years of use. ROI was calculated annually （from 2008 to 2015）, by deducting the cost of investment （ADS buying and implementation, maintenance, repairs and ADS upgrade） from the cost saving （drugs stock reduction and decrease of pharmacy staff dedicated to global dispensing）. In 2015, total costs saving （＋$1,141,987） were divided between decreasing drug stock value and reduction of pharmacy staff. Total costs of investment （-$978,656） were acquisition, maintenance, repairs and an unplanned upgrade costs. Finally, the real ROI was ＋$163,331 after seven years of use. In 2008, projected ROI was ＋$410,786. The real payback period has been increased by approximately two years （six years of use, instead of four years as expected）. Despite their cost, ADSs are a worthwhile investment, leading to a ROI within a few years. These economic considerations should be put into perspective with optimization of drugs stock management, greater efficiency of the global dispensing process, securitization of medication process and redeployment of pharmacy staff.
文摘An LES simulation of flow over an accumulator unit of an underwater compressed air energy storage facility was conducted. The accumulator unit consists of three touching underwater balloons arranged in a floral configuration. The structure of the flow was examined via three dimensional iso surfaces of the Q criterion. Vortical cores were observed on the leeward surface of the balloons. The swirling tube flows generated by these vortical cores were depicted through three dimensional path lines. The flow dynamics were visualized via time series snapshots of two dimensional vorticity contours perpendicular to the flow direction; revealing the turbulent swinging motions of the aforementioned shedding-swirling tube flows. The time history of the hydrodynamic loading was presented in terms of lift and drag coefficients. Drag coefficient of each individual balloon in the floral configuration was smaller than that of a single balloon. It was found that the total drag coefficient of the floral unit of three touching balloons, i.e. summation of the drag coefficients of the balloons, is not too much larger than that of a single balloon whereas it provides three times the storage capacity. In addition to its practical significance in designing appropriate foundation and supports, the instantaneous hydrodynamic loading was used to determine the frequency of the turbulent swirling-swinging motions of the shedding vortex tubes; the Strouhal number was found to be larger than that of a single sphere at the same Reynolds number.
文摘More and more out of core problems that involve solving large amounts of data are researched by scientists. The computational grid provides a wide and scalable environment for those large scale computations. A new method supporting out of core computations on grids is presented in this paper. The framework and the data storage strategy are described, based on which an easy and efficient out of core programming interface is provided for the programmers.
基金National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFC0503801,2016YFC0500202)National Natural Science Foundation of China(31570446)Science and Technology Service Network Initiative(KFJ-SW-STS-169)
文摘Ecosystem carbon allocation can indicate ecosystem carbon cycling visually through its quantification within different carbon pools and carbon exchange.Using the ecological inventory and eddy covariance measurement applied to both a mature temperate mixed forest in Changbai Mountain (CBM)and a mature subtropical evergreen forest in Dinghu Mountain (DHM),we partitioned the ecosystem carbon pool and carbon exchange into different components,determined the allocation and analyzed relationships within those components.Generally, the total carbon stock of CBM was slightly higher than that of DHM due to a higher carbon stock in the arbor layer at CBM.It was interesting that the proportions of carbon stock in vegetation,soil and litter were similar for the two mature forests.The ratio of vegetation carbon pool to soil carbon stock was 1.5 at CBM and 1.3 at DHM.However, more carbon was allocated to the trunk and root from the vegetation carbon pool at CBM,while more carbon was allocated to foliage and branches at DHM.Moreover,77% of soil carbon storage was limited to the surface soil layer (0-20cm),while there was still plentiful carbon stored in the deeper soil layers at DHM.The root/shoot ratios were 0.30 and 0.25 for CBM and DHM,respectively.The rates of net ecosystem productivity (NPP)to gross ecosystem productivity (GPP)were 0.76 and 0.58,and the ratios of ecosystem respiration (Re)to GPP were 0.98and 0.87for CBM and DHM,respectively.The net ecosystem carbon exchange/productivity (NEP)was 0.24t C ha^-1 yr^-1 for CBM and 3.38t C ha^-1 yr^-1 for DHM.Due to the common seasonal and inter-annual variations of ecosystem carbon exchange resulting from the influence of environmental factors,it was necessary to use the long record dataset to evaluate the ecosystem sink capacity.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61170083)the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education,China(No.20114307110001)
文摘As we approach the exascale era in supercomputing, designing a balanced computer system with a powerful computing ability and low power requirements has becoming increasingly important. The graphics processing unit（GPU） is an accelerator used widely in most of recent supercomputers. It adopts a large number of threads to hide a long latency with a high energy efficiency. In contrast to their powerful computing ability, GPUs have only a few megabytes of fast on-chip memory storage per streaming multiprocessor（SM）. The GPU cache is inefficient due to a mismatch between the throughput-oriented execution model and cache hierarchy design. At the same time, current GPUs fail to handle burst-mode long-access latency due to GPU＇s poor warp scheduling method.Thus, benefits of GPU＇s high computing ability are reduced dramatically by the poor cache management and warp scheduling methods, which limit the system performance and energy efficiency. In this paper, we put forward a coordinated warp scheduling and locality-protected（CWLP） cache allocation scheme to make full use of data locality and hide latency. We first present a locality-protected cache allocation method based on the instruction program counter（LPC） to promote cache performance. Specifically, we use a PC-based locality detector to collect the reuse information of each cache line and employ a prioritised cache allocation unit（PCAU） which coordinates the data reuse information with the time-stamp information to evict the lines with the least reuse possibility. Moreover, the locality information is used by the warp scheduler to create an intelligent warp reordering scheme to capture locality and hide latency. Simulation results show that CWLP provides a speedup up to 19.8% and an average improvement of 8.8% over the baseline methods.
文摘Energy storage plays an increasingly important role in modem power systems. It can add value to power systems in various aspects. This paper discusses possible energy storage system （ESS） applications and their benefits to power systems. The system configuration, converter design, and recent field installations of an LV converter based ESS are presented.
