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Locating And Protecting Facilities Subject To Random Disruptions And Attacks, Hugh Medal
Locating And Protecting Facilities Subject To Random Disruptions And Attacks, Hugh Medal
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Recent events such as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan have revealed the vulnerability of networks such as supply chains to disruptive events. In particular, it has become apparent that the failure of a few elements of an infrastructure system can cause a system-wide disruption. Thus, it is important to learn more about which elements of infrastructure systems are most critical and how to protect an infrastructure system from the effects of a disruption. This dissertation seeks to enhance the understanding of how to design and protect networked infrastructure systems from disruptions by developing new mathematical models and …
Extending The Hybridthread Smp Model For Distributed Memory Systems, Eugene Anthony Cartwright Iii
Extending The Hybridthread Smp Model For Distributed Memory Systems, Eugene Anthony Cartwright Iii
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Memory Hierarchy is of growing importance in system design today. As Moore's Law allows system designers to include more processors within their designs, data locality becomes a priority. Traditional multiprocessor systems on chip (MPSoC) experience difficulty scaling as the quantity of processors increases. This challenge is common behavior of memory accesses in a shared memory environment and causes a decrease in memory bandwidth as processor numbers increase. In order to provide the necessary levels of scalability, the computer architecture community has sought to decentralize memory accesses by distributing memory throughout the system. Distributed memory offers greater bandwidth due to decoupled …