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A Rosat Hri Observation Of The Supernova Remnant G109.1 – 1.0, Alan P. Hurford, Robert A. Fesen
A Rosat Hri Observation Of The Supernova Remnant G109.1 – 1.0, Alan P. Hurford, Robert A. Fesen
Dartmouth Scholarship
We present results of a search using ROSAT HRI data for X-ray spatial substructures in the galactic supernova remnant G109.1 – 1.0 which might indicate a connection between the remnant’s bright X-ray blob and its X-ray pulsar, 1E2259 + 586. A 0.1 – 2.4 keV HRI image, created by combining separate 28- and 22-ks pointings, reveals the presence of a few small-scale X-ray features, including a NE-SW emission ridge in the remnant’s X-ray blob. Two diffuse knots in the X-ray blob, previously suggested as being aligned with the X-ray pulsar, appear to be statistical fluctuations in the Einstein HRI data. …
Expanding The Potential For Disk-Directed I/O, David Kotz
Expanding The Potential For Disk-Directed I/O, David Kotz
Dartmouth Scholarship
As parallel computers are increasingly used to run scientific applications with large data sets, and as processor speeds continue to increase, it becomes more important to provide fast, effective parallel file systems for data storage and for temporary files. In an earlier work we demonstrated that a technique we call disk-directed I/O has the potential to provide consistent high performance for large, collective, structured I/O requests. In this paper we expand on this potential by demonstrating the ability of a disk-directed I/O system to read irregular subsets of data from a file, and to filter and distribute incoming data according …
Enwrich: A Compute-Processor Write Caching Scheme For Parallel File Systems, Apratim Purakayastha, Carla Schlatter Ellis, David Kotz
Enwrich: A Compute-Processor Write Caching Scheme For Parallel File Systems, Apratim Purakayastha, Carla Schlatter Ellis, David Kotz
Dartmouth Scholarship
Many parallel scientific applications need high-performance I/O. Unfortunately, end-to-end parallel-I/O performance has not been able to keep up with substantial improvements in parallel-I/O hardware because of poor parallel file-system software. Many radical changes, both at the interface level and the implementation level, have recently been proposed. One such proposed interface is \em collective I/O, which allows parallel jobs to request transfer of large contiguous objects in a single request, thereby preserving useful semantic information that would otherwise be lost if the transfer were expressed as per-processor non-contiguous requests. Kotz has proposed \em disk-directed I/O as an efficient implementation technique for …
Determination Of Malmquist Bias And Selection Effects From Monte Carlo Simulations, Wolfram Freudling, Luiz N. Da Costa, Gary Wegner, Riccardo Giovanelli
Determination Of Malmquist Bias And Selection Effects From Monte Carlo Simulations, Wolfram Freudling, Luiz N. Da Costa, Gary Wegner, Riccardo Giovanelli
Dartmouth Scholarship
Maps of the peculiar velocity field derived from distance relations are affected by Malmquist type bias and selection effects. Because of the large number of interdependent effects, they are in most cases difficult to treat analytically. Monte Carlo simulations are used to understand and evaluate these effects. In these simulations the "true" spatial distribution and relevant properties of galaxies as well as selection effects and observational uncertainties are realistically modeled. The results of the simulation can be directly applied to correct observed peculiar velocity maps. The simulation is used to investigate biases in samples of measured peculiar velocities by Lynden-Bell …
Disk-Directed I/O For An Out-Of-Core Computation, David Kotz
Disk-Directed I/O For An Out-Of-Core Computation, David Kotz
Dartmouth Scholarship
New file systems are critical to obtain good I/O performance on large multiprocessors. Several researchers have suggested the use of \em collective\/ file-system operations, in which all processes in an application cooperate in each I/O request. Others have suggested that the traditional low-level interface (\tt read, write, seek) be augmented with various higher-level requests (e.g., \em read matrix). Collective, high-level requests permit a technique called \em disk-directed I/O\/ to significantly improve performance over traditional file systems and interfaces, at least on simple I/O benchmarks. In this paper, we present the results of experiments with an “out-of-core” LU-decomposition program. Although its …
Discovery Of Extreme-Ultraviolet Radiation From The Seyfert Galaxy Ton S180 (=Euve J0057−223), Stéphane Vennes, Elisha Polomski, Stuart Bowyer, John R. Thorstensen
Discovery Of Extreme-Ultraviolet Radiation From The Seyfert Galaxy Ton S180 (=Euve J0057−223), Stéphane Vennes, Elisha Polomski, Stuart Bowyer, John R. Thorstensen
Dartmouth Scholarship
We report the detection of intense EUV radiation from the Seyfert 1 galaxy Ton S180. The source EUVE J0057-223, discovered in the Extreme-Ultraviolet Explorer all-sky survey, is only 25'' away from its optical counterpart, well within the position error circle. We present a complete broadband energy distribution of Ton S180 using infrared (IRAS), optical, ultraviolet (IUE) and X-ray (ROSAT) flux measurements, and we find that the measured EUV flux, corrected for neutral hydrogen and helium absorption in the Galaxy, suggests the presence of a strong EUV to soft X-ray flux excess. We briefly discuss …
Oscillons: Resonant Configurations During Bubble Collapse, E J. Copeland, M Gleiser, H R. Müller
Oscillons: Resonant Configurations During Bubble Collapse, E J. Copeland, M Gleiser, H R. Müller
Dartmouth Scholarship
Oscillons are localized, non-singular, time-dependent, spherically-symmetric solutions of nonlinear scalar field theories which, although unstable, are extremely long-lived. We show that they naturally appear during the collapse of subcritical bubbles in models with symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials. By a combination of analytical and numerical work we explain several of their properties, including the conditions for their existence, their longevity, and their final demise. We discuss several contexts in which we expect oscillons to be relevant. In particular, their nucleation during cosmological phase transitions may have wide-rangingconsequences.
Low-Level Interfaces For High-Level Parallel I/O, Nils Nieuwejaar, David Kotz
Low-Level Interfaces For High-Level Parallel I/O, Nils Nieuwejaar, David Kotz
Dartmouth Scholarship
As the I/O needs of parallel scientific applications increase, file systems for multiprocessors are being designed to provide applications with parallel access to multiple disks. Many parallel file systems present applications with a conventional Unix-like interface that allows the application to access multiple disks transparently. By tracing all the activity of a parallel file system in a production, scientific computing environment, we show that many applications exhibit highly regular, but non-consecutive I/O access patterns. Since the conventional interface does not provide an efficient method of describing these patterns, we present three extensions to the interface that support \em strided, \em …
Exploring The Use Of I/O Nodes For Computation In A Mimd Multiprocessor, David Kotz, Ting Cai
Exploring The Use Of I/O Nodes For Computation In A Mimd Multiprocessor, David Kotz, Ting Cai
Dartmouth Scholarship
As parallel systems move into the production scientific-computing world, the emphasis will be on cost-effective solutions that provide high throughput for a mix of applications. Cost-effective solutions demand that a system make effective use of all of its resources. Many MIMD multiprocessors today, however, distinguish between “compute” and “I/O” nodes, the latter having attached disks and being dedicated to running the file-system server. This static division of responsibilities simplifies system management but does not necessarily lead to the best performance in workloads that need a different balance of computation and I/O. \par Of course, computational processes sharing a node with …
The Orbital Period Of The Pre-Cataclysmic Binary Re 2013+400 And A Study Of The Atmosphere Of The Dao White Dwarf Primary, M. A. Barstow, M. R. Burleigh, T. A. Fleming, J. B. Holberg, D. Koester, M. C. Marsh, S. R. Rosen, R. G.M. Rutten, S. Sakai, R. W. Tweedy, G. Wegner
The Orbital Period Of The Pre-Cataclysmic Binary Re 2013+400 And A Study Of The Atmosphere Of The Dao White Dwarf Primary, M. A. Barstow, M. R. Burleigh, T. A. Fleming, J. B. Holberg, D. Koester, M. C. Marsh, S. R. Rosen, R. G.M. Rutten, S. Sakai, R. W. Tweedy, G. Wegner
Dartmouth Scholarship
Several pre-cataclysmic binaries, comprising a hot white dwarf with a red dwarf companion, have been discovered as a result of the optical identification of EUV sources from the ROSAT all-sky survey. The optical spectra have the steep blue continuum and Balmer absorption typical of a hot white dwarf, but there are bright, narrow emission lines of H I (and sometimes He I and Ca II) superimposed. An intense campaign of follow-up observations has been devoted to these binary systems. So far, only RE 2013+400 has exhibited any measurable changes in the radial velocities of the emission components, from which it …
Disk-Directed I/O For Mimd Multiprocessors, David Kotz
Disk-Directed I/O For Mimd Multiprocessors, David Kotz
Dartmouth Scholarship
Many scientific applications that run on today's multiprocessors are bottlenecked by their file I/O needs. Even if the multiprocessor is configured with sufficient I/O hardware, the file-system software often fails to provide the available bandwidth to the application. Although libraries and improved file-system interfaces can make a significant improvement, we believe that fundamental changes are needed in the file-server software. We propose a new technique, \em disk-directed I/O, that flips the usual relationship between server and client to allow the disks (actually, disk servers) to determine the flow of data for maximum performance. Our simulations show that tremendous performance gains …
File-System Workload On A Scientific Multiprocessor, David Kotz, Nils Nieuwejaar
File-System Workload On A Scientific Multiprocessor, David Kotz, Nils Nieuwejaar
Dartmouth Scholarship
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