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Heterogeneous Computing, Howard Jay Siegel, John K. Antonio, Richard C. Metzger, Min Tan, Yan Alexander Li Dec 1994

Heterogeneous Computing, Howard Jay Siegel, John K. Antonio, Richard C. Metzger, Min Tan, Yan Alexander Li

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

A heterogeneous computing (HC) system provides a variety of architectural capabilities, orchestrated to perform an application whose subtasks have diverse execution requirements. One type of heterogeneous computing system is a mixed-mode machine, where a single machine can operate in different modes of parallelism. Another is a mixed-machine system, where a suite of different kinds of high-performance machines are interconnected by high-:speed links. To exploit such systems, a task must be decomposed into subtasks, where each subtask is computationally homogeneous. The subtasks are then assigned to and executed with the machines (or modes) that will result in a minimal overall execution …


Image Processing And Computer Graphics Algorithms For Surface Rendering From Mri Data. , Arda Kamil Bafra, Okan K. Ersoy, David J. Hansen Dec 1994

Image Processing And Computer Graphics Algorithms For Surface Rendering From Mri Data. , Arda Kamil Bafra, Okan K. Ersoy, David J. Hansen

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

The reconstruction of objects in three dimensions, from two-dimensional MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) slices is a powerful tool for better understanding of anatomical structures. In this work, a combination of image processing and computer graphics techniques has been used to develop the required algorithms for surface rendering of anatomical structures from MRI data. Surface rendering is performed in two stages. In the first stage, image processing techniques have been used to develop the required algorithms for the extraction of the data, which is then transferred to a computer graphics environment. The proposed algorithms are for successive automatic segmentation using Markov …


Display User Manual Version 1.1, Edward Mascarenhas, Vernon J. Rego Dec 1994

Display User Manual Version 1.1, Edward Mascarenhas, Vernon J. Rego

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Ariadne User Manual Version 2.0, Edward Mascarenhas, Vernon J. Rego, Vaidy Sunderam Dec 1994

Ariadne User Manual Version 2.0, Edward Mascarenhas, Vernon J. Rego, Vaidy Sunderam

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Development Of A Highway Safety Management System For Indiana: Phase 1, Omar Farooq, Kumares C. Sinha, John Nagle, Dwayne Stanley James, Yi Jiang Dec 1994

Development Of A Highway Safety Management System For Indiana: Phase 1, Omar Farooq, Kumares C. Sinha, John Nagle, Dwayne Stanley James, Yi Jiang

JTRP Technical Reports

This report presents the work plan for the development of a highway safety management system for Indiana. It identifies major activities and responsibilities for the development and implementation of a formal, statewide, interactive safety decision-making process. The safety management system of Indiana is perceived as a continuous process of considering all opportunities to improve highway safety in all phases of highway planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation. The primary emphasis is on coordination of activities at various levels and on the development of a common information data base that can be used for selecting and implementing effective highway safety strategies …


A Prototype Computational Phantom To Create Digital Images For Research And Training In Diagnostic Radiology, Charles F. Babbs Nov 1994

A Prototype Computational Phantom To Create Digital Images For Research And Training In Diagnostic Radiology, Charles F. Babbs

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Working Papers

Research in the processing, compression, transmission, and interpretation of digital radiographic images require the testing and evaluation of a wide variety of images, varying both in format and in spatial resolution. If receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis or a related method is used to evaluate the performance of observers using novel vs. conventional displays, large numbers of test images containing known abnormalities are required. This report describes a convenient, inexpensive, and reproducible source of test images, having any desired resolution and containing precisely defined abnormalities of unlimited subtlety. The images are generated by computing x-ray transmission through mathematically defined, three …


Design And Analysis Of Transmitter Diversity Using Intentional Frequency Offset For Wireless Communications, Wen-Yi Kuo, Michael P. Fitz Nov 1994

Design And Analysis Of Transmitter Diversity Using Intentional Frequency Offset For Wireless Communications, Wen-Yi Kuo, Michael P. Fitz

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Coded modulation (usually with interleaving) is used in fading channel cornmunications to achieve good error performance. The major benefit froin using coded modulation in fading channels is achieved if each code symbol of a codeword (or coded sequence) suffers statistically different fading (preferably independent fading). However, in many applications of mobile communications (e.g. in a metropolitan environment), a low vehicle speed (and hence a small Doppler spread) is very common. With a small Doppler spread, ideal or close-to-ideal interleaving is no longer feasible and all code symbols of a codeword would suffer highly correlated fading especially in stationary fading (Doppler …


Contour Ranking On Coarse Grained Machines: A Case Study For Low-Level Vision Computations, Farooq Hameed, Ashfaq A. Khokhar, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Jamshed Patel Nov 1994

Contour Ranking On Coarse Grained Machines: A Case Study For Low-Level Vision Computations, Farooq Hameed, Ashfaq A. Khokhar, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Jamshed Patel

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Problem Solving In Human Beings And Computers (Formerly: Heuristic Problem Solving), Zygmunt Pizlo, Anupam Joshi, Scott M. Graham Nov 1994

Problem Solving In Human Beings And Computers (Formerly: Heuristic Problem Solving), Zygmunt Pizlo, Anupam Joshi, Scott M. Graham

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Explicit Orthonormal Bases For Functions Exhibiting The Rotational Symmetries Of A Platonic Solid, Yibin Zheng, Peter C. Doerschuk Oct 1994

Explicit Orthonormal Bases For Functions Exhibiting The Rotational Symmetries Of A Platonic Solid, Yibin Zheng, Peter C. Doerschuk

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

We compute explicit orthonormal bases for functions invariant under the rotational symmetries of a Platonic solid. Each function in the basis is a linear combination of spherical harmonics. For each symmetry (icosahedral, octahedral, tetrahedral) the calculation has three steps: First derive a bilinear equation for the coefficients by comparing the expansion of a symmetrized delta functioii in both spherical harmonics and the symmetric harmonics. The equation is parameterized by the location (Θ0,Ø0) of the delta function and must be ~at~isfiefodr all locations. Second, express t,he dependence on the delta function location in a Fourier (Ø0) and Taylor (Θ0) series and …


Dist A Distribution Independent Parallel Programs For Matrix Multiplication, Hyuk J. Lee, José A.B. Fortes Oct 1994

Dist A Distribution Independent Parallel Programs For Matrix Multiplication, Hyuk J. Lee, José A.B. Fortes

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

This report considers the problem of writing data distribution independent (DDI) programs in order to eliminate or reduce initial data redistribution overheads for distributed memory parallel computers. The functionality and execution time of DDI programs are independent of initial data distributions. First, modular mappings, which can be used to derive many equally optimal ant1 functionally equivalent programs, are briefly reviewed. Relations between modular mappings and input data distributions are then established. These relations are the basis of a systematic approach to the derivation of DDI programs which is illustrated for matrix-matrix multiplication(c = a x b). Conditions on data distributions …


On Editability Of Feature-Based Design, Xiangping Chen, Christoph M. Hoffmann Oct 1994

On Editability Of Feature-Based Design, Xiangping Chen, Christoph M. Hoffmann

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tree Structured Grobner Basis Computation On Parallel Machines, Hemal V. Shah, Jose A. B. Fortes Oct 1994

Tree Structured Grobner Basis Computation On Parallel Machines, Hemal V. Shah, Jose A. B. Fortes

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

With the advent of symbolic mathematical software packages such as Maple, Mathematics, and Macsyma, symbolic computation has become widely used in many scientific applications. Though a significant effort has been put in performing numeric computation on multiprocessors, symbolic computation on parallel machines is still in an unexplored state. However, symbolic mathematical applications are ideal candidates for parallel processing, because they are computationally intensive. This paper considers the parallel computation of Grobner basis, a special basis for a multivariate polynomial ideal over a field that plays a key role in symbolic computation. Large Grobner basis computation poses a challenging problem due …


Modeling Of Growth Rates Of Selective Epitaxial Growth (Seg) And Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth (Elo) Of Silicon In The Sih2cl2-Hcl-H2 System, Poonacha P. Kongetira, Gerold W. Neudeck, John P. Denton Oct 1994

Modeling Of Growth Rates Of Selective Epitaxial Growth (Seg) And Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth (Elo) Of Silicon In The Sih2cl2-Hcl-H2 System, Poonacha P. Kongetira, Gerold W. Neudeck, John P. Denton

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

A semi-empirical model for the growth rate of selective epitaxial silicon(SEG) in the Dichlorosilane-HC1-Hz system that represents the experimenltal data has been presented. All epitaxy runs were done using a Gemini-I LPCVD pancake reactor. Dichlorosilane was used as the source gas and hydrogen as the carrier gas. Hydrogen Cllloride(HC1) was used to ensure that no nucleation took place on the oxide. The growth rate expression was considered to be the sum of a growth term dependent on the partial pressures of Dichlorosilane and hydrogen, and an etch berm that varies as the partial pressure of HC1. The growth and etch …


Asymptotically Optimal Heuristics For Bottleneck And Capacity Optimization Problems, Wojciech Szpankowski Oct 1994

Asymptotically Optimal Heuristics For Bottleneck And Capacity Optimization Problems, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Bit-Sequences: A Cache Invalidation Algorithm In Mobile Environments, Jin Jing, Omran Bukhres, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Rafael Alonso Oct 1994

Bit-Sequences: A Cache Invalidation Algorithm In Mobile Environments, Jin Jing, Omran Bukhres, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Rafael Alonso

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Geometric Contraints For Cagd, Christoph M. Hoffmann, Jörg Peters Oct 1994

Geometric Contraints For Cagd, Christoph M. Hoffmann, Jörg Peters

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Distributed Lock Management For Mobile Transactions, Jin Jing, Omran Bukhres, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Oct 1994

Distributed Lock Management For Mobile Transactions, Jin Jing, Omran Bukhres, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


A Pattern Matching Model For Misuse Intrusion Detection, Sandeep Kumar, Eugene H. Spafford Oct 1994

A Pattern Matching Model For Misuse Intrusion Detection, Sandeep Kumar, Eugene H. Spafford

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Scheduling A Superscalar Pipelined Processor Without Hardware Interlocks, Heng-Yi Chao, Mary P. Harper Sep 1994

Scheduling A Superscalar Pipelined Processor Without Hardware Interlocks, Heng-Yi Chao, Mary P. Harper

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling a set of instructions on a single processor with multiple pipelined functional units. In a superscalar processor, the hardware can issue multiple instructions every cycle, providing a fine-grained parallelism for achieving order-ofmagnitude speed-ups. It is well known that the problem of scheduling a pipelined processor with uniform latencies, which is a subclass of the problem we consider here, belongs to the class of NP-Complete problems. We present an efficient lower bound algorithm that coniputes a tight lower bound on the length of an optimal schedule, and a new heuristic scheduling algorithm …


An Analytic Approach For The Asymptotic Distribution Of The Height Of An Incomplete Digital Tree, Hosam Mahmoud, Wojciech Szpankowski Sep 1994

An Analytic Approach For The Asymptotic Distribution Of The Height Of An Incomplete Digital Tree, Hosam Mahmoud, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Interpolation Regions For Convex Low Degree Polynomial Curve Segments, Jörg Peters Sep 1994

Interpolation Regions For Convex Low Degree Polynomial Curve Segments, Jörg Peters

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Electronic Ballast Compact Fluorescent Lighting On Power Distribution Systems, Reid Iwao Sasaki Sep 1994

The Impact Of Electronic Ballast Compact Fluorescent Lighting On Power Distribution Systems, Reid Iwao Sasaki

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Due to the high costs of expanding generation and transmission capacities, utilities have been initiating programs to reduce peak power demand by the customer. A number of these programs, which are commonly referred to as demand side management programs, have turned to the promotion of electronic ballast compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) as an alternative to traditional incandescent lamps. These lamps provide a higher luminance and increased life as compared to their incandescent counterparts. Unfortunately, electronic ballast CFLs consume large amounts of harmonic current which may prove detrimental to the power distribution system. This thesis presents an introduction to the electronic …


Constraint-Based Parametric Conics For Cad, Ioannis Fudos, Christoph M. Hoffmann Sep 1994

Constraint-Based Parametric Conics For Cad, Ioannis Fudos, Christoph M. Hoffmann

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Science Pad: An Intelligent Electronic Notepad For Ubiquitous Scientific Computing, Anupam Joshi, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Tzvetan T. Drashansky, Elias N. Houstis Sep 1994

Science Pad: An Intelligent Electronic Notepad For Ubiquitous Scientific Computing, Anupam Joshi, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Tzvetan T. Drashansky, Elias N. Houstis

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Processing Pde Interface Conditions Ii, Tzvetan Drashansky, John R. Rice Sep 1994

Processing Pde Interface Conditions Ii, Tzvetan Drashansky, John R. Rice

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Path-Planning For A Mobile Robot Sweeper, Chandrajit Bajaj, Fausto Bernardini, Steve Cutchin, Kokichi Sugihara Sep 1994

Path-Planning For A Mobile Robot Sweeper, Chandrajit Bajaj, Fausto Bernardini, Steve Cutchin, Kokichi Sugihara

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Stability Criteria For Queueing Networks With A Monotonicity Property, Wojciech Szpankowski Aug 1994

Stability Criteria For Queueing Networks With A Monotonicity Property, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


C++ Class Libraries For Error Control Codes, Jamshid Nazari, Okan K. Ersoy Aug 1994

C++ Class Libraries For Error Control Codes, Jamshid Nazari, Okan K. Ersoy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

A tutorial on error control code is given and encoding and decoding using finite field transforms are outlined. Several C++ class libraries are then designed to implement some of the concepts in error control codes. A high level description of these libraries are given and several programs that. uses these libraries are presented. RS and BCH codes can be generated by these libraries from primitive polynomials where the user specifies the code size and number of errors to be corrected. Using these libraries power progra.ins in error control codes can be writtnen in less than few pages.


Problem Solving Environments For Partial Differential Equation Based Applications (Ph.D. Thesis), Sanjiva Weerawarana Aug 1994

Problem Solving Environments For Partial Differential Equation Based Applications (Ph.D. Thesis), Sanjiva Weerawarana

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.