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Tending our fields: hiring and retaining faculty in small colleges computing programs (panel session)
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Accomplishing More by Doing Less - Lessons from Spanish Language Instruction
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Cluster and Grid Based Classification of Transposable Elements in Eukaryotic Genomes
In the last few years many computer and laboratory improvements in the production and analysis of DNA sequences have made possible the complete sequencing of whole genomes. This provides a wealth of raw genomes that needs to be processed and annotated. All eukaryotic genomes examined and published thus far contain repetitive DNA. The amount of repetitive DNA in any specific eukaryotic genome ranges from 5% to 80%. These repeats consist mainly of transposable elements and tandem repeats which need to be identified, classified and annotated in order to sequence and annotate an entire genome. This paper discusses the design and implementation of a distributed cluster and grid based workflow to classify transposable elements. We show experimental results for representative species genomes on a cluster and grid. The performance and results of the workflow with regard to turnaround time, scalability, load balancing, resource utilization and fault tolerance are shown and discussed
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Itinerant Agents for Mobile Computing
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Practical Grid Computing for Massively Multiplayer Games
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Performance Testing of a Parallel Multiblock CFD Solver
A distributed-memory version of the OVERFLOW computational fluid dynamics code was evaluated on several parallel systems and compared with other approaches using test cases provided by the NASA-Boeing High-Speed Civil Transport program. A principal goal was to develop partitioning and load-balancing strategies that led to a reduction in computation time. We found multipartitioning, in which the aspect ratio of the multipartition is close to the aspect ratio of the grid zone, offered the best performance. The (uniprocessor) performance of the CRAY vector systems was superior to all other systems tested. However, the distributed-memory version when run on an SGI Origin system offers a price performance advantage over the CRAY vector systems.Performance on personal computer systems is promising but faces several hurdles.
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A Multimedia Application using Mobile Agents for Establishing and Managing Streaming Audio Communications
Objective To be a part of an academic institution which has a strong and dedicated commitment to quality education and research.  Built a new UNIX Sun workstation network lab for the CS department. The lab is used for courses, mail and web service.