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CORR
2007
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Solving the Hamiltonian path problem with a light-based computer
Abstract. In this paper we suggest the use of light for performing useful computations. Namely, we propose a special computational device which uses light rays for solving the Hami...
Mihai Oltean
ISSEP
2005
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
The Transition from School to University: Would Prior Study of Computing Help?
Abstract. We investigate issues in the preparation of students for undergraduate study. Specifically, we focus upon the question of whether computer science students would be bett...
Martyn Clark, Roger D. Boyle
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
A distributed file system for a wide-area high performance computing infrastructure
We describe our work in implementing a wide-area distributed file system for the NSF TeraGrid. The system, called XUFS, allows private distributed name spaces to be created for tr...
Edward Walker
CORR
2008
Springer
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Fast computation of the median by successive binning
In many important problems, one uses the median instead of the mean to estimate a population's center, since the former is more robust. But in general, computing the median i...
Ryan J. Tibshirani
CORR
2007
Springer
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A Mobile Computing Architecture for Numerical Simulation
The domain of numerical simulation is a place where the parallelization of numerical code is common. The definition of a numerical context means the configuration of resources suc...
Cyril Dumont, Fabrice Mourlin