The Cylinder Seals of Late Bronze Age Palestine as Indicators of Hurrian Influence

This thesis consists of five basic units: a general history of the cylinder seal, a discussion of the seals on an artistic level, a general history of Palestine at the time the seals were being made, and Late Bronze Age cylinder seals as indicators of cultural influence. There are four appendices which include typology, a catalogue of cylinder seals, a glossary and plates

Lanthorn, vol. 11, no. 19, February 1, 1979

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State\u27s student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present

Specification Based Bug Detection for Embedded Software

Traditional compilers do not automatically analyze processor specifications, thousands of pages of which are available for modern processors. The specifications describe constraints and requirements for processors, and therefore, are useful for software development for these processors. To bridge this gap, our tool em-SPADE analyzes processor specifications and creates processor-specific rules to detect low-level programming errors. This work shows the potential of automatically analyzing processor specifications to detect low-level programming errors at compile time. em-SPADE is a compiler extension to automatically detect software bugs in low-level programs. From processor specifications, em-SPADE preprocessor extracts target-specific rules such as register use and read-only or reserved registers. A special LLVM pass in em-SPADE then uses these rules to detect incorrect register assignments. Our experiments with em-SPADE have correctly extracted 652 rules from 15 specifications and consequently found 20 bugs in ten software projects. In addition, we explore the use of data mining techniques to learn more about the nature and type of complex checkable rules other than access and reserved bit rules. After applying the frequent itemset mining technique on three specifications, we found that the mining can report complex checkable rules from the specifications with a precision of 53.53% to 82.22% and recall of 36.88% to 75.18%. Thus, the data mining approach is useful for learning complex type of rules in large specifications. These techniques help us identify complex rules. In addition, insights gained from the mining results can be used to improve and standardize specifications. The work is generalizable to other types of specifications and shows the clear prospects of using processor specifications to enhance compilers

Dynamic load balancing via thread migration

Light-weight threads are becoming increasingly useful for parallel processing. This is particularly true for threads running in a distributed memory environment. Light-weight threads can be used to support latency hiding techniques, communication and computation overlap, and functional parallelism. Additionally, dynamic migration of light-weight threads supports both data locality and load balancing. Designing a thread migration mechanism presents some very unique and interesting challenges. One such challenge is maintaining communication between mobile threads. A potentially more difficult challenge involves maintaining the correctness of pointers within mobile threads. Since traditional pointers have no concept of address space, moving threads from processor to processor has a strong impact on the use of pointers. Options for dealing with pointers include restricting their use, adding a layer of software to support pointers referencing non-local data, and binding data to threads such that referenced data is always local to the thread. This dissertation presents the design and implementation of Chant, an efficient light-weight threads package which runs in a distributed memory environment. Chant was designed and implemented as a runtime system using MPI like and Pthreads like calls. Chant supports point-to-point message passing between threads executing in distributed address spaces. We focus on the use of Chant as a framework to support dynamic load balancing based on thread migration. We explore many of the issues which arise when designing and implementing a thread migration mechanism, as well as the issues which arise when considering the use of thread migration as a means for performing dynamic load balancing. This load balancing framework uses both system state information, including communication history, and user input. One of the basic functionalities of this load balancing framework is the ability of the user to customize the load balancing to fit particular classes of problems. This dissertation provides implementation details as well as discussion and justification of design choices. We go on to show that the overhead associated with our approach is within an acceptable range, and that significant performance gains can be achieved through the use of thread migration as a means of performing dynamic load balancing

Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 13 - November 16, 1978

The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/archives-mirror/1027/thumbnail.jp

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 62, April 20, 2006

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National-Louis University Undergraduate Catalog, 1994-96

Undergraduate course catalog for the 1994-96 school year. Contains campus information, as well as program information and course descriptions.https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/coursecatalogs/1033/thumbnail.jp

Astronomical electronographic photometry

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