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Chiminey: Reliable Computing and Data Management Platform in the Cloud
The enabling of scientific experiments that are embarrassingly parallel, long
running and data-intensive into a cloud-based execution environment is a
desirable, though complex undertaking for many researchers. The management of
such virtual environments is cumbersome and not necessarily within the core
skill set for scientists and engineers. We present here Chiminey, a software
platform that enables researchers to (i) run applications on both traditional
high-performance computing and cloud-based computing infrastructures, (ii)
handle failure during execution, (iii) curate and visualise execution outputs,
(iv) share such data with collaborators or the public, and (v) search for
publicly available data.Comment: Preprint, ICSE 201
Fast computing of scattering maps of nanostructures using graphical processing units
Scattering maps from strained or disordered nano-structures around a Bragg
reflection can either be computed quickly using approximations and a (Fast)
Fourier transform, or using individual atomic positions. In this article we
show that it is possible to compute up to 4.10^10 $reflections.atoms/s using a
single graphic card, and we evaluate how this speed depends on number of atoms
and points in reciprocal space. An open-source software library (PyNX) allowing
easy scattering computations (including grazing incidence conditions) in the
Python language is described, with examples of scattering from non-ideal
nanostructures.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
A remark on the trace-map for the Silver mean sequence
In this work we study the Silver mean sequence based on substitution rules by
means of a transfer-matrix approach. Using transfer-matrix method we find a
recurrence relation for the traces of general transfer-matrices which
characterizes electronic properties of the quasicrystal in question. We also
find an invariant of the trace-map.Comment: 5 pages, minor improvements in style and presentation of calculation
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