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Investigating grid computing technologies for use with commercial simulation packages
As simulation experimentation in industry become more computationally demanding, grid computing can be seen as a promising technology that has the potential to bind together the computational resources needed to quickly execute such simulations. To investigate how this might be possible, this paper reviews the grid technologies that can be used together with commercial-off-the-shelf simulation packages (CSPs) used in industry. The paper identifies two specific forms of grid computing (Public Resource Computing and Enterprise-wide Desktop Grid Computing) and the middleware associated with them (BOINC and Condor) as being suitable for grid-enabling existing CSPs. It further proposes three different CSP-grid integration approaches and identifies one of them to be the most appropriate. It is hoped that this research will encourage simulation practitioners to consider grid computing as a technologically viable means of executing CSP-based experiments faster
The state of the responsible research and innovation programme: A case for its application in additive manufacturing
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Many of the ethical issues of additive manufacturing (AM) are not well known or understood,
and there remains a policy vacuum that needs to be addressed. This paper aims to describe an approach that
has been applied successfully to other emerging technologies, referred to as the responsible research and
innovation (RRI) framework programme. A case is then made for the application of this approach in the AM
industry with an illustration of how it might be used
The Desktop Muon Detector: A simple, physics-motivated machine- and electronics-shop project for university students
This paper describes an undergraduate-level physics project that incorporates
various aspects of machine- and electronics-shop technical development. The
desktop muon detector is a self-contained apparatus that employs plastic
scintillator as a detection medium and a silicon photomultiplier for light
collection. These detectors can be used in conjunction with the provided
software to make interesting physics measurements. The total cost of each
counter is approximately $100.Comment: 29 pages, 14 figure
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