Andere Orte, andere Körper : zum Verhältnis von Affekt, Heterotopie und Techno im Berghain

The text deals with a Berlin techno club called Berghain. It tries to define the place — using Foucaults concept of heterotopia — as a space that is located simultaniousely within the boundaries of society and on its outside. Within its walls the rules of aesthetic perception and construction of identity follow different mechanisms compared to the ones in everyday life, the latter being embedded into capitalist modes of production and consumption. Using Deleuze and Guattaris notion of affect the text tries to conceptualize the human body and techno music as constructs following the same principles of formation, leaving Berghain as a complex rhizomatic structure that, if regarded as a tool, offers possibilities of critiquing capitalist structures

Aspects of marine fouling in western Cape waters

Bibliography: pages 169-178.Two independent investigations into aspects of marine fouling were conducted in Simonsbay and Table Bay during 1979 to 1981. The development of macrofouling communities on six test materials was examined at 10m and 20m depths in Simonsbay for periods ranging from one month to one year. Community development was similar on inert non-reactive materials, aluminium, stainless steel, fibre glass and polyvinylchloride, but was reduced on non-wettable silicon rubber and corrodible mild steel. Macrofouling was characterized by seasonal succession with minimum colonization rates during winter, when adverse weather and low temperature conditions prevailed. The nature of fouling differed with depth. At 10m depth, mussel and barnacle-dominated communities developed rapidly, while at 20m depth, ascidian and barnacle-dominated communities developed more slowly. The role of primary film formation in the colonization of substrata by invertebrates was investigated in short-term studies conducted in Simonsbay and Table Bay. Surface-bound antibiotics, streptomycin and penicillin, were used to inhibit bacterial proliferation, while a herbicide, diuron, was employed to prevent diatom growth. The colonization by invertebrates was monitored on these surfaces and compared to surfaces where primary film development was normal, or where it was advanced by pre-culturing in laboratory seawater. It was found that invertebrates attached soon after panel exposure and that differences in the degree of primary film development were of little consequence to their settlement. The apparent discrepancy of these observations with previous findings is discussed, with special reference to the location of test sites in relation to mature communities

Performance Optimization for the Trinity RNA-Seq Assembler

Presented at 9th Parallel Tools Workshop, September 2-3, 2015 in Dresden, GermanyUtilizing the enormous computing resources of high performance computing systems is anything but a trivial task. Performance analysis tools are designed to assist developers in this challenging task by helping to understand the application behavior and identify critical performance issues. In this paper we share our efforts and experiences in analyzing and optimizing Trinity, a well-established framework for the de novo reconstruction of transcriptomes from RNA-seq reads. Thereby, we try to reflect all aspects of the ongoing performance engineering: the identification of optimization targets, the code improvements resulting in 20% overall runtime reduction, as well as the challenges we encountered getting there

White Paper: Lustre WAN over 100Gbps

This work is an international collaboration with Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany (RWTH) and the Center of Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany to analyze the effect of a high-bandwidth high-latency link on the I/O patterns of scientific applications using the 100Gbps transatlantic link.NSF Grant: America Connects to Europe (ACE) (Award #0962973

Report about the collaboration between UITS/Research Technologies at Indiana University and the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (2011-2012)

This report lists the activities and outcomes for July 2011-June 2012 of the collaboration between Research Technologies, a division of University Information Technology Services at Indiana University (IU), and the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at Technische Universität Dresden.This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0910812 to Indiana University for "FutureGrid: An Experimental, High-Performance Grid Test-bed." Partners in the FutureGrid project include San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Southern California, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Texas at Austin, Purdue University, University of Virginia, and T-U Dresden. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF

Use of IU parallel computing resources and high performance file systems July 2013 to Dec 2014

The paper discusses the contributions of Big Red II and Data Capacitor II and their impact on IU's research and creative output

Report about the collaboration between UITS/Research Technologies at Indiana University and the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

This report lists the activities and outcomes of the collaboration between Research Technologies, a division of University Information Technology Services at Indiana University (IU), and the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at Technische Universität Dresden.This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0910812 to Indiana University for "FutureGrid: An Experimental, High-Performance Grid Test-bed." Partners in the FutureGrid project include San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Southern California, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Texas at Austin, Purdue University, University of Virginia, and T-U Dresden. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF

Use of IU parallel computing resources and high performance file systems - July 2013 to Dec 2014

This report details use of IU's parallel computing resources and high performance file systems from July 2013 through December 2014

Technical Report: Benchmarking an HP DL580 cluster at Indiana University (Mason)

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies that supported this work.Detailed system description and benchmark performance of Mason, an HP DL580 system installed in 2011