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Conjugate gradient solvers on Intel Xeon Phi and NVIDIA GPUs
Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics simulations typically spend most of the
runtime in inversions of the Fermion Matrix. This part is therefore frequently
optimized for various HPC architectures. Here we compare the performance of the
Intel Xeon Phi to current Kepler-based NVIDIA Tesla GPUs running a conjugate
gradient solver. By exposing more parallelism to the accelerator through
inverting multiple vectors at the same time, we obtain a performance greater
than 300 GFlop/s on both architectures. This more than doubles the performance
of the inversions. We also give a short overview of the Knights Corner
architecture, discuss some details of the implementation and the effort
required to obtain the achieved performance.Comment: 7 pages, proceedings, presented at 'GPU Computing in High Energy
Physics', September 10-12, 2014, Pisa, Ital
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Persönlichkeit, politische Involvierung und politische Partizipation in Deutschland und Österreich
This article investigates how the so-called Big Five indirectly affect involvement in electoral and non-electoral modes of participation by looking at political knowledge and interest as well as internal efficacy. The analyses rely on data collected by the Austrian (AUTNES) and the German Election Studies (GLES) using path models. Thus, they allow comparison of personality effects in Germany and Austria. Our results show that extraversion and openness to experience are central preconditions of political participation, which have an indirect effect mediated by political involvement. In addition, variation in the causal patterns across the two countries suggests that context matters
Noble internal transport barriers and radial subdiffusion of toroidal magnetic lines
Single trajectories of magnetic line motion indicate the persistence of a
central protected plasma core, surrounded by a chaotic shell enclosed in a
double-sided transport barrier : the latter is identified as being composed of
two Cantori located on two successive "most-noble" numbers values of the
perturbed safety factor, and forming an internal transport barrier (ITB).
Magnetic lines which succeed to escape across this barrier begin to wander in a
wide chaotic sea extending up to a very robust barrier (as long as L<1) which
is identified mathematically as a robust KAM surface at the plasma edge. In
this case the motion is shown to be intermittent, with long stages of
pseudo-trapping in the chaotic shell, or of sticking around island remnants, as
expected for a continuous time random walk.Comment: TEX file, 84 pages including 32 color figures. Higher quality figures
can be seen on the PDF file at
http://membres.lycos.fr/fusionbfr/JHM/Tokamap/JSP.pd
Meeting Certification Requirements for Teacher Certification through the Basic Course
This article explains how one institution of higher education designed their basic course to include communication proficiency for teachers as an integral part of the course. Features of the course include the following standardized assessments: a 60-question multiple-choice exam to assess cognitive proficiency; a one-on-one interpersonal encounter to assess interpersonal proficiency; a speech to inform to assess public speaking proficiency; and the use of the Steinbrecher-Willmington Listening Test to assess listening
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