The Impact of Urbanisation and the Changing Environment of the Malay Settlement

It is acknowledged that “architecture is about people, culture, and land. However, the development of urban areas has raised many questions about the urban dream and the notion that it is “paved with gold.” The methodology of the study employs mixed method approach. According to the research, urban development is accelerating exponentially, and urban sprawl has occurred unpredictably, encroaching on traditional settlements. The new development on the outskirts of the old settlement is geared toward middle-income groups and is unattainable for the locals. Although the housing programme has been in place since 1968, it does not demonstrate the government’s total commitment and participation in assisting the Kelantanese urban population. eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under the responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Adaptive Performance Modeling on Hierarchical Grid Computing Environments

8 pagesInternational audienceIn the past, efficient parallel algorithms have always been developed specifically for the successive generations of parallel systems (vector machines, shared-memory machines, distributed-memory machines, etc.). Today, due to many reasons, such as the inherent heterogeneity, the diversity, and the continuous evolution of the existing parallel execution supports, it is very hard to solve efficiently a target problem by using a single algorithm or to write portable programs that perform well on any computational supports. Toward this goal, we propose a generic framework based on communication models and adaptive approaches in order to adaptively model performances on grid computing environments. We apply this methodology on collective communication operations and show, by achieving experiments on a real platform, that the framework provides significant performances while determining the best combination model-algorithm depending on the problem and architecture parameters

The Malay Settlement: A vanishing world?

Questions have been raised regarding urbanisation, in which the Malay culture is forgotten. This paper uses a mixed-method by way of a case study on the eight Malay settlements in Kota Bharu. Three hundred fifty questionnaires were distributed, while random interviews provided a more precise explanation of the Malay community in the real world. Traditionally, this settlement is inhabited by Malays and is well known for its high culture and architectural values. This study found that urbanisation has critically influenced the culture and identity of Malay communities in their settlements. The loss of the Malay settlements in Kota Bharu led to the loss of the Malay culture and identity in the community. Keywords:  Malay community, Malay settlement, Malay culture, urbanisation eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i20.296

The Impact of Urbanisation and the Changing Environment of the Malay Settlement

It is acknowledged that “architecture is about people, culture, and land. However, the development of urban areas has raised many questions about the urban dream and the notion that it is “paved with gold.” The methodology of the study employs a mixed-method approach. According to the research, urban development is accelerating exponentially, and urban sprawl has occurred unpredictably, encroaching on traditional settlements. The new development on the outskirts of the old settlement is geared toward middle-income groups and is unattainable for the locals. Although the housing programme has been in place since 1968, it does not demonstrate the government’s total commitment and participation in assisting the Kelantanese urban populatio

On the use of performance models for adaptive algorithm selection on heterogeneous clusters

International audienceDue to the increasing diversity and the continuous evolution of existing parallel systems, solving efficiently a target problem by using a single algorithm or writing efficient and portable programs is becoming a challenging task. In this paper, we present a generic framework that integrates performance models with adaptive techniques in order to design efficient parallel algorithms in heterogeneous computing environments. To illustrate our approach, we study the matrix multiplication problem, where we compare different parallel algorithms. Experiments demonstrate that accurate performance predictions obtained from analytical performance models allow us to select the most appropriate algorithm to use depending on the problem and the platform parameters

Adaptive Performance Modeling on Hierarchical Grid Computing Environments

8 pagesInternational audienceIn the past, efficient parallel algorithms have always been developed specifically for the successive generations of parallel systems (vector machines, shared-memory machines, distributed-memory machines, etc.). Today, due to many reasons, such as the inherent heterogeneity, the diversity, and the continuous evolution of the existing parallel execution supports, it is very hard to solve efficiently a target problem by using a single algorithm or to write portable programs that perform well on any computational supports. Toward this goal, we propose a generic framework based on communication models and adaptive approaches in order to adaptively model performances on grid computing environments. We apply this methodology on collective communication operations and show, by achieving experiments on a real platform, that the framework provides significant performances while determining the best combination model-algorithm depending on the problem and architecture parameters

On the Evaluation of OpenMP Memory Access in Multi-core Architectures

International audienceOpenMP has gained wide popularity as an API for parallel programming on shared memory and distributed shared memory platforms. It is also a promising candidate to exploit the emerging multi-core, multi-threaded processors. In addition, there is an increasing trend to port OpenMP to more specific architectures like General Purpose Graphic Processor Units (GPGPUs). However, these ccNUMA (cache coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access) architectures may present several hierarchical memory levels, which represent a serious performance issue for OpenMP applications. In this work, we present the initial results from our effort to quantify and model the impact of memory access heterogeneity on the performance of the applications. Using a simplified performance model, we show how to identify a "performance signature" for a given platform, which allows us to predict the performance of sam- ple applications

Integrating performance models and adaptive approaches for efficient parallel algorithms

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