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Performance Analysis of the Multi-pass Transformation for Complex 3D-Stencils on GPUs
Artículo presentado al Congreso Español de Informática 2013Performance Analysis of the Multi-pass Transformation for Complex 3D-Stencils on GPU
Siting Multiple Observers for Maximum Coverage: An Accurate Approach
The selection of the minimal number of observers that ensures the maximum visual coverage
over an area represented by a digital elevation model (DEM) have great interest in many
elds, e.g., telecommunications, environment planning, among others. However, this problem
is complex and intractable when the number of points of the DEM is relatively high. This
complexity is due to three issues: 1) the di culty in determining the visibility of the terrain
from one point, 2) the need to know the visibility at all points of the terrain and 3) the
combinatorial complexity of the selection of observers.
The recent progress in total-viewshed maps computation not only provides an e cient solu-
tion to the rst two problems, but also opens other ways to new solutions that were unthinkable
previously. This paper presents a new type of cartography, called the masked total viewshed
map, and provides optimal solutions for both sequential and simultaneous observers location.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
16 Cards to Get Into Computer Organization
This paper presents a novel educative activity for teaching computer architecture fundamentals. This activity is actually a game that uses 16 cards and involves about twenty active participant students. Executing this activity in the fi rst class of the course allows the studentin only 45 minutes to acquire the fundamental concepts of computer organization. The results of the surveys that evaluate the proposed activity
together with the grades obtained by the students at the end of course corroborate the importance of the proposed game in the assimilation of more complex concepts in computer architecture.Universidad de Granada: Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores; Vicerrectorado para la Garantía de la Calidad
Gamma Ray Bursts with peculiar temporal asymmetry
Based on the study of temporal asymmetry of 631 gamma ray bursts from the
BATSE 3B catalog by Link and Epstein [Ap J 466, 764 (1996)], we identify the
population of bursts whose rising times are longer than their decays, thus
showing atypical profiles. We analyse their sky distribution, morphology,
time-space clustering and other average properties and compare them with those
associated with the bulk of the bursts. We show how most of the peculiar bursts
analysed are consistent with recent fireball models, but a fraction of bursts
(% of the total sample) appear to be inconsistent.Comment: mn style (included in the submission), 4 figures that must be printed
separately. Submitted to Monthly Notices of RA
Diffusion in a class of exactly solvable non-harmonic potentials. Intrinsic effects induced by non-linearities
This paper deals with the problem of a particle that diffuses in a potential with a reflecting barrier and has a point of stable equilibrium and a point of unstable equilibrium. Based on the exact solutions obtained earlier for the Fokker-Planck equation of a class of these models, we analyze the behavior of the probability density, the mean path and the onset time which determines the transition from unimodal to bimodal probability densities. The study is made over different initial positions, two of them very close to the unstable point, which permits a clear comparison among the subsequent evolutions, and the observation of some intrinsic effects induced by non-linearities
Intersection of crisis loci in a driven nonlinearly damped oscillator
We report on a phenomenon observed in a driven nonlinearly damped oscillator when two control parameters, the frequency of the external excitation and the nonlinear damping coefficient, are varied simultaneously. An interior crisis locus and a boundary crisis locus, corresponding to two different chaotic attractors, intersect in a point of the parameter space. There exists an interchange in the type of crisis that each attractor suffers after crossing the intersection point
Spiral waves solutions in reaction-diffusion equations with symmetries. Analysis through specific models
Symmetries of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations determine the existence of regular rotating spiral waves. They are only a consequence of kinetics processes and molecular diffusion. We prove the existence of these waves as invariant solutions of reaction-diffusion models with appropiate Lie point symmetries
Acelerando la comparación de huellas dactilares basadas en agrupaciones deformables de minucias
El reconocimiento de huellas dactilares
es considerado como uno de los m´etodos de acreditaci´on
biom´etrica m´as utilizado en la actualidad. La
identificaci´on de una huella requiere realizar la comparaci´on
de sus minucias con todas las minucias que
conforman cada huella perteneciente a una base de
datos. Los algoritmos de comparaci´on de huellas m´as
avanzados son muy costosos desde el punto de vista
computacional, e ineficientes cuando trabajan sobre
bases de datos de grandes dimensiones. En este trabajo,
se han incluido diversos m´etodos para acelerar el
algoritmo DMC (el m´etodo de comparaci´on de huellas
dactilares m´as preciso basado ´unicamente en minucias).
En particular, se han reescrito en C++ las funciones
del algoritmo con mayor carga computacional;
se ha creado una librer´ıa est´atica en C++ donde se ejecuta
el algoritmo de comparaci´on DMC modificado y
que se conecta con el c´odigo original en C# utilizando
para ello un proyecto de librer´ıa de clases de CLR. La
soluci´on reimplementa funciones cr´ıticas tales como la
cuenta del n´umero de bits con valor uno mediante la
inclusi´on de una librer´ıa de PopCount en C++ y el uso
del cuadrado de la distancia Eucl´ıdea para el c´alculo
de la vecindad de las minucias. Los resultados experimentales
muestran una reducci´on significativa del
tiempo de ejecuci´on de las funciones optimizadas dentro
del algoritmo DMC. Por ´ultimo, se presenta como
trabajo futuro una nueva estrategia de procesamiento
paralelo de los datos de las huellas, en la que se tiene
en cuenta la jerarqu´ıa de memoria.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
In search for natural wormholes
We have investigated 631 time profiles of gamma ray bursts from the BATSE
database searching for observable signatures produced by microlensing events
related to natural wormholes. The results of this first search of topologically
nontrivial objects in the Universe can be used to constrain their number and
mass.Comment: Mod. Phys. Lett. A. (in press) Latex (revtex style) with no figure
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