The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss pedagogical frameworks and approaches to developing, delivering, and evaluating a new interdisciplinary course within the domain of energy informatics at both Master’s and PhD levels. This study is needed because many papers on sustainable energy engineering education concentrate on course content but provide very little information on the ...

Vortex is a new multiprocessor operating system kernel intended for emerging Internet service applications. The architecture is based on SEDA's staged computational model. Vortex provides mechanisms for performance isolation and dynamic adaptation. Performance results validate that the resource control mechanisms of Vortex are effective, and that Vortex significantly outperforms Linux on single-threaded ...

The Unified Parallel C (UPC) programming language offers parallelism via logically partitioned shared memory, which typically spans physically disjoint memory subsystems. One convenient feature of UPC is its ability to automatically execute between-thread data movement, such that the entire content of a shared data array appears to be freely accessible by all the threads. The programmer friendliness, ...

Pesto aims at providing highly available and secure storage for longlived data to mobile users roaming into untrusted environments. Security in Pesto encompasses the following three aspects: availability, safety, and privacy. A mechanism supporting one aspect may adversely affect another. For example, replication may increase availability but complicates supporting confidentiality, and simply ...

The developmental transition of juvenile salmon from a freshwater resident morph (parr) to a seawater (SW) migratory morph (smolt), known as smoltification, entails a reorganization of gill function to cope with the altered water environment. Recently, we used RNAseq to characterize the breadth of transcriptional change which takes place in the gill in the FW phase of smoltification. This highlighted ...

Solving electromagnetic inverse scattering problems (ISPs) is challenging due to the intrinsic nonlinearity, ill-posedness, and expensive computational cost. Recently, deep neural network (DNN) techniques have been successfully applied on ISPs and shown potential of superior imaging over conventional methods. In this paper, we discuss techniques for effective incorporation of important physical ...

Performance isolation is essential to operating systems shared by dependable services. Unfortunately, most such systems, including real-time operating systems and VMMs, only fairly divide and account for CPU cycles. We submit that dependable services require specifying and enforcing policies for all resources, and that current metrics for evaluating fair sharing are insufficient. This paper proposes ...

This deliverable reports the results of the power models, energy models and librariesfor energy-efficient concurrent data structures and algorithms as available by projectmonth 30 of Work Package 2 (WP2). It reports i) the latest results of Task 2.2-2.4 onproviding programming abstractions and libraries for developing energy-efficient datastructures and algorithms and ii) the improved results of ...

Increased levels of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) indicate favorable outcomes in many types of cancer. The manual quantification of immune cells is inaccurate and time-consuming for pathologists. Our aim is to leverage a computational solution to automatically quantify TILs in standard diagnostic hematoxylin and eosin-stained sections (H&E slides) from lung cancer patients. Our approach ...

<i>Objective</i> - In this exploratory work we investigate whether blood gene expression measurements predict breast cancer metastasis. Early detection of increased metastatic risk could potentially be life-saving. Our data comes from the Norwegian Women and Cancer epidemiological cohort study. The women who contributed to these data provided a blood sample up to a year before receiving a breast ...