Maggie Orth Mit, Maggie Orth · 1998
This paper presents a series of physical computer interfaces and computational devices that are constructed from electronic fabrics and conducting threads. We introduce two types of textile keyboards, a piecework switch matrix and a capacitive embroidered keypad. We discuss these fabric sensors in a variety of applications. We give examples of computational clothing using this technology. This clothing shows how digital technology can be imbedded into the world around us. We argue that creating computational devices with new and unexpected materials gives designers the creative freedom to radically change the appearance and "feeling" of such devices.
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Christophe Czeslaw Wolinski · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2023
Fabric-based computing systems and methods are disclosed. A fabric-based computing system can include a polymorphous computing fabric that can be customized on a per application basis and a host processor in communication with said polymorphous computing fabric. The polymorphous computing fabric includes a cellular architecture that can be highly parameterized to enable a customized synthesis of fabric instances for a variety of enhanced application performances thereof. A global memory concept can also be included that provides the host processor random access to all variables and instructions associated with the polymorphous computing fabric.
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Christophe Wolinski, Maya Gokhale, Kevin McCabe · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 2002
This paper introduces a new polymorphous computing Fabric well suited to DSP and Image Processing and describes its implementation on a Configurable System on a Chip (CSOC). The architecture is highly parameterized and enables customization of the synthesized Fabric to achieve high performance for a specific class of application. For this reason it can be considered to be a generic model for hardware accelerator synthesis from a high level specification. Another important innovation is the Fabric uses a global memory concept, which gives the host processor random access to all the variables and instructions on the Fabric. The Fabric supports different computing models including MIMD, SPMD and systolic flow and permits dynamic reconfiguration. We present a specific implementation of a bank of FIR filters on a Fabric composed of 52 cells on the Altera Excalibur ARM running at 33 MHz. The theoretical performance of this Fabric is 1.8 GMACh. For the FIR application we obtain 1.6 GMAC/s real performance. Some automatic tools have been developed like the tool to provide a host access utility and assembler.
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Michael N. Huhns, L.M. Stephens, J. W. Keele et al. · IEEE Internet Computing · 2002
As sources of information relevant to a particular domain proliferate, we need a methodology for locating, aggregating, relating, fusing, reconciling, and presenting information to users. Interoperability thus must occur not only among the information, but also among the different software applications that process it. Given the large number of potential sources and applications, interoperability becomes an extremely large problem for which manual solutions are impractical. A combination of software agents and ontologies can supply the necessary methodology for interoperability.
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Hill, Frank Hylan, 1902- · The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
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F. H. Hill · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1929
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Sampath Boopathi · Advances in systems analysis, software engineering, and high performance computing book series · 2024
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving landscape of serverless computing, focusing on the technologies and tools that shape its ecosystem. Starting with an introduction to serverless architecture, the chapter delves into the benefits and challenges of adopting serverless computing. It explores key technologies such as function-as-a-service (FaaS), backend-as-a-service (BaaS), and event-driven architecture, highlighting their roles in enabling scalable and cost-effective solutions. Additionally, the chapter discusses popular tools and platforms used for developing, deploying, and managing serverless applications. Through this exploration, readers gain insights into the latest trends, best practices, and considerations for leveraging serverless computing effectively in modern IT environments.
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Min Chen, Jia Liu, Pan Li et al. · The Innovation · 2022
With the advent of the Internet of Everything, people can easily interact with their environments immersively. The idea of pervasive computing is becoming a reality, but due to the inconvenience of carrying silicon-based entities and a lack of fine-grained sensing capabilities for human-computer interaction, it is difficult to ensure comfort, esthetics, and privacy in smart spaces. Motivated by the rapid developments in intelligent fabric technology in the post-Moore era, we propose a novel computing approach that creates a paradigm shift driven by fabric computing and advocate a new concept of non-chip sensing in living spaces. We discuss the core notion and benefits of fabric computing, including its implementation, challenges, and future research opportunities.
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Sixto Ortiz · Computer · 2008
Fabric computing combines powerful server capabilities and advanced networking into a single fabric that creates reconfigurable, scalable pools of interconnected computing, network, communications, and storage resources.
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Pinto, Mariana Isabel da Rocha · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2023
This thesis delves into the concept of a "Computing Continuum for a Federated Network Fabric" and embarks on an exploration of its pivotal role in bridging the digital divide that often partitions distinct computational environments. It delves deeply into the integration of edge, cloud and data center computing resources, offering a perspective on how these elements can coexist and collaborate harmoniously. The primary objectives of this research revolve around evaluating the potential of federated network fabrics to optimize resource allocation, enhance data management, and elevate overall system efficiency. Furthermore, the study delves into the possibilities of federated network fabrics enabling dynamic workload distribution and orchestration within heterogeneous computing environments. Through analysis and illustrative case studies, this thesis aspires to elucidate the advantages and challenges linked to the Computing Continuum for a Federated Network Fabric. By addressing pivotal concerns pertaining to scalability, security, and interoperability, it furnishes invaluable insights into the future of networked computing, with a focal point on attaining a unified, efficient, and all-encompassing digital landscape.
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Krishna V. Palem · Lecture notes in computer science · 1999
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Naai‐Jung Shih, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Yi Chen et al. · EPiC series in computing · 2020
Traditional computer simulation is replaced by 3D scans of the temporary urban fabric in a Taiwan heritage site for the quantitative assessment of local evolvement. The transfer of as-built point cloud model to the vertical and horizontal sections enables the inspections of evolved openness types on an old street enclosed by building facades and remodeled building components. Temporary fabrics, which consist of the installations and components, are represented in terms of the modification ratio on facade. The ratio contributes to the balance between the maintenance of cultural identity and the development of supporting commercial facilities made by local efforts. The variation changes along the old street cross districts of preservation, commercial and residential areas. Result shows the highest ratio exist in commercial district, where the highest ground activity along the entire street has created a typology of T or enclosed section of open space, as shown in point cloud model which is so realistic that no former computer models can display.
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Mehta, Gayatri · D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) · 2009
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) mitigate many of the problemsencountered with the development of ASICs by offering flexibility, faster time-to-market, and amortized NRE costs, among other benefits. While FPGAs are increasingly being used for complex computational applications such as signal and image processing, networking, and cryptology, they are far from ideal for these tasks due to relatively high power consumption and silicon usage overheads compared to direct ASIC implementation. A reconfigurable device that exhibits ASIC-like power characteristics and FPGA-like costs and tool support is desirable to fill this void. In this research, a parameterized, reconfigurable fabric model named as domain specific fabric (DSF) is developed that exhibits ASIC-like power characteristics for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) style applications. Using this model, the impact of varying different design parameters on power and performance has been studied. Different optimization techniques like local search and simulated annealing are used to determine the appropriate interconnect for a specific set of applications. A design space exploration tool has been developed to automate and generate a tailored architectural instance of the fabric.The fabric has been synthesized on 160 nm cell-based ASIC fabrication process from OKI and 130 nm from IBM. A detailed power-performance analysis has been completed using signal and image processing benchmarks from the MediaBench benchmark suite and elsewhere with comparisons to other hardware and software implementations. The optimized fabric implemented using the 130 nm process yields energy within 3X of a direct ASIC implementation, 330X better than a Virtex-II Pro FPGA and 2016X better than an Intel XScale processor.
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Anupam Rajendran, Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu · 2013
Efficiently scheduling large number of jobs over large-scale distributed systems is critical in achieving high system utilization and throughput. Most of current job management systems (JMS) have centralized Master/Slaves architecture that has inherent limitations, such as scalability issues at extreme scales (e.g. petascales and beyond), and single point of failure. In designing the next generation distributed JMS, we must address new challenges such as load balancing. This paper presents MATRIX, a many-task computing execution fabric at exascale. MATRIX utilizes adaptive work stealing algorithm for distributed load balancing, and distributed hash tables for managing task metadata. MATRIX supports many-task computing (MTC) workloads with or without task dependencies in the execution of complex largescale workflows. MATRIX has shown throughput as high as 54.4K tasks/sec at 4K-core scales running on an IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer with sub-second sleep tasks (64ms).
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Hisakazu Hada, Ayaka Osaga · The Journal of the Society for Art and Science · 2018
日常生活のなかに溶け込みやすいウェアラブルコンピューティングの技術として衣服や鞄といった布製品と電子機器の融合が行われている．このようなウェアラブルコンピューティング環境において衣服が古来より持っている機能をコンピュータの力をもって拡張することを目標として，衣服のパーツであるファスナーに着目した．ファスナーを用いた布製品の操作をコンピュータの入力に用いることにより，コンピュータを意識しない日常的な振る舞いをコンピュータへの入力として利用することが出来る．本論文では布製品を用いたコンピューティングにおいて自然な動作による継続的なアナログ入力を可能にする手法として，線ファスナーを入力装置として用いる手法を提案し，実装を行った．ファスナーのごく近傍にミシンを用いて導電糸を縫い付け，スライダーに加工を行うことで，ファスナーそのものの形状を変化させることなくファスナーの移動量を抵抗値として取り出すことが出来る．スライダーと同様の操作を実際の布の上で実現することによりウェアラブルコンピューティングにおける新しいインターフェースとして利用できる．
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Charles L. Cathey, Jason D. Bakos, Duncan A. Buell · 2006
This paper presents a novel reconfigurable data flow processing architecture that promises high performance by explicitly targeting both fine- and course-grained parallelism. This architecture is based on multiple FPGAs organized in a scalable direct network that is substantially more interconnect-efficient than currently used crossbar technology. In addition, we discuss several ancillary issues and propose solutions required to support this architecture and achieve maximal performance for general-purpose applications; these include supporting IP, mapping techniques, and routing policies that enable greater flexibility for architectural evolution and code portability
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Zheng Cao, Xiaoli Liu, Qiang Li et al. · Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2014
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Michael N. Huhns, John W. Keele, Jim E. Wray et al. · 2008
Agents — in the form of elves, sprites, avatars, jinis, and genome agents — are forming the new fabric for our computing infrastructure. Working behind the scenes, they are automating mundane tasks to free people for more interesting and creative endeavors. Because they are easy for people to use, agents perform this role well. People work best with things that seem familiar. Software components are typically not familiar, but if the components resemble assistants, aides, helpers, or colleagues, users will feel more in control and be more productive. Agents seem to be the right size as well — larger than methods, which are often too numerous to find and use, but smaller than major applications, which are often too complex to be completely understood. (Does anyone understand all the features in MS Excel?) Agents also enable scalability. An agent-based system can cope with a growing application domain by increasing the number of agents, each agent’s capability, or the computational resources available to each agent. Given their flexibility and all-around suitability for this broad range of tasks, it is not surprising to see the variety of agent-based infrastructures on the landscape.
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Jason I. Hong · 2002
Despite many sensor, hardware, networking, and software advances, it is still quite difficult to build effective and reliable context-aware applications. We propose to build a context infrastructure that provides three things to simplify the task of building context-aware applications: a context data store for modeling, storing, and distributing context data; a context specification language for declaratively stating and processing context needs; and protection mechanisms for safeguarding privacy needs.
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Anupam Rajendran · 2013
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