Altaica from Harrassowitz

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Virtual Runtime Application Partitions for Resource Management in Massively Parallel Architectures

This thesis presents a novel design paradigm, called Virtual Runtime Application Partitions (VRAP), to judiciously utilize the on-chip resources. As the dark silicon era approaches, where the power considerations will allow only a fraction chip to be powered on, judicious resource management will become a key consideration in future designs. Most of the works on resource management treat only the physical components (i.e. computation, communication, and memory blocks) as resources and manipulate the component to application mapping to optimize various parameters (e.g. energy efficiency). To further enhance the optimization potential, in addition to the physical resources we propose to manipulate abstract resources (i.e. voltage/frequency operating point, the fault-tolerance strength, the degree of parallelism, and the configuration architecture). The proposed framework (i.e. VRAP) encapsulates methods, algorithms, and hardware blocks to provide each application with the abstract resources tailored to its needs. To test the efficacy of this concept, we have developed three distinct self adaptive environments: (i) Private Operating Environment (POE), (ii) Private Reliability Environment (PRE), and (iii) Private Configuration Environment (PCE) that collectively ensure that each application meets its deadlines using minimal platform resources. In this work several novel architectural enhancements, algorithms and policies are presented to realize the virtual runtime application partitions efficiently. Considering the future design trends, we have chosen Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) and Network on Chips (NoCs) to test the feasibility of our approach. Specifically, we have chosen Dynamically Reconfigurable Resource Array (DRRA) and McNoC as the representative CGRA and NoC platforms. The proposed techniques are compared and evaluated using a variety of quantitative experiments. Synthesis and simulation results demonstrate VRAP significantly enhances the energy and power efficiency compared to state of the art.

Ympäristön tilan seurantaohjelma 2015

Ympäristön tilan seurannan tavoitteena on tuottaa tietoa ympäristön tilasta, sen muutoksista ja muutosten syistä. Seurannasta saatavia tietoja käytetään päätöksenteon sekä ympäristönsuojelutoimien kohdentamisen ja niiden tuloksellisuuden arvioinnin tukena. Tietoja hyödynnetään maankäytön suunnittelussa ja sen ohjauksessa sekä ympäristövaikutusten arvioinnissa. Seurantatietoja tarvitaan kansainvälisten sopimusten edellyttämiin selvityksiin ja niitä hyödynnetään tutkimuksissa. Hämeen ELY-keskuksen seurantaohjelma vuodelle 2015 perustuu ympäristöhallinnon seurantaohjelmaan vuosille 2014–2016. Se sisältää pintavesien ohella pohjavesien ja maaympäristön seurantaa. Osa seurannassa olevista vesistöistä on vaihtunut toisiin, sillä useimmista vesistöistä ei enää oteta näytteitä vuosittain, vaan muutaman vuoden välein. Lähes kaikkien vesistöjen seurannassa on mukana jokin biologisen seurannan osa (kasviplankton, vesikasvit, pohjaeläimet, kalat) vesienhoitolain ja -asetuksen (vesipuitedirektiivin) mukaisesti. Pohjavesien seuranta jatkuu kolmella pohjavesiasemalla ja hydrologinen seuranta sisältää mm. vesistöjen vedenkorkeuksien, virtaamien, lämpötilojen, jäänpaksuuden sekä lumipeitteen paksuuden, haihdunnan ja roudan seurantaa. Maaympäristön seurantaan kuuluu myös useita eri seurantahankkeita.

Juutalaiset sotilaat Saksan armeijassa ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Etsimässä ratkaisua modernin maailman ahdinkoon : eurooppalainen älymystö fasismin pyörteissä?

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Deutsch-russische Grenzlande / Geographische Anstalt von Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig.

1:2000000.

De persuasione

Invokaatio: D.D.

Trilling race : the political economy of racialised visual-aural encounters

This thesis investigates the matter of race in the context of Finnish language acquisition among adult migrants in Finland. Here matter denotes both the materiality of race and how race comes to matter. Drawing primarily on an auto/ethno/graphic account of learning the Finnish language as a participant in the Finnish for foreigners classes, this thesis problematises the ontology and epistemology of race, i.e., what race is, how it is known, and what an engagement with race entails. Taking cues from the bodily practices of learning the Finnish trill or the rolling r, this study proposes a notion of “trilling race” and argues for an onto-epistemological dis/continuity that marks race’s arrival. The notion of dis/continuity reworks the distinction between continuity and discontinuity, and asks about the how of the arrival of any identity, the where, and the when. In so doing, an analysis of “trilling race” engages with one of the major problematics that has exercised much critical attention, namely: how to read race differently. That is, to rethink the conundrum of the need to counter “representational weight” (Puar 2007, 191) of race on the one hand, and to account for the racialised lived realities on the other. The link between a study of the phenomenon of host country language acquisition and an examination of the question of race is not as obvious as it might seem. For example, what does the argument that the process of language learning is racialised actually imply? Does it mean that race, as a process of racialisation or an ongoing configuration of sets of power relations, exerts force from an outside on the otherwise neutral process of learning the host country language? Or does it mean that race, as an identity category, presents as among the analytical perspectives, along with gender and class for instance, of the phenomenon of host country language acquisition? With these questions in mind, and to foreground the examination of the question of race in the context of Finnish language acquisition among adult migrants, this thesis opens with a discussion of the art installation Finnexia by Lisa Erdman. Finnexia is a fictitious drug said to facilitate Finnish language learning through accelerating the cognitive learning process and reducing the anxiety of speaking the Finnish language. Not only does the Finnexia installation make visible the ways in which the lack of skill in Finnish is fgured as the threshold – a border that separates the inside from the outside – to integration, but also, and importantly, it raises questions about the nature of difference, and the process of differentiation that separates the individual from the social, fact from fiction, nature from culture. These puzzles animate much of the analysis in this dissertation. These concerns continue to be addressed in the rest of part one. Whereas chapter two offers a reconsideration of the ambiguities of ethnisme/ethnicity and race, chapter three dilates on the methodological implications of a conception of the dis/continuity of race. Part two focuses on the matter of race and examines the political economy of visual-aural encounters, whereas part three shifts the focus and rethinks the possibilities and limitations of transforming racialised and normative constraints. Taking up these particular problematics, this thesis as a whole argues that race trills itself: its identity/difference is simultaneously made possible and impossible.