Supporting parallelism in server-based multiprocessor systems

Developing an efficient server-based real-time scheduling solution that supports dynamic task-level parallelism is now relevant to even the desktop and embedded domains and no longer only to the high performance computing market niche. This paper proposes a novel approach that combines the constantbandwidth server abstraction with a work-stealing load balancing scheme which, while ensuring isolation among tasks, enables a task to be executed on more than one processor at a given time instant.

Capacity sharing and stealing in dynamic server-based real-time systems

This paper proposes a dynamic scheduler that supports the coexistence of guaranteed and non-guaranteed bandwidth servers to efficiently handle soft-tasks’ overloads by making additional capacity available from two sources: (i) residual capacity allocated but unused when jobs complete in less than their budgeted execution time; (ii) stealing capacity from inactive non-isolated servers used to schedule best-effort jobs. The effectiveness of the proposed approach in reducing the mean tardiness of periodic jobs is demonstrated through extensive simulations. The achieved results become even more significant when tasks’ computation times have a large variance.

Implementation of a Campus wide DGPS Data Server

Although the Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging (NAVSTAR) Global Positioning System (GPS) is, de facto, the standard positioning system used in outdoor navigation, it does not provide, per se, all the features required to perform many outdoor navigational tasks. The accuracy of the GPS measurements is the most critical issue. The quest for higher position readings accuracy led to the development, in the late nineties, of the Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS). The differential GPS method detects the range errors of the GPS satellites received and broadcasts them. The DGPS/GPS receivers correlate the DGPS data with the GPS satellite data they are receiving, granting users increased accuracy. DGPS data is broadcasted using terrestrial radio beacons, satellites and, more recently, the Internet. Our goal is to have access, within the ISEP campus, to DGPS correction data. To achieve this objective we designed and implemented a distributed system composed of two main modules which are interconnected: a distributed application responsible for the establishment of the data link over the Internet between the remote DGPS stations and the campus, and the campus-wide DGPS data server application. The DGPS data Internet link is provided by a two-tier client/server distributed application where the server-side is connected to the DGPS station and the client-side is located at the campus. The second unit, the campus DGPS data server application, diffuses DGPS data received at the campus via the Intranet and via a wireless data link. The wireless broadcast is intended for DGPS/GPS portable receivers equipped with an air interface and the Intranet link is provided for DGPS/GPS receivers with just a RS232 DGPS data interface. While the DGPS data Internet link servers receive the DGPS data from the DGPS base stations and forward it to the DGPS data Internet link client, the DGPS data Internet link client outputs the received DGPS data to the campus DGPS data server application. The distributed system is expected to provide adequate support for accurate (sub-metric) outdoor campus navigation tasks. This paper describes in detail the overall distributed application.

Server to Mobile Device Communication: A Case Study

Develop a client-server application for a mobile environment can bring many challenges because of the mobile devices limitations. So, in this paper is discussed what can be the more reliable way to exchange information between a server and an Android mobile application, since it is important for users to have an application that really works in a responsive way and preferably without any errors. In this discussion two data transfer protocols (Socket and HTTP) and three serialization data formats (XML, JSON and Protocol Buffers) were tested using some metrics to evaluate which is the most practical and fast to use.

Creating and optimizing client-server applications on mobile devices

Mobile devices are embedded systems with very limited capacities that need to be considered when developing a client-server application, mainly due to technical, ergonomic and economic implications to the mobile user. With the increasing popularity of mobile computing, many developers have faced problems due to low performance of devices. In this paper, we discuss how to optimize and create client-server applications for in wireless/mobile environments, presenting techniques to improve overall performance.

Sustentabilidade do SIG municipal da CM de Vila Franca de Xira - Operacionalização de um grupo de trabalho multidisciplinar, estruturalmente suportado pelo ArcGis Server Empertrise Advanced

Relatório de Estágio apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Gestão do Território.

Sistema de localização de veículos para smartphone android

Atualmente os sistemas Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) fazem parte do dia-a-dia de muitas empresas. Esta tecnologia tem evoluído significativamente ao longo da última década, tornando-se mais acessível e fácil de utilizar. Este trabalho consiste no desenvolvimento de um sistema de localização de veículos para smartphone Android. Para tal, foram desenvolvidas duas aplicações: uma aplicação de localização para smarphone Android e uma aplicação WEB de monitorização. A aplicação de localização permite a recolha de dados de localização GPS e estabelecer uma rede piconet Bluetooth, admitindo assim a comunicação simultânea com a unidade de controlo de um veículo (ECU) através de um adaptador OBDII/Bluetooth e com até sete sensores/dispositivos Bluetooth que podem ser instalados no veículo. Os dados recolhidos pela aplicação Android são enviados periodicamente (intervalo de tempo definido pelo utilizador) para um servidor Web No que diz respeito à aplicação WEB desenvolvida, esta permite a um gestor de frota efetuar a monitorização dos veículos em circulação/registados no sistema, podendo visualizar a posição geográfica dos mesmos num mapa interativo (Google Maps), dados do veículo (OBDII) e sensores/dispositivos Bluetooth para cada localização enviada pela aplicação Android. O sistema desenvolvido funciona tal como esperado. A aplicação Android foi testada inúmeras vezes e a diferentes velocidades do veículo, podendo inclusive funcionar em dois modos distintos: data logger e data pusher, consoante o estado da ligação à Internet do smartphone. Os sistemas de localização baseados em smartphone possuem vantagens relativamente aos sistemas convencionais, nomeadamente a portabilidade, facilidade de instalação e baixo custo.

Concise server-wide causality management for eventually consistent data stores

Large scale distributed data stores rely on optimistic replication to scale and remain highly available in the face of net work partitions. Managing data without coordination results in eventually consistent data stores that allow for concurrent data updates. These systems often use anti-entropy mechanisms (like Merkle Trees) to detect and repair divergent data versions across nodes. However, in practice hash-based data structures are too expensive for large amounts of data and create too many false conflicts. Another aspect of eventual consistency is detecting write conflicts. Logical clocks are often used to track data causality, necessary to detect causally concurrent writes on the same key. However, there is a nonnegligible metadata overhead per key, which also keeps growing with time, proportional with the node churn rate. Another challenge is deleting keys while respecting causality: while the values can be deleted, perkey metadata cannot be permanently removed without coordination. Weintroduceanewcausalitymanagementframeworkforeventuallyconsistentdatastores,thatleveragesnodelogicalclocks(BitmappedVersion Vectors) and a new key logical clock (Dotted Causal Container) to provides advantages on multiple fronts: 1) a new efficient and lightweight anti-entropy mechanism; 2) greatly reduced per-key causality metadata size; 3) accurate key deletes without permanent metadata.

Visualisierung der Report Server Utalisation

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Remarque sur la destruction des plantes indigènes au Brésil et sur le moyen de les en préserver / par Ladislaü Netto ; suivies d'une note sur le même sujet par M. Naudin.

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TcruziDB, an Integrated Database, and the WWW Information Server for the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome Project

Data analysis, presentation and distribution is of utmost importance to a genome project. A public domain software, ACeDB, has been chosen as the common basis for parasite genome databases, and a first release of TcruziDB, the Trypanosoma cruzi genome database, is available by ftp from ftp://iris.dbbm.fiocruz.br/pub/genomedb/TcruziDB as well as versions of the software for different operating systems (ftp://iris.dbbm.fiocruz.br/pub/unixsoft/). Moreover, data originated from the project are available from the WWW server at http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br. It contains biological and parasitological data on CL Brener, its karyotype, all available T. cruzi sequences from Genbank, data on the EST-sequencing project and on available libraries, a T. cruzi codon table and a listing of activities and participating groups in the genome project, as well as meeting reports. T. cruzi discussion lists (tcruzi-l@iris.dbbm.fiocruz.br and tcgenics@iris.dbbm.fiocruz.br) are being maintained for communication and to promote collaboration in the genome project

SQL-Server 2008 i les noves característiques espacials

La finalitat d'aquest treball és analitzar les noves característiques espacials que ofereix SQLServer 2008. A continuació, com cas pràctic, desenvolupar una aplicació per Windows Mobile on una sèrie de dispositius mòbils puguin indicar la seva ubicació i poder consultar en un mapa, mitjançant el servei en línia Google Maps, la ubicació de la resta de dispositius.

Reserva online de Actividades

El Centre Excursionista de Terrassa (C.E.T.) necessita que els seus socis puguin apuntar-se a les sortides muntanyenques a través d'Internet, evitant el tediós desplaçament a la seu del CET. En un nou servidor Linux, s'executarà la nostra aplicació. En aquest servidor residiran Apatxe i MySQL.

FInDroidMe : desenvolupament d'una aplicació per Android

Elaboració d'una senzilla aplicació client-servidor de localització geogràfica mitjançant el GPS integrat d'un Smartphone amb Sistema Operatiu Android