Comparing Remote Data Transfer Rates of Compact Muon Solenoid Jobs with Xrootd and Lustre

To explore the feasibility of processing Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) analysis jobs across the wide area network, the FIU CMS Tier-3 center and the Florida CMS Tier-2 center designed a remote data access strategy. A Kerberized Lustre test bed was installed at the Tier-2 with the design to provide storage resources to private-facing worker nodes at the Tier-3. However, the Kerberos security layer is not capable of authenticating resources behind a private network. As a remedy, an xrootd server on a public-facing node at the Tier-3 was installed to export the file system to the private-facing worker nodes. We report the performance of CMS analysis jobs processed by the Tier-3 worker nodes accessing data from a Kerberized Lustre file. The processing performance of this configuration is benchmarked against a direct connection to the Lustre file system, and separately, where the xrootd server is near the Lustre file system.

Ultra Compact Inline E-Plane Waveguide Bandpass Filters Using Cross Coupling

This paper presents novel ultra-compact waveguide bandpass filters that exhibit pseudo elliptic responses with ability to place transmission zeros on both sides of the passband to form sharp roll offs. The filters contain E plane extracted pole sections cascaded with cross-coupled filtering blocks. Compactness is achieved by the use of evanescent mode sections and closer arranged resonators modified to shrink in size. The filters containing non-resonating nodes are designed by means of the generalized coupling coefficients (GCC) extraction procedure for the cross-coupled filtering blocks and extracted pole sections. We illustrate the performance of the proposed structures through the design examples of a third and a fourth order filters with center frequencies of 9.2 GHz and 10 GHz respectively. The sizes of the proposed structures suitable for fabricating using the low cost E plane waveguide technology are 38% smaller than ones of the E plane extracted pole filter of the same order.

Non-Verbal Categories. Analysis of an Galician Oral Narrative

Based on the concept of the triple basic structure of human communication by Poyatos (1994a, 1994b) and on the analytical and theoretical implications that derive from this, the present paper conceives the human communication as an indivisible whole in which verbal communication can not be separated from body behavior. This paper analyzes nonverbal categories used in oral communication. The corpus consists of an oral narration in Galician from which we highlighted certain kinemes (minimum units of body movement with meaning) by using the model proposed by Bouvet (2001), in order to explain the non-verbal categories with examples taken from said recordings.

Splitting monoidal stable model categories

If C is a stable model category with a monoidal product then the set of homotopy classes of self-maps of the unit forms a commutative ring, [S,S]C. An idempotent e of this ring will split the homotopy category: [X,Y]C≅e[X,Y]C⊕(1−e)[X,Y]C. We prove that provided the localised model structures exist, this splitting of the homotopy category comes from a splitting of the model category, that is, C is Quillen equivalent to LeSC×L(1−e)SC and [X,Y]LeSC≅e[X,Y]C. This Quillen equivalence is strong monoidal and is symmetric when the monoidal product of C is.

Namibia RSRC Activity Performance Evaluation: Component 1 Report

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) contracted the Technology & Social Change group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington to conduct a performance evaluation of the Namibia Regional Study and Resource Centers (RSRC) Activity. This evaluation has been designed to serve the needs of two major stakeholders, MCC and the Namibia Library and Archives Service (NLAS). The evaluation comprises a set of quantitative and qualitative data collection efforts divided into two categories: Component 1 and Component 2. This report presents the findings for Component 1 only, focusing on evaluating the RSRC planning and implementation activities leading up to the end of the MCA-Namibia Compact in September 2014.

Propriétés hydrauliques d’un till compacté avec un faible pourcentage de particules argileuses

Les propriétés hydrauliques d’un till du Nord du Québec en condition saturée et non saturée ont été étudiées en laboratoire à l’aide de l’essai de conductivité hydraulique et l’essai de succion qui permet d’obtenir la courbe de rétention d’eau. Les essais ont été réalisés avec des échantillons compactés sous différentes conditions de teneur en eau et de masse volumique sèche, de manière à évaluer l’influence de ces conditions sur les propriétés hydrauliques. Les études précédentes ont montré qu’une structure agrégée se développe dans le till lorsqu’il est compacté de côté sec de l’optimum Proctor, c’est-à-dire à un degré de saturation de compactage inférieur au degré de saturation optimum (Sr0 < Sr-opt). Le till étudié dans le cadre de cette étude diffère de ceux utilisés dans les études précédentes par son très faible pourcentage de particules argileuses (< 2 μm) de 0,7%. L’objectif principal de cette étude est d’évaluer l’influence des conditions de compactage sur la conductivité hydraulique et la courbe de rétention d’eau et de déterminer si une structure agrégée se développe lorsque le till est compacté du côté sec de l’optimum. Les résultats expérimentaux typiques de la conductivité hydraulique saturée obtenus pour les échantillons compactés du côté humide de l’optimum (Sr0 > Sr-opt) avec un indice des vides de 0,328 varient de 2,6 x 10-7 à 8,6 x 10-7 m/s. Les conductivités hydrauliques typiques obtenues pour les échantillons compactés du côté sec de l’optimum (Sr0 < Sr-opt) avec le même indice des vides étaient très similaires, variant entre 2,4 x 10-7 et 9,1 x 10-7 m/s. Les courbes de rétention d’eau mesurées en laboratoire sont très semblables entre elles, présentant toutes une structure de sol homogène, peu importe si l’échantillon a été compacté du côté sec ou du côté humide. Il apparait que la conductivité hydraulique et la courbe de rétention d’eau de ce till sont très peu influencées par le degré de saturation de compactage. Ceci peut être expliqué par le très faible pourcentage de particules argileuses, qui prévient la formation d’agrégations de particules dans la structure du till lorsqu’il est compacté du côté sec de l’optimum Proctor. Plusieurs modèles d’estimation de la conductivité hydraulique sont utilisés. Cette étude propose trois nouveaux modèles d’estimation de la conductivité hydraulique saturée pour les tills du Nord du Québec. Le premier modèle met en relation la conductivité hydraulique saturée avec le diamètre des grains de la fraction fine (d50 FF) et le deuxième modèle est une équation modifiée de Kozeny-Carman et Hazen basée sur la porosité et une taille de particule effective (d10). Finalement, un modèle permettant d’évaluer l’effet de l’agrégation avec l’équation de Kozeny-Carman modifiée dans les tills compactés est proposé.

Categories, Allegories, and Circuit Design

Languages based upon binary relations offer an appealing setting for constructing programs from specifications. For example, working with relations rather than functions allows specifications to be more abstract (for example, many programs have a natural specification using the converse operator on relations), and affords a natural treatment of non-determinism in specifications. In this paper we present a novel pictorial interpretation of relational terms as simple pictures of circuits, and a soundness/completeness result that allows relational equations to be proved by pictorial reasoning.

Cost efficient supply processes for the Compact Slim Elevator Door

The aim of this thesis was to observe possibilities to enhance the development of manufacturing costs savings and competitiveness related to the compact KONE Renova Slim elevator door. Compact slim doors are especially designed for EMEA markets. EMEA market area is characterized by highly competitive pricing and lead times which are manifested as pressures to decrease manufacturing costs and lead times of the compact elevator door. The new elevator safety code EN81-20 coming live during the spring 2016 will also have a negative impact on the cost and competitiveness development making the situation more acute. As a sheet metal product the KONE Renova slim is highly variable. Manufacturing methods utilized in the production are common and robust methods. Due to the low volumes, high variability and tight lead times the manufacturing of the doors is facing difficulties. Manufacturing of the doors is outsourced to two individual suppliers Stera and Wittur. This thesis was implemented in collaboration with Stera. KONE and Stera pursue a long term and close partnership where the benefits reached by the collaboration are shared equally. Despite the aims, the collaboration between companies is not totally visible and various barriers are hampering the development towards more efficient ways of working. Based on the empirical studies related to this thesis, an efficient standardized (A+) process was developed for the main variations of the compact elevator door. Using the standardized process KONE is able to order the most important AMDS door variations from Stera with increased quality, lower manufacturing costs and manufacturing lead time compared to the current situation. In addition to all the benefits, the standardized (A+) process also includes risks in practice. KONE and the door supplier need to consider these practical risks together before decisions are made.

Compactness in quasi-Banach function spaces and applications to compact embeddings of Besov-type spaces

There are two main aims of the paper. The first one is to extend the criterion for the precompactness of sets in Banach function spaces to the setting of quasi-Banach function spaces. The second one is to extend the criterion for the precompactness of sets in the Lebesgue spaces $L_p(\Rn)$, $1 \leq p < \infty$, to the so-called power quasi-Banach function spaces. These criteria are applied to establish compact embeddings of abstract Besov spaces into quasi-Banach function spaces. The results are illustrated on embeddings of Besov spaces $B^s_{p,q}(\Rn)$, $0<s<1$, $0<p,q\leq \infty$, into Lorentz-type spaces.

2-categories and cyclic homology

The topic of this thesis is the application of distributive laws between comonads to the theory of cyclic homology. The work herein is based on the three papers 'Cyclic homology arising from adjunctions', 'Factorisations of distributive laws', and 'Hochschild homology, lax codescent,and duplicial structure', to which the current author has contributed. Explicitly, our main aims are: 1) To study how the cyclic homology of associative algebras and of Hopf algebras in the original sense of Connes and Moscovici arises from a distributive law, and to clarify the role of different notions of bimonad in this generalisation. 2) To extend the procedure of twisting the cyclic homology of a unital associative algebra to any duplicial object defined by a distributive law. 3) To study the universality of Bohm and Stefan’s approach to constructing duplicial objects, which we do in terms of a 2-categorical generalisation of Hochschild (co)homology. 4) To characterise those categories whose nerve admits a duplicial structure.