In contrast to the more established alternative asset classes like real estate or hedge funds,
there is not much research available for investments in shipping. This article contributes to …

The financial crisis and the rescue measures taken by governments and central banks
increased investors' interest in liquidity and in real assets supposed to offer a hedge against …

… MB/s for the L1 cache for size 8-16KB, 285 MB/s for reading the L2 cache at size 32256KB
and 107 MB/s … Writes to the L2 cache perform at 116 MB/s, or 130 MB/s when using the write-…

… This section will analyze the CPU cores usage distribution for 250 MB, 300 MB, 350 MB,
400 MB, 450 MB and 500 MB image datasets. At first the CPU cores usage distribution for the …

… The system is clocked at 2.8 GHz and comes with 64 KB L1 cache and an 8 MB L2 cache.
It … Each processor has a 4 MB eight-banked 16-way associative L3 cache shared across all …

… Rather than complex structures of relatively small items interconnected by references, we
are faced with large chunks of memory, usually arrays, which often account for 100s of MB each…

… write at a speed of up to 20 MB/s, cache hits write at up to 125 MB/s. For reading the speed
… and L2 cache misses read at up to 20 MB/s whereas cache hits read at up to 285 MB/s. …

We address the challenge of parallelization development of industrial high-performance
inspection systems comparing a conventional parallelization approach versus an auto-…

A major challenge in modelling and simulation is the need to combine expertise in both
software technologies and a given scientific domain. When High-Performance Computing (HPC) …

This paper introduces the ADVANCE approach to engineering concurrent systems using a
new component-based approach. A cost-directed tool-chain maps concurrent programs onto …