Large scale compute clusters continue to grow to ever-increasing proportions. However, as clusters and applications continue to grow, the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) has redu...
Reportedly, supercomputer designer Seymour Cray once said that he would sooner use two strong oxen to plow a field than a thousand chickens. Although this is undoubtedly wise when...
Oscilloscopes and their cousins, logic analyzers, are the tools of choice for difficult electronic hardware problems. In the hands of a skilled engineer or technician, these tool...
Mark K. Gardner, Michael Broxton, Adam Engelhart, ...
This paper describes the design and implementation of functionally distributed control architecture for real-time control of robot systems. Robot systems must control several func...
For about ten years now, Bo K˚agstr¨om’s Group in Umea, Sweden, Jerzy Wa´sniewski’s Team at Danish Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark, and I at IBM Research in Yorktown...