scholarly journals Supporting the Scale-Up of High Performance Application to Pre-Exascale Systems: The ANTAREX Approach

Author(s):  
Cristina Silvano ◽  
Giovanni Agosta ◽  
Andrea Bartolini ◽  
Andrea R. Beccari ◽  
Luca Benini ◽  
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Author(s):  
Jianguo Wu ◽  
Shiyu Zhou ◽  
Xiaochun Li

A206–Al2O3 metal matrix nanocomposite (MMNC) is a promising high performance material with potential applications in various industries, such as automotive, aerospace, and defense. Al2O3 nanoparticles dispersed into molten Al using ultrasonic cavitation technique can enhance the nucleation of primary Al phase to reduce its grain size and modify the secondary intermetallic phases. To enable a scale-up production, an effective yet easy-to-implement quality inspection technique is needed to effectively evaluate the resultant microstructure of the MMNCs. At present the standard inspection technique is based on the microscopic images, which are costly and time-consuming to obtain. This paper investigates the relationship between the ultrasonic attenuation and the microstructures of pure A206 and Al2O3 reinforced MMNCs with/without ultrasonic dispersion. A hypothesis test based on an estimated attenuation variance was developed and it could accurately differentiate poor samples from good ones. This study provides useful guidelines to establish a new quality inspection technique for A206–Al2O3 nanocomposites using ultrasonic nondestructive testing method.


2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 630-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar Tiwari ◽  
Sarang Pande ◽  
Sanat Agrawal ◽  
Santosh M. Bobade

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and evaluate the selection of materials for the selective laser sintering (SLS) process, which is used for low-volume production in the engineering (e.g. light weight machines, architectural modelling, high performance application, manufacturing of fuel cell, etc.), medical and many others (e.g. art and hobbies, etc.) with a keen focus on meeting customer requirements. Design/methodology/approach – The work starts with understanding the optimal process parameters, an appropriate consolidation mechanism to control microstructure, and selection of appropriate materials satisfying the property requirement for specific application area that leads to optimization of materials. Findings – Fabricating the parts using optimal process parameters, appropriate consolidation mechanism and selecting the appropriate material considering the property requirement of applications can improve part characteristics, increase acceptability, sustainability, life cycle and reliability of the SLS-fabricated parts. Originality/value – The newly proposed material selection system based on properties requirement of applications has been proven, especially in cases where non-experts or student need to select SLS process materials according to the property requirement of applications. The selection of materials based on property requirement of application may be used by practitioners from not only the engineering field, medical field and many others like art and hobbies but also academics who wish to select materials of SLS process for different applications.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1275
Author(s):  
Changdao Du ◽  
Yoshiki Yamaguchi

Due to performance and energy requirements, FPGA-based accelerators have become a promising solution for high-performance computations. Meanwhile, with the help of high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers, FPGA can be programmed using common programming languages such as C, C++, or OpenCL, thereby improving design efficiency and portability. Stencil computations are significant kernels in various scientific applications. In this paper, we introduce an architecture design for implementing stencil kernels on state-of-the-art FPGA with high bandwidth memory (HBM). Traditional FPGAs are usually equipped with external memory, e.g., DDR3 or DDR4, which limits the design space exploration in the spatial domain of stencil kernels. Therefore, many previous studies mainly relied on exploiting parallelism in the temporal domain to eliminate the bandwidth limitations. In our approach, we scale-up the design performance by considering both the spatial and temporal parallelism of the stencil kernel equally. We also discuss the design portability among different HLS compilers. We use typical stencil kernels to evaluate our design on a Xilinx U280 FPGA board and compare the results with other existing studies. By adopting our method, developers can take broad parallelization strategies based on specific FPGA resources to improve performance.


This work investigates the performance of SiGe Hybrid JunctionLess FinFET (HJLFinFET) on insulator with different mole fraction x. The band gap difference for different mole fractions are explored. Impact of electrical characteristics and SCE of HJLFinFET are analyzed with fin width 10nm and varying gate length from 5nm-40nm for different mole fraction. Synopsys Sentaurus TCAD tool(sprocess and sdevice) are used in Device modelling and device simulation. Simulation results shows improvement in On current, DIBL and SS. For high performance application SiGe with mole fraction less than 0.3 at channel length less than 10nm are suitable because of the bandgap value is similar to silicon.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Al-Mayhedee Zubair ◽  
Mohammad Abdul Mannan ◽  
Junji Tamura

The environment friendly blessings of Electrical Vehicles (EV), human beings are becoming extra involved in the use of them alternatively than the usage of mechanical differentials. In electrical vehicles distinct sorts of electrical machines are used among them DFIM is used in this work. The challenging work is to design of a controller as the output of the motor has to match with vehicle input. So, far, most of the mentioned works have utilized Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers as the speed control. But, the negative aspects of PI controller are properly known, as its design depends on the specific motor parameters and the overall performance is sensitive to system disturbances. The fundamental goal of this paper is to replace the conventional PI controller by means of an IP controller which is successful of dealing with exceedingly non-linear DFIM motor for high performance application in Electrical Vehicle. The effectiveness of designed IP controller of an electrical differential for an EV system is evaluated through Matlab/Simulink software. In simulation work different road conditions for EV are considered. After the simulation the designed controller is found to be strong for the speed control application of Electrical Vehicle.


2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Biloshapka ◽  
Oleksiy Osiyevskyy

Purpose Defines clear steps for growth planning that support answers to the crucial question: How and where are you planning to scale up the business and what talent do you need to implement this? Design/methodology/approach As the “Business model value matrix” shows, having ‘happy customers’ is only one determinant of a business model’s success. The other essential block of diagnostic questions deals with the current state and prospects of the firm’s growth. Findings We found that companies that have found ways to keep their business models in a winner’s state can provide clear, evidence-based answers to questions about growth opportunities and risks, while their less successful peers have difficulty addressing the issues. Continuous collecting and analyzing of this information allows successful companies to embrace the strategy-as-learning model of development, built around active learning and proactive adjustment to evolving environment. Practical implications To develop a strategy for moving to and sustaining the Winner state, managers must clearly articulate and test a set of hypotheses about the mechanisms of their company’s growth. The first step on this path is related to obtaining a clear view on the factors that underpin the current financial performance. Originality/value High-performance cultures make sure that each manager has the clear answers to the questions of value, growth and digitization in order to learn, experiment and implement the company business model agenda. The unproductive cultures, on the other hand, are sustained by managerial teams that usually do not have the answers to these crucial questions, but are very good at political games.


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