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document.write("<tr><th class='rss_title'><a href='http://acis.scs.fsu.edu' target='_blank'>News and Noteworthy from the ACIS lab</a></th></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc'>Copyright 2004-2008 Robert van Engelen</td></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_item' bgcolor='#dddddd'><a href='http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2009/2/Cloud-II-2009-CFP-0522-2009.pdf' target='_blank'>IEEE 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD-II 2009)</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_date' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>Posted Mon May 25 22:00:00 2009 </td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing is the identified hot-topic conference of the IEEE 2009 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009).</td></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_item' bgcolor='#dddddd'><a href='http://www.sersc.org/HPCC2009' target='_blank'>The 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-09)</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_date' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>Posted Sat Nov  1 22:00:00 2008 </td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>HPCC-09 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC). The HPCC-09 conference provides a premier forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications.</td></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_item' bgcolor='#dddddd'><a href='http://acis.scs.fsu.edu' target='_blank'>New Playstation 3 cluster in ACIS lab</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_date' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>Posted Sat Dec  1 21:00:00 2007 </td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc' bgcolor='#eeeeee'><img src=\"http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/PS3.png\" border=\"0\"/> We recently acquired eight PS3 machines for research in the ACIS (advanced computation and information systems) lab. The PS3's will serve the dedicated cycles we need to run experiments with CPU-bound forecast models. We are also interested in programming models and compilation techniques for heterogeneous multicore systems for which the machine will serve as a testbed.</td></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_item' bgcolor='#dddddd'><a href='http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/courses/HPC' target='_blank'>High-Performance Computing Course, Fall 2007 and 2008</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_date' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>Posted Sun Jul 22 22:00:00 2007 </td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>This course is an introductory course on high-performance computing. High-performance computing refers to the use of (parallel) supercomputers and computer clusters, and everything from software to hardware to speed up computations. In this course you will learn how to write faster code that is highly optimized for modern multi-core processors and clusters, using modern software development tools and performance profilers, specialized algorithms, parallelization strategies, and advanced parallel programming constructs.</td></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_item' bgcolor='#dddddd'><a href='http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/all.html' target='_blank'>XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Interoperability </a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_date' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>Posted Wed May  2 22:00:00 2007 </td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>The gSOAP C and C++ Databinding Interoperability Results are available, thanks to Hugo Haas and the W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Interoperability working group.</td></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_item' bgcolor='#dddddd'><a href='http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/powerlaw.html' target='_blank'>Are Web Services Scale Free?</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_date' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>Posted Fri Jun 16 22:00:00 2006 </td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>The world of SOAP-based Web services is scale-free, based on a sample of 400 WSDLs.</td></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_item' bgcolor='#dddddd'><a href='http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/background_overview.htm' target='_blank'>Towards 2020 Science: computing and scientific discovery</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_date' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>Posted Fri May 12 22:00:00 2006 </td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>In the summer of 2005, an international expert group was brought together for a workshop to define and produce a new vision and roadmap of the evolution, challenges and potential of computer science and computing in scientific research in the next fifteen years.</td></tr>");
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document.write("<tr><td class='rss_item' bgcolor='#dddddd'><a href='R2D2.jpg' target='_blank'>Just for fun: a Mindstorms R2D2</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_date' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>Posted Mon May  8 15:21:00 2006 </td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td class='rss_desc' bgcolor='#eeeeee'><a href=\"R2D2.jpg\"><img width=\"74\" height=\"80\" src=\"R2D2.jpg\" border=\"0\"/></a> This is our custom-built fully-functional R2D2 contructed with Lego Mindstorms with lots of other Lego parts. It houses the RCX2.5 controller, three motors, two touch sensors, and a light sensor. The challenges were to fit all of this in the droid's small hull constructed from eight large curved Lego pieces (from a Lego gasoline rail car), to position the COG, and write real-time programs to let it do some useful stuff. The droid searches and follows a light source, moves and turns its head, avoids obstacles, solves mazes, and plays the well-known Star Wars tunes. Because the COG isn't perfect, it does a wheely when it gets excited.</td></tr>");
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