Statistical assertion: A more powerful method for debugging scientific applications

Traditional debuggers are of limited value for modern scientific codes that manipulate large complex data structures. Current parallel machines make this even more complicated, because the data structure may be distributed across processors, making it difficult to view/interpret and validate its contents. Therefore, many applications’ developers resort to placing validation code directly in the source program. This paper discusses a novel debug-time assertion, called a “Statistical Assertion”, that allows using extracted statistics instead of raw data to reason about large data structures, therefore help locating coding defects. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of an ‘extendable’ statistical-framework which executes the assertion in parallel by exploiting the underlying parallel system. We illustrate the debugging technique with a molecular dynamics simulation. The performance is evaluated on a 20,000 processor Cray XE6 to show that it is useful for real-time debugging.     

A proposal for a convertible stadium roof structure derived from Watt-I linkage

In this paper, a novel convertible stadium roof structure is introduced, which has been derived from a special geometric configuration of Watt-I linkage, a 1-DoF mechanism used in robot technologies as anthropomorphic fingers. The proposed structure can offer a wide range of different shape configurations according to the environmental conditions and spatial needs, thus offering several aesthetic and functional advantages over existing solutions. This paper serves as a feasibility investigation of this concept, mainly from geometric and structural point of view. To that affect, first kinematic analysis and geometric design of this linkage are introduced. Then, structural analyses of the proposed structure with realistic dimensions and loading conditions are performed in three different geometric configurations, in order to discuss strength and stiffness limitations. Finally, potential cover materials and actuators are briefly discussed.     

Electrically insulated molecular wires

This paper is an up-to-date mini-review based on literature data and own results regarding synthesis and properties of conducting (pseudo)rotaxane supramolecular structures. Conjugated polymers, such as polyarylene, polyheteroarylene, polyaniline, polyarylenevinylene or polyaryleneimine, were used as axle, while the macrocyclic components were cyclodextrins, cucurbiturils, cyclophanes or crown ethers. Properties of the supramolecular structure such as solubility, thermal or chemical stability, conductivity, etc. can be drastically modified by the inclusion of hydrophobic conjugated polymers inside the macrocycle, without any chemical modification. For instance, the photophysical properties (i.e. quantum yield of fluorescence and electroluminescence) of the supramolecular structures were enhanced when compared with uninsulated conjugated polymers. The doping process is also affected, because the access of a dopant to the conjugated chain is limited only to the uncovered domains of the conjugated chain.     

美军F-35战斗机PHM体系结构分析

为借鉴国外状态预测与健康管理(PHM)技术的发展经验,促进大型平台实现从状态监控向健康管理过渡,本文回顾了美军PHM技术的发展概况,分析了F-35战斗机PHM的体系结构组成以及各模块的主要功能,总结了F-35战斗机PHM的工作流程,介绍了F-35战斗机PHM系统的发展现状及存在的主要问题,提出了对发展PHM技术的认识,为从事PHM技术工作者提供了参考。     

Low velocity impact response of flax/polypropylene hybrid roving based woven fabric composites: Where does it stand with respect to GRPC?

Flax-PP based thermally bonded roving (TBR) has a unique structure where the flax fibres remain twist-free and fully aligned along the roving axis. The present study describes an experimental investigation on the low velocity impact (LVI) behaviour of the TBR based woven fabric composites and compares the same with plain woven glass fabric reinforced PP composites (GRPC). Two different fabric architectures namely plain woven (PW) and unidirectional (UD) are fabricated using flax/PP based TBR. These TBR based woven fabrics and the glass fabric/PP sheets are consolidated in a compression moulding machine and the resultant composite-laminates are tested for their LVI behaviour. The impact test results revealed that the glass/PP composites absorb more energy and exhibit a higher peak load than both TBR based PW and UD fabric composites. However, the specific load and energy of all flax/PP composites are higher than the glass/PP composite. The damage tolerance of all composite laminates are evaluated by comparing their flexural strength before and after the impact. It is observed that the proportionate loss in flexural strength due to impact thrust is larger in case of glass/PP composites than all flax-PP composites.     

Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer based tree-net architecture for all-optical conversion scheme from binary to its other 2n radix based form

To exploit the parallelism of optics in data processing,a suitable number system and an efficient encoding/decoding scheme for handling the data are very essential.In the field of optical computing and parallel information processing,several number systems like binary,quaternary,octal,hexadecimal,etc.have been used for different arithmetic and algebraic operations.Here,we have proposed an all-optical conversion scheme from its binary to its other 2n radix based form with the help of terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) based tree-net architecture.     

校园网络数据资源分层访问策略

分析了校园ＭＩＳ及数据资源的特征,针对校园信息资源范围广、关联复杂的状况,提出了数据资源统一访问策略——分层访问．数据访问分为七层,各层完成数据访问独立性的特定功能,使不同的访问软件能透明访问全部数据资源．为保证传统应用能基于网络计算访问统一数据资源,又提出了“数据访问管道”和数据库访问服务器的技术．文章分析了以应用服务器为基础的Ｎ－Ｔｉｅｒｓ计算的弊端,设计了“虚拟应用服务器”ＷＵＶ－ＡＰＰＳ,将数据访问对象构造成数据对象组件．     

A new method for the synthesis of organic–polyoxometallate hybrid compounds

The reaction of the Na₂MoO₄ or Na₂WO₄ salt with organic amine and PCl₅, SiCl₄ or TiCl₄ in hydrochloric acid medium under hydrothermal conditions yields organic–polyoxometallate hybrid compounds, with the following reaction formula: Na₂MO₄ + Lewis-base + XCl_n + HCl → (Lewis-baseH)_m(XM₁₂O₄₀) + NaCl + H₂O (M = Mo or W; X = P, Si, Ti,; n = 3–5). By using this method, four new complexes, [(CH₃)₂NH]₃[H₃PW₁₂O₄₀] (1), (C₂H₅OH)₃(H₃PMo₁₂O₄₀) (2), [DMDA]₂[H₄SiW₁₂O₄₀]·H₂O (3) (DMDA = 1 N,3 N-dimethyl-1,3-diazolidine) and [(DAN)₆][H₄TiW₁₂O₄₀]·4H₂O (DAN = 4,4′-dianiline) (4), were obtained, and their crystal structures are reported. Thermal analysis of 1, 2 and 4 has been carried out. The thermal analysis indicates that the Keggin anion skeleton begins to decompose at about 300 °C. The possibility of constructing hydrogen-bond interactions by association between the polyoxometallate and the organic compound is explored. The roles of solvents and organic groups in the formation of specific crystalline architectures are discussed. The crystal structure of [H₄TiW₁₂O₄₀], a hetero-transition-metal Keggin polyoxometallate with a square-plane TiO₄, has been reported. Four architectures developed by hydrogen-bond associations of different Keggin polyoxometallates and organic bearing N–H or O–H donor functions are described. The selected organic modules (4,4′-dianiline, 1,3-dimethylimidazolidine, dimethylamine and ethanol) possess hydrogen-donor functions to allow them to act as bridges between polyoxometallate groups. Depending on the nature of the donor group, the number of hydrogens available for bonding, the geometric features and the sizes of the organic modules, diverse assembling patterns have been observed ranging from one-dimensional to three-dimensional networks. For all the networks, H₃O⁺ and H⁺ act as actual linkers between the molecular units.     

Three-dimensional key in a modified joint transform correlator encryption scheme

We propose a modified encryption joint transform correlator scheme that introduces an additional random phase mask. The positions of both the conventional and the new mask are crucial for successful recovery of the original data. Although the two random phase masks are 2D, variation of their relative distance constitutes an additional dimension. Consequently by including this notion, both random phase masks act as a 3-dimensional (3D) key code increasing thereby the security with respect to the conventional JTC encryption scheme. We employ this scheme to multiplex encrypted data, displacing the encoding masks. During decryption of the multiplexed information, we only reconstruct the object that matches the correct predetermined 3D key code, i.e. that matches the random masks positions in the encryption step. We present actual experimental results, by using BSO crystal as recording medium, as well as their respective analysis.