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Global Mold Production Yields Competitive Advantage 2007-12-01 Siemens

Perlos Corporation, headquartered in Finland, is the world's largest supplier of mechanical modules for the telecommunications industry and one of the world's biggest manufacturers of dry-powder inhalers for the pharmaceutical industry. The company challenge was to lower cost economies that are leading to price erosion with tool design and manufacturing time is commonly 5 to 6 weeks; but this is still far from customer expectations and customers demand continuous improvement in end-product surface quality. To meet these challenges, Perlos uses NX software - the digital product development solution from Siemens PLM Software. NX provides the high-end tool design and manufacturing applications Perlos needs to accelerate operations.

Tags: Groupware - Workflow, Application Development,

The Power of the Pen 2007-12-01 Fujitsu

More than at any other time in the history of personal computing solutions, pen computing today provides performance and flexibility that is opening doors for all types of industries and users.

What used to be strictly a vertical technology, used primarily in healthcare and insurance, is becoming horizontal and finding a home in education, sales force automation, and a host of other applications. This transition is no coincidence. As more and more workers become mobile, the ease of use and accuracy provided by the pen is taking the industry by storm.

This white paper discusses why so many businesses today are deciding to take advantage of pen computing, its advantages over standard notebook computers, the industries that are best suited to pen computing, the types of form-factors and other choices available, and how pen-enabled computers can benefit all types of users and the types of work they do.

Tags: Portable Computers, Tablets

Create a Handwritten Signature for e-Mail Messages on the Tablet PC 2007-12-01 Microsoft

By using the Ink features in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, the user can use a Tablet PC and a tablet pen to create a handwritten signature for their e-mail messages. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 enables the user to create personalized e-mail signatures composed of text and images. The user adds their handwritten signature to an Outlook e-mail signature, and then the user configures Outlook to automatically add the signature to their outgoing messages, or he or she manually adds the signature whenever it's needed.

Tags: Email, E-Mail Client

Select a Paper Source 2007-12-01 Microsoft

For printer troubleshooting or driver information, see: The printer's manual, the printer manufacturer's Web site, the Microsoft Product Support Web site and the Microsoft Office Communities. Many printers have upper and lower trays that contain different sizes of paper. Matching a form to a paper source ensures that the files are always printed on the correct paper size when one selects the form within a program.

Tags: Email

Parallel Processing Using Data Localization for MPEG2 Encoding on OSCAR Chip Multiprocessor 2007-12-01 Waseda University

Need for efficient processing of multimedia applications on PCs, mobile phones, games and so on have been increasing. Especially, low cost, low power consumption and high performance processors for multi-media applications have been expected. To satisfy the demands, chip multiprocessor architectures which allow giving scalability using multigrain parallelism are attracting much attention. However, to get performance of chip multiprocessor architectures, data locality optimization for target applications is also required. This paper describes a parallel processing scheme for MPEG2 encoding using data localization technique which improves execution efficiency by using global data locality optimization among different loops with coarse grain task parallel processing, and evaluates the performance of the proposal scheme on OSCAR chip multiprocessor architecture.

Tags: Parallel Processing

Cache Optimization for Coarse Grain Task Parallel Processing Using Inter-Array Padding 2007-12-01 Waseda University

The wide use of multiprocessor system has been making automatic parallelizing compilers more important. To improve the performance of multiprocessor system more by compiler, multigrain parallelization is important. In multigrain parallelization, coarse grain task parallelism among loops and subroutines and near fine grain parallelism among statements is used in addition to the traditional loop parallelism. In addition, locality optimization to use cache effectively is also important for the performance improvement. This paper describes inter-array padding to minimize cache conflict misses among macro-tasks with data localization scheme which decomposes loops sharing the same arrays to fit cache size and executes the decomposed loops consecutively on the same processor.

Tags: Parallel Processing

Characterizing and Evaluating Desktop Grids: An Empirical Study 2007-12-01 University of California

Desktop resources are attractive for running compute-intensive distributed applications. Several systems that aggregate these resources in desktop grids have been developed. While these systems have been successfully used for many high throughput applications there has been little in-sight into the detailed temporal structure of CPU availability of desktop grid resources. Yet, this structure is critical to characterize the utility of desktop grid platforms for both task parallel and even data parallel applications. This paper addresses the following questions: What are the temporal characteristics of desktop CPU availability in an enterprise setting? How do these characteristics affect the utility of desktop grids? Based on these characteristics, can one construct a model of server "Equivalents" for the desk-top grids, which can be used to predict application performance?

Tags: High Performance Computing

Metro Health and HP: Replacing PCs to Boost Efficiency 2007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

When it came time to equip their new hospital with PCs, Metro Health chose an innovative alternative - HP BladeSystem Blade PCs - to improve patient care.

Tags: Blades

HP Workstation Education Solutions: Ajay Sahi 2007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

The presenter of this webcast explains why someone would choose a workstation instead of a high-end desktop in the education environment.

HP Tablet PC Education Solutions: Jerel Chong 2007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

The presenter of this webcast explains why schools and educational environments should consider using Tablet PCs over standard notebooks.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Global Mold Production Yields Competitive Advantage	2007-12-01	Siemens
Perlos Corporation, headquartered in Finland, is the world's largest supplier of mechanical modules for the telecommunications industry and one of the world's biggest manufacturers of dry-powder inhalers for the pharmaceutical industry. The company challenge was to lower cost economies that are leading to price erosion with tool design and manufacturing time is commonly 5 to 6 weeks; but this is still far from customer expectations and customers demand continuous improvement in end-product surface quality. To meet these challenges, Perlos uses NX software - the digital product development solution from Siemens PLM Software. NX provides the high-end tool design and manufacturing applications Perlos needs to accelerate operations. Tags: Groupware - Workflow, Application Development,
The Power of the Pen	2007-12-01	Fujitsu
More than at any other time in the history of personal computing solutions, pen computing today provides performance and flexibility that is opening doors for all types of industries and users. What used to be strictly a vertical technology, used primarily in healthcare and insurance, is becoming horizontal and finding a home in education, sales force automation, and a host of other applications. This transition is no coincidence. As more and more workers become mobile, the ease of use and accuracy provided by the pen is taking the industry by storm. This white paper discusses why so many businesses today are deciding to take advantage of pen computing, its advantages over standard notebook computers, the industries that are best suited to pen computing, the types of form-factors and other choices available, and how pen-enabled computers can benefit all types of users and the types of work they do. Tags: Portable Computers, Tablets
Create a Handwritten Signature for e-Mail Messages on the Tablet PC	2007-12-01	Microsoft
By using the Ink features in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, the user can use a Tablet PC and a tablet pen to create a handwritten signature for their e-mail messages. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 enables the user to create personalized e-mail signatures composed of text and images. The user adds their handwritten signature to an Outlook e-mail signature, and then the user configures Outlook to automatically add the signature to their outgoing messages, or he or she manually adds the signature whenever it's needed. Tags: Email, E-Mail Client
Select a Paper Source	2007-12-01	Microsoft
For printer troubleshooting or driver information, see: The printer's manual, the printer manufacturer's Web site, the Microsoft Product Support Web site and the Microsoft Office Communities. Many printers have upper and lower trays that contain different sizes of paper. Matching a form to a paper source ensures that the files are always printed on the correct paper size when one selects the form within a program. Tags: Email
Parallel Processing Using Data Localization for MPEG2 Encoding on OSCAR Chip Multiprocessor	2007-12-01	Waseda University
Need for efficient processing of multimedia applications on PCs, mobile phones, games and so on have been increasing. Especially, low cost, low power consumption and high performance processors for multi-media applications have been expected. To satisfy the demands, chip multiprocessor architectures which allow giving scalability using multigrain parallelism are attracting much attention. However, to get performance of chip multiprocessor architectures, data locality optimization for target applications is also required. This paper describes a parallel processing scheme for MPEG2 encoding using data localization technique which improves execution efficiency by using global data locality optimization among different loops with coarse grain task parallel processing, and evaluates the performance of the proposal scheme on OSCAR chip multiprocessor architecture. Tags: Parallel Processing
Cache Optimization for Coarse Grain Task Parallel Processing Using Inter-Array Padding	2007-12-01	Waseda University
The wide use of multiprocessor system has been making automatic parallelizing compilers more important. To improve the performance of multiprocessor system more by compiler, multigrain parallelization is important. In multigrain parallelization, coarse grain task parallelism among loops and subroutines and near fine grain parallelism among statements is used in addition to the traditional loop parallelism. In addition, locality optimization to use cache effectively is also important for the performance improvement. This paper describes inter-array padding to minimize cache conflict misses among macro-tasks with data localization scheme which decomposes loops sharing the same arrays to fit cache size and executes the decomposed loops consecutively on the same processor. Tags: Parallel Processing
Characterizing and Evaluating Desktop Grids: An Empirical Study	2007-12-01	University of California
Desktop resources are attractive for running compute-intensive distributed applications. Several systems that aggregate these resources in desktop grids have been developed. While these systems have been successfully used for many high throughput applications there has been little in-sight into the detailed temporal structure of CPU availability of desktop grid resources. Yet, this structure is critical to characterize the utility of desktop grid platforms for both task parallel and even data parallel applications. This paper addresses the following questions: What are the temporal characteristics of desktop CPU availability in an enterprise setting? How do these characteristics affect the utility of desktop grids? Based on these characteristics, can one construct a model of server "Equivalents" for the desk-top grids, which can be used to predict application performance? Tags: High Performance Computing
Metro Health and HP: Replacing PCs to Boost Efficiency	2007-12-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
When it came time to equip their new hospital with PCs, Metro Health chose an innovative alternative - HP BladeSystem Blade PCs - to improve patient care. Tags: Blades
HP Workstation Education Solutions: Ajay Sahi	2007-12-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
The presenter of this webcast explains why someone would choose a workstation instead of a high-end desktop in the education environment.
HP Tablet PC Education Solutions: Jerel Chong	2007-12-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
The presenter of this webcast explains why schools and educational environments should consider using Tablet PCs over standard notebooks.