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'Informal' Kids Rules Kick in March 1
March 1 is the date broadcasters have agreed to come into compliance with a compromise on new kids rules struck with kids TV activists.
Signed up to line up along the new lines laid down by the deal are Viacom, CBS, Disney, Fox, NBC Universal, Time Warner, Discovery, 4Kids Entertainment, and the Association of National Advertisers.
The deal was struck in December after both sides took the rules to court--the media companies because they thought they were too restrictive, the activists because they thought they were not tough enough.
There is a confidential settlement terms that suggest the rules don't take effect until the FCC OK's the deal, but that is apparently not the case.
Acccording to Gloria Tristani, executive director of the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ and a leader on the activist side of the table, the parties have agreed that the compromise rules will kick in, whether or not the FCC has put its official imprimatur on them by that date.
Currently the FCC has stayed enforcement of its own take on digital TV kids rules pending consideration of the agreement, which all the commissioners were briefed on, including new commissioner, Deborah Tate.
The deal, which both sides say they have presented to the FCC, would leave in place the requirement that broadcasters air three hours of children's TV per channel in both analog and digital. That was the key issue of the coalition, says McIntyre.
In addition, the media companies agreed not to challenge limits on the display of commercial Web sites during children's programming. Under the rules, scheduled to kick in Jan. 1, those displays would count toward the ad limits in kids programming.
The groups agreed to a modified form of host selling in which the use of TV characters to sell products to kids would be confined to specific areas of a Web site if that Web address was displayed in shows that featured those characters.
The key is that there will have to be a buffer between the character and a sales pitch.
Arguably the biggest deal was on program promotion in kids shows. The FCC rules as currently constituted count any program promotion in a kids show as an advertisement, reducing the amount of paid ads that can air during the show. Under the agreement, show promos for kids shows on the same channel or educational kids shows on any channel would not count as ad time.
In addition, there would be no numerical limits, as the current rules contain, on the ability of broadcasters to preempt kids shows for live sports and other programming.
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We perform a three-dimensional (3-D) global simulation of Earth's magnetosphere with kinetic reconnection physics to study the flux transfer events (FTEs) and dayside magnetic reconnection with the recently developed magnetohydrodynamics with embedded particle-in-cell model. During the 1 h long simulation, the FTEs are generated quasi-periodically near the subsolar point and move toward the poles. We find that the magnetic field signature of FTEs at their early formation stage is similar to a "crater FTE," which is characterized by a magnetic field strength dip at the FTE center. After the FTE core field grows to a significant value, it becomes an FTE with typical flux rope structure. When an FTE moves across the cusp, reconnection between the FTE field lines and the cusp field lines can dissipate the FTE. The kinetic features are also captured by our model. A crescent electron phase space distribution is found near the reconnection site. A similar distribution is found for ions at the location where the Larmor electric field appears. The lower hybrid drift instability (LHDI) along the current sheet direction also arises at the interface of magnetosheath and magnetosphere plasma. The LHDI electric field is about 8 mV/m, and its dominant wavelength relative to the electron gyroradius agrees reasonably with Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations.
Computational intensive applications such as pattern recognition, and natural language processing, are increasingly popular on HPC systems. Many of these applications use deep-learning, a branch of machine learning, to determine the weights of artificial neural network nodes by minimizing a loss function. Such applications depend heavily on dense matrix multiplications, also called tensorial operations. The use of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has considerably speeded up deep-learning computations, leading to a Renaissance of the artificial neural network. Recently, the NVIDIA Volta GPU and the Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) have been specially designed to support deep-learning workloads. New programming models have also emerged for convenient expression of tensorial operations and deep-learning computational paradigms. An example of such new programming frameworks is TensorFlow, an open-source deep-learning library released by Google in 2015. TensorFlow expresses algorithms as a computational graph where nodes represent operations and edges between nodes represent data flow. Multi-dimensional data such as vectors and matrices which flows between operations are called Tensors. For this reason, computation problems need to be expressed as a computational graph. In particular, TensorFlow supports distributed computation with flexible assignment of operation and data to devices such as GPU and CPU on different computing nodes. Computation on devices are based on optimized kernels such as MKL, Eigen and cuBLAS. Inter-node communication can be through TCP and RDMA. This work attempts to evaluate the usability and expressiveness of the TensorFlow programming model for traditional HPC problems. As an illustration, we prototyped a distributed block matrix multiplication for large dense matrices which cannot be co-located on a single device and a Conjugate Gradient (CG) solver. We evaluate the difficulty of expressing traditional HPC algorithms using computational graphs and study the scalability of distributed TensorFlow on accelerated systems. Our preliminary result with distributed matrix multiplication shows that distributed computation on TensorFlow is extremely scalable. This study provides an initial investigation of new emerging programming models for HPC.
We present an initial design and implementation of a Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method based on the work carried out in the European Exascale AllScale project. AllScale provides a unified programming system for the effective development of highly scalable, resilient and performance-portable parallel applications for Exascale systems. The AllScale approach is based on task-based nested recursive parallelism and it provides mechanisms for automatic load-balancing in the PIC simulations. We provide the preliminary results of the AllScale-based PIC implementation and draw directions for its future development.
Nekbone is a proxy application of Nek5000, a scalable Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code used for modelling incompressible flows. The Nekbone mini-application is used by several international co-design centers to explore new concepts in computer science and to evaluate their performance. We present the design and implementation of a new communication kernel in the Nekbone mini-application with the goal of studying the performance of different parallel communication models. First, a new MPI blocking communication kernel has been developed to solve Nekbone problems in a three-dimensional Cartesian mesh and process topology. The new MPI implementation delivers a 13% performance improvement compared to the original implementation. The new MPI communication kernel consists of approximately 500 lines of code against the original 7,000 lines of code, allowing experimentation with new approaches in Nekbone parallel communication. Second, the MPI blocking communication in the new kernel was changed to the MPI non-blocking communication. Third, we developed a new Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) communication kernel, based on the GPI-2 library. This approach reduces the synchronization among neighbor processes and is on average 3% faster than the new MPI-based, non-blocking, approach. In our tests on 8,192 processes, the GPI-2 communication kernel is 3% faster than the new MPI non-blocking communication kernel. In addition, we have used the OpenMP in all the versions of the new communication kernel. Finally, we highlight the future steps for using the new communication kernel in the parent application Nek5000.
Collisionless shock nonstationarity arising from microscale physics influences shock structure and particle acceleration mechanisms. Nonstationarity has been difficult to quantify due to the small spatial and temporal scales. We use the closely spaced (subgyroscale), high-time-resolution measurements from one rapid crossing of Earth's quasiperpendicular bow shock by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft to compare competing nonstationarity processes. Using MMS's high-cadence kinetic plasma measurements, we show that the shock exhibits nonstationarity in the form of ripples.
Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission observations show clear evidence of the occurrence of the magnetic reconnection process in the Martian plasma tail. In this study, we use sophisticated numerical models to help us understand the effects of magnetic reconnection in the plasma tail. The numerical models used in this study are (a) a multispecies global Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) model and (b) a global HMHD model two-way coupled to an embedded fully kinetic particle-in-cell code. Comparison with MAVEN observations clearly shows that the general interaction pattern is well reproduced by the global HMHD model. The coupled model takes advantage of both the efficiency of the MHD model and the ability to incorporate kinetic processes of the particle-in-cell model, making it feasible to conduct kinetic simulations for Mars under realistic solar wind conditions for the first time. Results from the coupled model show that the Martian magnetotail is highly dynamic due to magnetic reconnection, and the resulting Mars-ward plasma flow velocities are significantly higher for the lighter ion fluid, which are quantitatively consistent with MAVEN observations. The HMHD with Embedded Particle-in-Cell model predicts that the ion loss rates are more variable but with similar mean values as compared with HMHD model results.
EPiGRAM is a European Commission funded project to improve existing parallel programming models to run efficiently large scale applications on exascale supercomputers. The EPiGRAM project focuses on the two current dominant petascale programming models, message-passing and PGAS, and on the improvement of two of their associated programming systems, MPI and GASPI. In EPiGRAM, we work on two major aspects of programming systems. First, we improve the performance of communication operations by decreasing the memory consumption, improving collective operations and introducing emerging computing models. Second, we enhance the interoperability of message-passing and PGAS by integrating them in one PGAS-based MPI implementation, called EMPI4Re, implementing MPI endpoints and improving GASPI interoperability with MPI. The new EPiGRAM concepts are tested in two large-scale applications, iPIC3D, a Particle-in-Cell code for space physics simulations, and Nek5000, a Computational Fluid Dynamics code.
The vast majority of parallel scientific applications distributes computation among processes that are in a busy state when computing and in an idle state when waiting for information from other processes. We identify the propagation of idle waves through processes in scientific applications with a local information exchange between the two processes. Idle waves are nondispersive and have a phase velocity inversely proportional to the average busy time. The physical mechanism enabling the propagation of idle waves is the local synchronization between two processes due to remote data dependency. This study provides a description of the large number of processes in parallel scientific applications as a continuous medium. This work also is a step towards an understanding of how localized idle periods can affect remote processes, leading to the degradation of global performance in parallel scientific applications.
SAGE (Percipient StorAGe for Exascale Data Centric Computing) is a European Commission funded project towards the era of Exascale computing. Its goal is to design and implement a Big Data/Extreme Computing (BDEC) capable infrastructure with associated software stack. The SAGE system follows a storage centric approach as it is capable of storing and processing large data volumes at the Exascale regime. SAGE addresses the convergence of Big Data Analysis and HPC in an era of next-generation data centric computing. This convergence is driven by the proliferation of massive data sources, such as large, dispersed scientific instruments and sensors where data needs to be processed, analyzed and integrated into simulations to derive scientific and innovative insights. A first prototype of the SAGE system has been been implemented and installed at the Jülich Supercomputing Center. The SAGE storage system consists of multiple types of storage device technologies in a multi-tier I/O hierarchy, including flash, disk, and non-volatile memory technologies. The main SAGE software component is the Seagate Mero Object Storage that is accessible via the Clovis API and higher level interfaces. The SAGE project also includes scientific applications for the validation of the SAGE concepts. The objective of this paper is to present the SAGE project concepts, the prototype of the SAGE platform and discuss the software architecture of the SAGE system.
We aim to implement a Big Data/Extreme Computing (BDEC) capable system infrastructure as we head towards the era of Exascale computing - termed SAGE (Percipient StorAGe for Exascale Data Centric Computing). The SAGE system will be capable of storing and processing immense volumes of data at the Exascale regime, and provide the capability for Exascale class applications to use such a storage infrastructure. SAGE addresses the increasing overlaps between Big Data Analysis and HPC in an era of next-generation data centric computing that has developed due to the proliferation of massive data sources, such as large, dispersed scientific instruments and sensors, whose data needs to be processed, analysed and integrated into simulations to derive scientific and innovative insights. Indeed, Exascale I/O, as a problem that has not been sufficiently dealt with for simulation codes, is appropriately addressed by the SAGE platform. The objective of this paper is to discuss the software architecture of the SAGE system and look at early results we have obtained employing some of its key methodologies, as the system continues to evolve.
We present a systematic attempt to study magnetic null points and the associated magnetic energy conversion in kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of various plasma configurations. We address three-dimensional simulations performed with the semi-implicit kinetic electromagnetic code iPic3D in different setups: variations of a Harris current sheet, dipolar and quadrupolar magnetospheres interacting with the solar wind,. and a relaxing turbulent configuration with multiple null points. Spiral nulls are more likely created in space plasmas: in all our simulations except lunar magnetic anomaly (LMA) and quadrupolar mini-magnetosphere the number of spiral nulls prevails over the number of radial nulls by a factor of 3-9. We show that often magnetic nulls do not indicate the regions of intensive energy dissipation. Energy dissipation events caused by topological bifurcations at radial nulls are rather rare and short-lived. The so-called X-lines formed by the radial nulls in the Harris current sheet and LMA simulations are rather stable and do not exhibit any energy dissipation. Energy dissipation is more powerful in the vicinity of spiral nulls enclosed by magnetic flux ropes with strong currents at their axes (their cross. sections resemble 2D magnetic islands). These null lines reminiscent of Z-pinches efficiently dissipate magnetic energy due to secondary instabilities such as the two-stream or kinking instability, accompanied by changes in magnetic topology. Current enhancements accompanied by spiral nulls may signal magnetic energy conversion sites in the observational data.
We demonstrate the improvements to an implicit Particle-in-Cell code, iPic3D, on the example of dipolar magnetic field immersed in the flow of the plasma and show the formation of a magnetosphere. We address the problem of modelling multi-scale phenomena during the formation of a magnetosphere by implementing an adaptive sub-cycling technique to resolve the motion of particles located close to the magnetic dipole centre, where the magnetic field intensity is maximum. In addition, we implemented new open boundary conditions to model the inflow and outflow of plasma. We present the results of a global three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulation and discuss the performance improvements from the adaptive sub-cycling technique.
Synchronization in message passing systems is achieved by communication among processes. System and architectural noise and different workloads cause processes to be imbalanced and to reach synchronization points at different time. Thus, both communication and imbalance impact the synchronization performance. In this paper, we study the algorithmic properties that allow the communication in synchronization to absorb the initial imbalance among processes. We quantify the imbalance absorption properties of different barrier algorithms using a LogP Monte Carlo simulator. We found that linear and f-way tournament barriers can absorb up to 95% of random exponential imbalance with the standard deviation equal to the communication time for one message. Dissemination, butterfly and pairwise exchange barriers, on the other hand, do not absorb imbalance but can effectively bound the post-barrier imbalance. We identify that synchronization transits from communication-dominated to imbalance-dominated when the standard deviation of imbalance distribution is more than twice the communication time for one message. In our study, f-way tournament barriers provided the best imbalance absorption rate and convenient communication time.
We carried out global Particle-in-Cell simulations of the interaction between the solar wind and a magnetosphere to study the kinetic collisionless physics in super-critical quasi-perpendicular shocks. After an initial simulation transient, a collisionless bow shock forms as a result of the interaction of the solar wind and a planet magnetic dipole. The shock ramp has a thickness of approximately one ion skin depth and is followed by a trailing wave train in the shock downstream. At the downstream edge of the bow shock, whistler waves propagate along the magnetic field lines and the presence of electron cyclotron waves has been identified. A small part of the solar wind ion population is specularly reflected by the shock while a larger part is deflected and heated by the shock. Solar wind ions and electrons are heated in the perpendicular directions. Ions are accelerated in the perpendicular direction in the trailing wave train region. This work is an initial effort to study the electron and ion kinetic effects developed near the bow shock in a realistic magnetic field configuration.
Next-generation supercomputers will feature more hierarchical and heterogeneous memory systems with different memory technologies working side-by-side. A critical question is whether at large scale existing HPC applications and emerging data-analytics workloads will have performance improvement or degradation on these systems. We propose a systematic and fair methodology to identify the trend of application performance on emerging hybrid-memory systems. We model the memory system of next-generation supercomputers as a combination of 'fast' and 'slow' memories. We then analyze performance and dynamic execution characteristics of a variety of workloads, from traditional scientific applications to emerging data analytics to compare traditional and hybrid-memory systems. Our results show that data analytics applications can clearly benefit from the new system design, especially at large scale. Moreover, hybrid-memory systems do not penalize traditional scientific applications, which may also show performance improvement.
Idle periods on different processes of Message Passing applications are unavoidable. While the origin of idle periods on a single process is well understood as the effect of system and architectural random delays, yet it is unclear how these idle periods propagate from one process to another. It is important to understand idle period propagation in Message Passing applications as it allows application developers to design communication patterns avoiding idle period propagation and the consequent performance degradation in their applications. To understand idle period propagation, we introduce a methodology to trace idle periods when a process is waiting for data from a remote delayed process in MPI applications. We apply this technique in an MPI application that solves the heat equation to study idle period propagation on three different systems. We confirm that idle periods move between processes in the form of waves and that there are different stages in idle period propagation. Our methodology enables us to identify a self-synchronization phenomenon that occurs on two systems where some processes run slower than the other processes.
Large-scale HPC systems are an important driver for solving computational problems in scientific communities. Next-generation HPC systems will not only grow in scale but also in heterogeneity. This increased system complexity entails more challenges to data movement in HPC applications. Data movement on emerging HPC systems requires asynchronous fine-grained communication and efficient data placement in the main memory. This thesis proposes an innovative programming model and algorithm to prepare HPC applications for the next computing era: (1) a data streaming model that supports emerging data-intensive applications on supercomputers, (2) a decoupling model that improves parallelism and mitigates the impact of imbalance in applications, (3) a new framework and methodology for predicting the impact of largescale heterogeneous memory systems on HPC applications, and (4) a data placement algorithm that uses a set of rules and a decision tree to determine the data-to-memory mapping in heterogeneous main memory.
The proposed approaches in this thesis are evaluated on multiple supercomputers with different processors and interconnect networks. The evaluation uses a diverse set of applications that represent conventional scientific applications and emerging data-analytic workloads on HPC systems. The experimental results on the petascale testbed show that the approaches obtain increasing performance improvements as system scale increases and this trend supports the approaches as a valuable contribution towards future HPC systems.
Traditional scientific and emerging data analytics applications require fast, power-efficient, large, and persistent memories. Combining all these characteristics within a single memory technology is expensive and hence future supercomputers will feature different memory technologies side-by-side. However, it is a complex task to program hybrid-memory systems and to identify the best object-to-memory mapping. We envision that programmers will probably resort to use default configurations that only require minimal interventions on the application code or system settings. In this work, we argue that intelligent, fine-grained data placement can achieve higher performance than default setups. We present an algorithm for data placement on hybrid-memory systems. Our algorithm is based on a set of single-object allocation rules and global data placement decisions. We also present RTHMS, a tool that implements our algorithm and provides recommendations about the object-to-memory mapping. Our experiments on a hybrid memory system, an Intel Knights Landing processor with DRAM and HBM, show that RTHMS is able to achieve higher performance than the default configuration. We believe that RTHMS will be a valuable tool for programmers working on complex hybrid-memory systems.
Production-quality parallel applications are often a mixture of diverse operations, such as computation- and communication-intensive, regular and irregular, tightly coupled and loosely linked operations. In conventional construction of parallel applications, each process performs all the operations, which might result inefficient and seriously limit scalability, especially at large scale. We propose a decoupling strategy to improve the scalability of applications running on large-scale systems. Our strategy separates application operations onto groups of processes and enables a dataflow processing paradigm among the groups. This mechanism is effective in reducing the impact of load imbalance and increases the parallel efficiency by pipelining multiple operations. We provide a proof-of-concept implementation using MPI, the de-facto programming system on current supercomputers. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this strategy by decoupling the reduce, particle communication, halo exchange and I/O operations in a set of scientific and data-analytics applications. A performance evaluation on 8,192 processes of a Cray XC40 supercomputer shows that the proposed approach can achieve up to 4x performance improvement.
Data streams are a sequence of data flowing between source and destination processes. Streaming is widely used for signal, image and video processing for its efficiency in pipelining and effectiveness in reducing demand for memory. The goal of this work is to extend the use of data streams to support both conventional scientific applications and emerging data analytics applications running on HPC platforms. We introduce an extension called MPIStream to the de-facto programming standard on HPC, MPI. MPIStream supports data streams either within a single application or among multiple applications. We present three use cases using MPI streams in HPC applications together with their parallel performance. We show the convenience of using MPI streams to support the needs from both traditional HPC and emerging data analytics applications running on supercomputers.
Data streaming model is an effective way to tackle the chal-lenge of data-intensive applications. As traditional HPC applications generate large volume of data and more data-intensive applications move to HPC infrastructures, it is nec-essary to investigate the feasibility of combining message-passing and streaming programming models. MPI, the de facto standard for programming on HPC, cannot intuitively express the communication pattern and the functional op-erations required in streaming models. In this work, we de-signed and implemented a data streaming library MPIStream atop MPI to allocate data producers and consumers, to stream data continuously or irregularly and to process data at run-Time. In the same spirit as the STREAM benchmark, we developed a parallel stream benchmark to measure data processing rate. The performance of the library largely de-pends on the size of the stream element, the number of data producers and consumers and the computational intensity of processing one stream element. With 2,048 data produc-ers and 2,048 data consumers in the parallel benchmark, MPIStream achieved 200 GB/s processing rate on a Blue Gene/Q supercomputer. We illustrate that a streaming li-brary for HPC applications can effectively enable irregular parallel I/O, application monitoring and threshold collective operations. © 2015 ACM.
We carried out a 3D fully kinetic simulation of Earth's magnetotail magnetic reconnection to study the dynamics of energetic particles. We developed and implemented a new relativistic particle mover in iPIC3D, an implicit Particle-in-Cell code, to correctly model the dynamics of energetic particles. Before the onset of magnetic reconnection, energetic electrons are found localized close to current sheet and accelerated by lower hybrid drift instability. During magnetic reconnection, energetic particles are found in the reconnection region along the x-line and in the separatrices region. The energetic electrons are first present in localized stripes of the separatrices and finally cover all the separatrix surfaces. Along the separatrices, regions with strong electron deceleration are found. In the reconnection region, two categories of electron trajectory are identified. First, part of the electrons are trapped in the reconnection region, bouncing a few times between the outflow jets. Second, part of the electrons pass the reconnection region without being trapped. Different from electrons, energetic ions are localized on the reconnection fronts of the outflow jets.
This paper presents an extension to MPI supporting the one-sided communication model and window allocations in storage. Our design transparently integrates with the current MPI implementations, enabling applications to target MPI windows in storage, memory or both simultaneously, without major modifications. Initial performance results demonstrate that the presented MPI window extension could potentially be helpful for a wide-range of use-cases and with low-overhead.
We investigate the use of artificially increased ion and electron kinetic scales in global plasma simulations. We argue that as long as the global and ion inertial scales remain well separated, (1) the overall global solution is not strongly sensitive to the value of the ion inertial scale, while (2) the ion inertial scale dynamics will also be similar to the original system, but it occurs at a larger spatial scale, and (3) structures at intermediate scales, such as magnetic islands, grow in a self-similar manner. To investigate the validity and limitations of our scaling hypotheses, we carry out many simulations of a two-dimensional magnetosphere with the magnetohydrodynamics with embedded particle-in-cell (MHD-EPIC) model. The PIC model covers the dayside reconnection site. The simulation results confirm that the hypotheses are true as long as the increased ion inertial length remains less than about 5% of the magnetopause standoff distance. Since the theoretical arguments are general, we expect these results to carry over to three dimensions. The computational cost is reduced by the third and fourth powers of the scaling factor in two-and three-dimensional simulations, respectively, which can be many orders of magnitude. The present results suggest that global simulations that resolve kinetic scales for reconnection are feasible. This is a crucial step for applications to the magnetospheres of Earth, Saturn, and Jupiter and to the solar corona.
We have recently developed a new modeling capability to embed the implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) model iPIC3D into the Block-Adaptive-Tree-Solarwind-Roe-Upwind-Scheme magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model. The MHD with embedded PIC domains (MHD-EPIC) algorithm is a two-way coupled kinetic-fluid model. As one of the very first applications of the MHD-EPIC algorithm, we simulate the interaction between Jupiter's magnetospheric plasma and Ganymede's magnetosphere. We compare the MHD-EPIC simulations with pure Hall MHD simulations and compare both model results with Galileo observations to assess the importance of kinetic effects in controlling the configuration and dynamics of Ganymede's magnetosphere. We find that the Hall MHD and MHD-EPIC solutions are qualitatively similar, but there are significant quantitative differences. In particular, the density and pressure inside the magnetosphere show different distributions. For our baseline grid resolution the PIC solution is more dynamic than the Hall MHD simulation and it compares significantly better with the Galileo magnetic measurements than the Hall MHD solution. The power spectra of the observed and simulated magnetic field fluctuations agree extremely well for the MHD-EPIC model. The MHD-EPIC simulation also produced a few flux transfer events (FTEs) that have magnetic signatures very similar to an observed event. The simulation shows that the FTEs often exhibit complex 3-D structures with their orientations changing substantially between the equatorial plane and the Galileo trajectory, which explains the magnetic signatures observed during the magnetopause crossings. The computational cost of the MHD-EPIC simulation was only about 4 times more than that of the Hall MHD simulation. Key Points
We present the design and implementation of a spectral code, called SpectralPlasmaSolver (SPS), for the solution of the multi-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell equations. The method is based on a Hermite-Fourier decomposition of the particle distribution function. The code is written in Fortran and uses the PETSc library for solving the non-linear equations and preconditioning and the FFTW library for the convolutions. SPS is parallelized for shared- memory machines using OpenMP. As a verification example, we discuss simulations of the two-dimensional Orszag-Tang vortex problem and successfully compare them against a fully kinetic Particle-In-Cell simulation. An assessment of the performance of the code is presented, showing a significant improvement in the code running-time achieved by preconditioning, while strong scaling tests show a factor of 10 speed-up using 16 threads.
A spectral method for kinetic plasma simulations based on the expansion of the velocity distribution function in a variable number of Hermite polynomials is presented. The method is based on a set of non-linear equations that is solved to determine the coefficients of the Hermite expansion satisfying the Vlasov and Poisson equations. In this paper, we first show that this technique combines the fluid and kinetic approaches into one framework. Second, we present an adaptive strategy to increase and decrease the number of Hermite functions dynamically during the simulation. The technique is applied to the Landau damping and two-stream instability test problems. Performance results show 21% and 47% saving of total simulation time in the Landau and two-stream instability test cases, respectively.
Whistler wave-particle interactions play an important role in the Earth inner magnetospheric dynamics and have been the subject of numerous investigations. By running a global kinetic ring current model (RAM-SCB) in a storm event occurred on Oct 23-24 2002, we obtain the ring current electron distribution at a selected location at MLT of 9 and L of 6 where the electron distribution is composed of a warm population in the form of a partial ring in the velocity space (with energy around 15 keV) in addition to a cool population with a Maxwellian-like distribution. The warm population is likely from the injected plasma sheet electrons during substorm injections that supply fresh source to the inner magnetosphere. These electron distributions are then used as input in an implicit particle-in-cell code (iPIC3D) to study whistler-wave generation and the subsequent wave-particle interactions. We find that whistler waves are excited and propagate in the quasi-parallel direction along the background magnetic field. Several different wave modes are instantaneously generated with different growth rates and frequencies. The wave mode at the maximum growth rate has a frequency around 0.62 omega(ce), which corresponds to a parallel resonant energy of 2.5 keV. Linear theory analysis of wave growth is in excellent agreement with the simulation results. These waves grow initially due to the injected warm electrons and are later damped due to cyclotron absorption by electrons whose energy is close to the resonant energy and can effectively attenuate waves. The warm electron population overall experiences net energy loss and anisotropy drop while moving along the diffusion surfaces towards regions of lower phase space density, while the cool electron population undergoes heating when the waves grow, suggesting the cross-population interactions.

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So I'm having a heckuva time getting online this last week or so. My wifi only allows 6 gigs of data, which I can easily use all by my lonesome while barely even watching any streaming video or doing any internet gaming or whatever. But get my hubby on there, with his facebook video games and streaming John Wayne movies, and it's used up two weeks before it is supposed to be.
I went to Freddie's this morning, hoping to get online there and finally write up another blog post. I've been itching to write another one or two. But then, it took me over an hour of futzing with their wifi trying to get on, but it wouldn't let me get to my blog. I was able to check my email reasonably quickly, and I even double checked to see if it accessed facebook. And no, I didn't waste an hour on facebook and am now trying to use it as the excuse as to why I didn't get a blog post done—I just verified that yes, I could navigate through it peachy keen and left it alone. This in itself is a minor miracle. But while somehow I was filled with the power to ignore facebook's lure, I was unable to get onto my blasted blog!!!! So I'm posting it this evening from Burgerville. (I'm meeting another fellow blogger from Portland for the first time tonight—I'll post about that, later.)
Grrrr. Internet problems are very annoying. I swear, I often wonder just what we did before the invention of the internet and computers. Did we pass around stone rocks with notes scribbled on them, or something? Hey, Gog–here, catch! Since I can't throw a rock very far, my words don't seem to have the same weight. Well, they might have weight to the person whose got them imprinted on their forehead from my rock…
So, just to let y'all know, I'm still alive and kickin'. I'll post more after Friday, when I should get my internet all topped up again. This time I've made it clear to the hubster that if he uses up the data on my wifi again, I'll sell him to the Gypsies. Or a circus. Or…wherever. There's gotta be somebody who is willing to buy a moderately-used Hawaiian guy. He performs tricks, honest. Just ask him to pull your finger.
Maybe my irritation is fueled in part by the fact that I haven't had any caffeine in over a week! Unless you count chocolate. Since I went to a graveyard shift, I've been sucking energy drinks and iced coffee down like no tomorrow. So, I'm kinda happy that I've knocked off the caffeine, and maybe I'll try to be more understanding of the hubby. Yeah? Hm. I'll think about it.
On a more positive note, the mouth is no longer hurting. The gaping hole left by the removal of one of my molars is healing up nicely. Yay!
Not so yay is the bill. That was a very expensive day health-wise. Between getting a tooth yanked, paying for the prescriptions for that and having to buy new glasses (and see the eye doc) because my other pair lost a lens, I spent about $575. The sucky thing is that my health insurance won't go into effect until March and I couldn't wait until then to do any of this. I'm lucky that I got paid that day. But still, bills like that set us back a LOT.
Hope your January has gone better than mine so far.


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The Seaport District gets its close-up, in last week's Times' Travel section (for some reason, the reporter calls it "South Boston", apparently getting this mistake past the editor).
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But with the arrival last December of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (100 Northern Avenue, 617-478-3101; www.icaboston.org), a visionary glass box designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro that cantilevers over the waterfront, the neighborhood is finally emerging as a vibrant arts district, with destination restaurants, green parks and condos.
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Well are they weapons of war or not?!
Okay, for weeks now the gun-grabbing Lefties have been shrieking that AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles are weapons of war.
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So short it will be non existent. The idea that an assault rifle will save you from the US military is laughable. It's a water gun vs a tsunami situation. 🤣
— Kurt (left is right)™💧 (@kurtimus) March 5, 2018
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Is the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle a "military-style" weapon of war?
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Here's @adamweinstein on the bad-faith practice of 'gunsplaining.' https://t.co/zXJ2vnb5M7
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Students from George Mason University's School of Dance rehearsed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with one of the most famous modern dance companies in the world
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opened its 18-city 2015 tour in Washington, D.C., but before they hit the stage, members of the company made a personal visit to Mason's dance students.
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Indian factory activity expanded more quickly in September on strong domestic and export order growth, a business survey showed, a welcome sign of strength as policy makers worry about a sharp drop in the rupee and fallout from global trade frictions.
Taken together with evidence of higher inflation pressures from a weak currency and rising oil prices, the survey results may bolster already-firming expectations for an interest rate hike this week from the Reserve Bank of India.
The Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by IHS Markit, rose to 52.2 in September from 51.7 in August.
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However, optimism about future output slipped to the lowest since June 2018, the survey showed.
An escalating U.S.-China trade war has pushed up the dollar and hurt emerging market assets, including the rupee which is down over 13 percent this year and is ramping up the cost of crude oil imports.
The weaker rupee and oil - India's biggest import - pose a serious upside risk to inflation.
To support the rupee and reduce inflation pressure, the Reserve Bank of India was forecast to hike its repo rate to 6.75 percent on October 5, according to a Reuters poll.
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A 38-year-old Farmington man was sentenced Tuesday to 60 years in prison on child-pornography charges involving the filming of nine-year-old girl as she showered.
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Later this year BMW will be launchig the third generation of the BMW X5 SUV with a choice of three engines, a 450hp V8 petrol engine (xDrive50i) and two six-cylinder in-line diesel units, producing 258hp with one turbo (xDrive30d) and 381hp with three turbos (M50d M Performance). Further engine options are expected at the end of 2013, xDrive40d, xDrive35i and, for the first time on the X5 model, two four-cylinder engines xDrive25d and sDrive25d (with two-wheel transmission).
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text: Latest News U.S. Trade Rep's List 4A Exclusion Portal for China 301 Duties Set to Open on Oct. 31 By Staff Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:24 AM ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Vision Council has announced that the U.S. Trade Representative has published the procedures for requesting an exclusion from additional China 301 duties for products classified within a tariff subheading set out on Annex A to List 4 (which was published Aug. 20, 2019). The window for seeking product exemptions will open at noon on Oct. 31 and close on Jan. 31, 2020, according to The Vision Council's announcement. As the association previously noted, the Annex A to List 4 contains the tariff numbers associated with most of The Vision Council's key member products, including lenses, frames, sunglasses, reading glasses, finished eyeglasses and many low vision devices. VMAIL reported on the lists and the products they included here. Under the exclusion procedures, those impacted by additional duties on goods originating in China pursuant to List 4A can petition to have your products excluded from these duties. This exclusion process pertains only to goods covered by tariff numbers on List 4A, The Vision Council noted.The Vision Council will be reviewing these procedures over the coming days and will provide additional guidance on how best to approach the process. The association also noted that questions or concerns about this issue can be directed to Rick Van Arnam, The Vision Council's regulatory affairs counsel, at firstname.lastname@example.com originally announced in early that it would institute additional tariffs of 10 percent on approximately $250 billion of imports from China identified on List 4A, but on Aug. 26 announced that the tariff rate would increase to 15 percent due to ongoing tensions and forestalled trade negotiations.


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The Weston McEwen FFA and Agriculture Education Program received a $50,000 grant from AWERE last Spring to build a new livestock facility on the school farm.
Kralman Steel, Alumni, and students worked in partnership with Athena Weston School District to complete the new facility that will house livestock for FFA and 4-H students.
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The U.S. economy added 224,000 jobs in June, surging past expectations and helping ease fears about the nation's economic health amid President Trump's trade war. The unemployment rate inched up to 3.7 percent, remains near a half-century low. The rate increased because more Americans entered the labor force, meaning they found a job or are actively searching for one again. Many companies say they are struggling to find enough workers to fill all their job openings as the unemployment rate has been at or below 4 percent for more than a year. Jobs gains were broad-based, with professional services, health care, construction, transportation and warehousing all experiencing large bumps in hiring. Please visit our blog to see the detailed unemployment rate by occupation, age and gender.
President Trump called the jobs news "unbelievable," adding that "the military has a hard time getting people" because there is so much competition for workers. It is time for you to update your career profile and pitch potential employers now!
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Progressives in the sports media are among the strongest advocates of pay for college athletes. The New York Times has advocated for it. So has Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (in an article in The Guardian), and so have Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe of Fox Sports 1. After Monday's national championship football game, USA Today's Nancy Armour (in photo) suggests the NCAA either gets with the pay for play times or a judge may it do it for the organization that governs university sports in the U.S.
Armour writes that colleges are exploiting their athletes, and she predicts Clemson's star quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who led the Tigers to a 44-16 victory over Alabama, will be the NCAA's undoing in its opposition to athletes' pay for play:
"The drumbeat for college athletes getting paid in some fashion has gotten louder in recent years, and it's about to become a roar with Lawrence. For the next three years, every game Clemson plays, every spectacular play Lawrence makes will be a reminder that while the adults in the NCAA system are getting rich, the kids who make it all possible are not."
A story by Bleacher Report's Zach Dirlam refutes that. He wrote that in a recent year only 22 university athletic departments were turning profits.
Nevertheless, Armour says even the opponents of pay for play can't be comfortable with Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney earning $6 million a year "while his telegenic quarterback can't even get royalties from the No. 16 jerseys that will become a staple in the wardrobe of every Tigers fan."
Lawrence, she predicts, will make it impossible to ignore the inequity of the current NCAA system. As the quarterback and the face of Clemson football, she says he must be rewarded financially. Even though he signed a document accepting Clemson's offer of a free education in exchange for agreeing to play for the Tigers' football team.
In Armour's world, college athletes would be in need of financial advisers as much as coaches, because they would be professional athletes:
"Allow players to profit off their names, images and likenesses. Give players an annuity, based on the number of years they play, and allow them to collect it when they're, say, 30. Make their scholarships open-ended and transferable so they can go to graduate school – or get a degree they might actually use – even after their eligibility has been exhausted."
The nonprofit NCAA rejects such ideas, but Armour says it either adjusts to the times or a judge will dictate pay for play. She could be right, as there are likely activist judges willing to write such regulations from the bench. That's the progressive way: if you can't legislate something, shop for a judge who will hand it to you.
Armour knows this would make opponents of pay for play very unhappy. "The so-called purists will howl about amateurism and destroying the wholesome environment of college athletics. Please. Those days went out the window when bowl games began selling naming rights and schools started building athletic facilities that rival the Taj Mahal. College athletics is a business, and a big one at that. It's time the players get a piece of the pie."
Not only are athletes getting free college education, they are also getting excellent medical care and all-expenses paid travel. Payola could increase the number of athletic department scandals and misuse of public funds. Only the top-tier universities are earning profits now in the current system of amateurism, and paying salaries to hundreds of scholarship athletes would be a huge financial burden to most colleges and universities.


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10 Books every entrepreneur needs to read
There are tons of books out there on business and entrepreneurship. Many of them actually are good, and worth reading.
But when you're busy starting and/or building a business, your time is limited. So rather than recommend a big list of books (which I might one day), here's a list of top 10 books I recommend every entrepreneur (especially those just getting started) to read. They're not organised in any order of preference (or
The Purple Cow by Seth Godin.
The Purple Cow is one of the best books on branding, period. It really encapsulates the importance of standing out. This is one of my all-time favorite business books. Doesn't matter what stage of business you are in – if you haven't read this book, you need to.
Get your copy here: The Purple Cow
Freesourcing by Jonathan Yates
If you want to know how to start/run a business with little or no money, this is the book for you. Jonathan does a great job of brainstorming ways you can get creative in the absence of capital – it is bound to spark some ideas. A must read if you're bootstrapping your idea.
Get your copy here: Freesourcing
The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss is currently one
Get your copy here: The 4-Hour Work Week
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
Another great book on starting & running a business on little to no money. Chris's book is great for sparking ideas (especially if you are low on funding…).
Get your copy here: The $100 Startup
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
If you've ever heard of "lean business", this is the book that started it all. A bit of a dry read, but it has some great ideas for making your business more
Get your copy here: The Lean Startup
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
This one is a classic. Stephen Covey does a great job of simplifying the habits of effective people
Get your copy here: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson
Not many people know about this, but it really is a great book. It covers the different stages of business, and what it takes to grow
Get your copy here: Ready, Fire, Aim
The Snowball by Alice Shroeder
Warren Buffet epitomizes entrepreneurship in the 21st century. I can't think of a better person to learn about business from. So why not learn from his life?
Get your copy here: The Snowball
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
This is the autobiography of Steve Jobs – love him or hate him, you can learn a lot from him about business. I remember spending hours making notes from this book. I'm sure you'll find an idea or two…
Get your copy here: Steve Jobs
The Real Deal by James Caan.
You can learn a lot from the life of other entrepreneurs, that's why three of my ten recommendations are bios. This one is the biography of James Caan, a British-Asian entrepreneur (most known for being in Dragons Den) . It's an insightful read about an entrepreneur's journey, a tale of starting from nothing.
Get your copy here: The Real Deal
If you're an aspiring entrepreneur, or just getting started, you should definitely check these books out.
Do you have any recommendations? What are your favourites?


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New Zealand Beach Cottage
Located on Waiheke Island, in New Zealand, the homeowners, Kate and Barry knew they had found their ideal home when they discovered this cottage.
Set above a cliff, with astonishing views of Oneroa Bay, the cottage had everything they ever needed — ocean views and character. It also had character flaws that had to be overlooked at first. With help of the architect Paul McIntosh, this diamond in the rough cottage became a charming and more livable place, where the homeowners now live full time. And honestly, how could you ever leave a place which has views like this?
I hope you enjoy seeing this beautiful beach cottage with me today.
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If you are interested in waterfront property in Prince George County, now is your chance.
Tomorrow, an auction is being held to sell a unique property. However, it may cost you millions of dollars. Just to bid on the property requires a $250,000 deposit.
If you are interested in waterfront property in Prince George County, now is your chance.
Tomorrow, an auction is being held to sell a unique property. However, it may cost you millions of dollars. Just to bid on the property requires a $250,000 deposit.
But this isn't any old property. It is the oldest continuing agricultural operation in the nation and includes an 18th century plantation home family tradition says was designed by Thomas Jefferson.
Brandon Plantation is roughly 5,000 acres of property dating back to the early 1600s and will be sold at auction. It is one of the few times that the property has changed hands in its nearly 400-year history.
Even though the 1,557 acres of open or tillable land still produces record crops, the property's historical roots run deep, connecting to several U.S. presidents, the Titanic, and even William Shakespeare. In 1970, it was designated a national historic landmark.
"It is probably one of the most unique properties ever. You have two perspectives here. There is roughly 4,500 acres of some of the most productive soil in the state of Virginia, and then you have the historical significance of this incredible property. The two makes it very unique," Michael Schwartz with Premier Estates Auction Company said. Schwartz is the manager of Brandon Plantation's auction.
Nearly 5,000 acres was patented in 1616 to John Martin, one of the explorers who accompanied Christopher Newport and helped found Jamestown Colony. The tract was named Brandon after Martin's wife's family.
In 1635, the property was sold to Richard Quinley, whose brother was married to William Shakespeare's daughter, Judith. The Quinleys farmed the land until 1720 when it was sold to Nathaniel Harrison.
The Harrisons are a prominent political family who produced Virginia governors and two U.S. presidents, Benjamin Harrison and William Henry Harrison.
The property stayed in the Harrison family for over two centuries until Robert W. Daniel Sr. acquired the property in 1926. In addition to being a survivor of the Titanic, Daniel Sr. was a Virginia state senator and financier.
The Daniels undertook the restoration of the house and grounds, but left some parts of the property untouched. Part of the plantation home, built circa 1765, still bears dents from Revolutionary War and Civil War cannonballs.
"It means a lot to Prince George County in the sense that it is one of the most historic sites in the county. It is also one of the most historic sites in the nation," said Carol Bowman, executive director of the Prince George Regional Heritage Center.
Whoever purchase the property will have a historical gem. It would be nice if the plantation was ever opened to the public, even if on a very limited basis, such as an annual open house.