块对角主元法的并行计算

本文给出块对角主元法的并行计算,证明了用这种方法分解矩阵是稳定的。同时编制了向量FORTRAN程序,在向量机上进行了数值试验。计算结果表明:当n>100时,向量计算比标量计算快10倍以上。     

一类广义延拓四元数矩阵的奇异值分解

从普通四元数矩阵的奇异值分解出发,给出了具有行或列对称结构的一类四元数矩阵(即广义四元数延拓矩阵)的奇异值、奇异向量与其母矩阵的奇异值、奇异向量之间的定量关系,推广了现有文献的结果。理论分析和数值实验的结果表明,就一大类广义四元数延拓矩阵而言,仅用母矩阵进行奇异值分解不但可以节省计算量和存储量,而且不影响任何数值精度。     

二维矩阵卷积在向量处理器中的设计与实现

为了加快卷积神经网络模型的计算速度,便于大规模神经网络模型在嵌入式微处理器中的实现,以FT-matrix2000向量处理器体系结构为研究背景,通过对多核向量处理器体系结构的分析和对卷积神经网络算法的深入研究,提出将规模较小的卷积核数据置于标量存储体,尺寸较大的卷积矩阵置于向量存储体的数据布局方案。针对矩阵卷积中数据难以复用的问题,提出根据卷积核移动步长的不同动态可配置的混洗模式,通过对所取卷积矩阵元素进行不同的移位操作,进而大幅提高卷积矩阵数据的复用率。针对二维矩阵卷积由于存在数据相关性进而难以多核并行的问题,提出将卷积矩阵多核共享,卷积核矩阵多核独享的多核并行方案。设计了卷积核尺寸不变、卷积矩阵规模变化和卷积矩阵尺寸不变、卷积核规模变化的两种计算方式,并在主流CPU、GPU、TI6678、FT-matrix2000平台进行了性能对比与分析。实验结果表明:FT-matrix2000相比CPU最高可加速238倍,相比TI6678可加速21倍,相比GPU可加速663 805倍。     

利用时间窗权重进行航迹关联

提出一种利用传感器测量数据的时间窗权重进行航迹关联的方法,将目标运动状态的多维向量(如距离、方位角、俯仰角等)分解为多个一维状态标量;根据每个状态标量与时间的关系,提取两条航迹的共同测量时间区间,将其划分为若干个时间窗,计算对应时间窗内的权重;根据时间窗权重差计算每一个状态标量的航迹相似度;应用DS理论或Bayes理论进行航迹关联决策。     

两种改进的m-最优多假设跟踪(MHT)算法

针对多假设跟踪(MHT)算法在跟踪多目标时出现的关联矩阵随目标及量测数急剧增长的情况,从降低聚矩阵行、列向量维数角度,提出了两种改进的m-最优MHT关联算法.仿真结果表明,所提出的改进方法不仅大大减少了由高维聚矩阵拆分所引起的庞大计算量,而且实现了对多个目标的有效量测-航迹关联,具有一定的实用性.     

一种高效的支持原位计算的三角矩阵乘法向量化方法

向量处理器的向量化算法映射是难点问题。提出一种高效的支持原位计算的三角矩阵乘法向量化方法,采用将L1D配置为SRAM模式,用双缓冲的乒乓方式平滑多级存储结构的数据传输,使得内核的计算与DMA数据搬移完全重迭,让内核始终以峰值速度运行,从而取得最佳的计算效率;将不规则的三角矩阵乘法计算均衡分布到各个向量处理单元,充分开发向量处理器的多级并行性;将结果矩阵保存在乘数矩阵中,实现原位计算,节省了存储空间。在Matrix上的实验结果表明,提出的向量化方法使三角矩阵乘法性能达到1053.7GFLOPS,效率为91.47%。     

支持原位计算的高效三角矩阵乘法向量化方法

向量化算法映射是向量处理器的难点问题。提出一种高效的支持原位计算的三角矩阵乘法向量化方法:将L1D配置为SRAM模式,用双缓冲的乒乓方式平滑多级存储结构的数据传输,使得内核的计算与DMA数据搬移完全重叠,让内核始终以峰值速度运行,从而取得最佳的计算效率;将不规则的三角矩阵乘法计算均衡分布到各个向量处理单元,充分开发向量处理器的多级并行性;将结果矩阵保存在乘数矩阵中,实现原位计算,节省了存储空间。实验结果表明,提出的向量化方法使三角矩阵乘法性能达到1053.7GFLOPS,效率为91.47%。     

结构体系可靠度计算的矩阵分析方法

本文利用线弹塑性理论及矩阵分析方法。首先给出了平面框架梁元在塑性阶段时单元修正刚度矩阵及等效节点力向量的表达式,并给出了具体的修正赐度矩阵和对应的等效节点力向量。最后,本文给出了梁元截面的通用失效模式表达式,为计算平面刚架结构体系可靠度提供了理论依据。     

横向扰动对超声速混合层被动标量混合影响分析

采用大涡模拟数值计算二维空间发展的超声速混合层,重点分析横向扰动对混合层的标量结构、标量厚度以及标量体积卷吸率的影响。采用理论模型验证了数值方法在计算标量混合特性方面的准确性。结果表明,横向扰动频率和振幅明显影响着混合层的标量增长率和卷吸率。高频扰动增大了混合层近场标量增长率和卷吸率,但是低频扰动改善了混合层远场标量增长率。大尺度涡卷吸过程对混合层标量卷吸率起决定作用。多频扰动有效地增强了超声速混合层的标量混合。     

大型稀疏线性代数迭代库在YH 机上的高效实现

本文讨论了大型稀疏线性代数方程组的迭代算法、加速方法、存贮技术及并行算法。结合向量机特点,采取有效程序优化措施,开发研制了标量和向量库程序。在ＹＨ系列机上试算结果表明：大型稀疏线性代数向量迭代库比标量迭代库速度有较大提高。当Ｎ≥１００时,在ＹＨ─１机上加速比约２～８;在ＹＨ─２机上约２～７;当迭代次数增加时,加速比提高更明显;库中共轭梯度（ＣＧ）加速方法能有效地加快收敛,可减少迭代次数一半以上。     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.