面向大规模集群并行I/O的用户层配置优化策略研究

近年来，大规模并行场景下的I/O性能越来越受到应用科学家的关注。影响应用I/O性能的关键因素主要有三个层次：包括应用的I/O接口实现、体系结构和文件系统组件的性能以及应用的I/O参数配置。本文从应用I/O配置优化的视角，分析了大规模集群并行I/O的配置调优空间，在此基础上，给出了一套大规模集群并行I/O性能特征测试分析方法，基于该方法，在某国产超级计算集群上开展了一系列I/O测试分析来刻画系统的I/O性能特征，进而指导并行应用程序的I/O配置优化。基于优化后的配置参数，在两类典型的并行I/O场景中，针对某类生产应用程序，8192进程下的重启动数据写操作时间下降了15%，4096核的程序作业加载时间从10分钟缩短到了5s。本文提出的I/O配置调优空间及优化方法，可以推广应用到其它同类系统平台，对于大规模集群上的用户层并行I/O配置调优具有借鉴意义。     

基于并行模拟的多核集群系统性能预测和分析

针对多核集群系统所表现出的新的性能特征,提出了面向多核集群系统消息传递应用程序的并行模拟模型并设计、实现了一个并行模拟器MCPSim(Multi-core Cluster Parallel Simulator),MCPSim在功能模型和性能模型上体现了片内核间、结点内片间以及结点间等三个层次上消息通信的特点,同时支持对应用的消息数量、通信量等的百分比分布的profiling功能,采用PRIMEJ、acobi3D、NPB IS以及HPL等Benchmark程序对MCPSim进行了测试,结果表明MCPSim性能预测的精度优于BigSim,同时能够广泛应用于针对多核集群系统消息传递应用程序的性能分析中。     

栅格数据处理中邻域型算法的并行优化方法

随着并行计算的成熟,众多数据密集型的栅格处理算法亟需利用并行计算来缩减执行时间.针对其中一类邻域型算法,构建了用于估计是时间代价的串行/并行时域模型,分析了各个组成的代价影响因素,提出了降低数据I/O代价的并行I/O方法和降低数据通信代价的光圈预测方法.实验证明,所提的两个优化方法可以使邻域型栅格处理算法的并行程序更加充分地利用并行计算资源,进而在一般并行化的基础上进一步提升其并行性能.     

面向I/O优化调度器的磁盘特征提取

外存I/O一直是影响I/O密集型应用系统性能的决定性因素。在系统分析I/O优化调度策略及其对磁盘特征参数的需求的基础上,提出了一组面向I/O优化调度器的磁盘特征抽取方法。这些抽取方法已经被证明是高效的,并且在Traxtents Cello调度器的实现中得到采用。     

面向分层混合存储架构的协同式突发缓冲技术

科学计算产生和分析的数据规模日益增长,高性能计算机的存储系统在体系架构和软件管理方法上面临重大挑战。针对天河-2系统的新型分层混合存储架构,提出一种由应用程序耦合的协同式突发缓冲技术来有效利用其存储资源优势。该方法采用运行时动态耦合的方法,将临近计算任务的分布式高速存储资源聚合成为一个的巨大的协同式突发缓冲区,通过采用文件命名空间投影的映射方法组织全局数据视图,利用位置亲和和感知数据意图的方法来挖掘空间局部性和时间局部性,并利用应用并发度感知的策略优化数据移动效率。天河-2系统的测试结果表明,该方法能够有效优化多种典型应用场景,可获得高可扩展的突发并行输出带宽和稳定的持续并行输出带宽,可显著提升数据分析场景的输入/输出性能,适合应用于大规模超级计算机的存储系统。     

栅格地理数据并行格式转换引擎

如今大规模地理数据正在社会各个部门和组织中迅速积累,但是由于部门利益和历史沿袭等原因,大规模地理数据共享仍然极具挑战,相应共享技术需求仍然极其旺盛。作为地理数据共享的基础方式之一,传统单机地理数据格式转换技术,一方面受限于磁盘读写及带宽瓶颈,另一方面面对日趋庞大的数据规模,已很难满足实际应用需求。因此提出一种针对栅格地理数据的并行格式转换引擎,采用高性能计算集群环境支持大规模栅格地理数据转换共享,大幅降低了大规模栅格地理数据转换过程的时间成本。栅格地理数据并行格式转换引擎采用基于公共接口的设计理念,框架灵活、具有良好的扩展性,支持地理数据格式的读写自定义以及新数据格式添加,能够实现接入数据格式间的任意两两转换。为验证引擎框架及其处理效率,在Lustre并行集群环境下以格网数据交换格式(国家地理空间数据交换格式)向常见栅格地理格式的转换为示例进行了测试实验。结果表明,栅格地理数据并行格式转换引擎能够在8个节点Lustre集群中达到7.54的良好并行加速比。     

一种新型的Free-memory众核处理器片上通信接口

高性能计算机系统越来越多采用集群系统,集群系统的性能极大地依赖于通信接口.基于片外SRAM保存地址变换表的用户级通信方法,极大地增加了芯片和系统的设计复杂度和成本.在传统基于I/O总线的HCA基础上,提出并实现了一种新型的Free-Memory的众核处理器片上通信接口,去掉了本地存储器接口,通过高效的cache管理策略...     

利用汇编程序实现I/O端口操作技术的研究

介绍了如何在Delphi中通过嵌入汇编程序在混合编程时如何传递参数 ;编写了I/O端口操作函数 ,并在此基础上研究了在数据采集的应用中如何根据具体硬件配置 ,用数据采集方法编写各种数据采集的汇编程序 .     

OLE Automation和AutoIt在计算机性能测试中的应用

为满足部队训练用计算机设备选型的需求,文章在训练用计算机性能测试系统中,提出了针对具体应用程序和操作进行性能测试的设计思想和功能实现。运用OLE Automation技术和AutoIt软件,通过编写测试脚本,直接控制目标应用程序的自动运行或目标操作命令的自动执行。通过对脚本的完成时间和运行效果进行有效地测量,最终得到完整的测试结果。通过应用程序测试,能够掌握计算机对特定应用的处理能力和应用水平,反映用户在实际操作时的使用感受。     

(2015GIS)北斗静止轨道卫星信号盲区快速并行解算方法

北斗系统静止轨道卫星信号盲区解算方法复杂、串行计算耗费时间长,需在并行环境下利用更多的计算资源进行北斗盲区的快速解算。本文在分析北斗盲区解算原理与算法并行特征基础上,提出了基于动态盲区影响域的并行解算方法,并以栅格单元为并行粒度进行任务划分,实现了北斗盲区的高效并行解算。基于全国范围59景数字高程模型数据,利用8进程进行盲区并行解算,耗费时间约为5小时。实验测试结果表明：算法的并行效率随着进程数的增加有所衰减,但稳定在96%以上。基于本文方法实现的程序中间件已集成应用于高性能地理信息平台中,应用效果良好。     

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.