装备研制项目技术风险评估模型

建立了装备研制项目技术风险评估模型,并用系统分析的方法,实现了对技术风险的动态评估,并以示例进行了验证.     

MPI并行程序中通信等待问题的诊断方法及其应用

随着并行规模的扩大,现有通信等待问题的诊断方法存在内存开销大、测量时间开销大等问题。通过对现有通信等待问题诊断方法的深入分析,同时考虑测量开销可控的实际需求,建立基于热点函数的通信等待问题诊断模型。基于上述模型,总结出一种更精简、更实用的通信等待问题诊断方法。将该诊断方法分别应用到二维LARED集成、LARED-S、LAP3D等大规模MPI并行程序的通信等待问题诊断过程,应用效果表明本诊断方法可精确定位导致通信等待问题的关键代码段,给出的优化方案及性能提升空间对于后续的程序改进具有参考价值,其中根据诊断结果优化后的LARED-S程序性能提升32%,通信等待时间减少44%。     

Reactor-grade plutonium and nuclear weapons: ending the debate

The claim that reactor-grade plutonium cannot or will not be used to produce nuclear weapons has been used to justify non-nuclear-weapon states’ large stockpiles of plutonium that has been separated from highly radioactive spent fuel. However, by using reduced-mass plutonium cores, it is possible to manufacture reliable nuclear weapons with reactor-grade plutonium. These weapons can have the same design, size, weight, and predetonation probability as weapons using weapon-grade plutonium and would require no special cooling. The increased radiation from reactor-grade plutonium could be easily managed by shielding and operational procedures. Weapons using plutonium routinely produced by pressurized-water reactors could have a lethal area between 40 percent and 75 percent that of weapons using weapon-grade plutonium. In the past, both Sweden and Pakistan considered using reactor-grade plutonium to produce nuclear weapons, and India may be using reactor-grade plutonium in its arsenal today. Despite claims to the contrary, the United States used what was truly reactor-grade plutonium in a successful nuclear test in 1962. The capability of reactor-grade plutonium to produce highly destructive nuclear weapons leads to the conclusion that the separation of plutonium, plutonium stockpiling, and the use of plutonium-based fuels must be phased out and banned.     

The assignment of storage locations to containers for a container stack

Assigning storage locations to incoming or reshuffled containers is a fundamental problem essential to the operations efficiency of container terminals. The problem is notoriously hard for its combinatorial and dynamic nature. In this article, we minimize the number of reshuffles in assigning storage locations for incoming and reshuffled export containers. For the static problem to empty a given stack without any new container arrival, the optimum reshuffle sequence is identified by an integer program (IP). The integer program captures the evolution of stack configurations as a function of decisions and is of interest by itself. Heuristics based on the integer program are then derived. Their competitiveness in accuracy and time are established by extensive numerical runs comparing them with existing heuristics in literature and in practice as well as with extensions of the existing heuristics. Variants of the IP‐based heuristics are then applied to the dynamic problem with continual retrievals and arrivals of containers. Again, numerical runs confirm that the IP‐based heuristic is competitive. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2009