Inputs to Affect Virtual and Real Environments by Coleman, Beth

“…A 3D application design group called green phosphor creates code for translating n-dimensional information into 3D interactive formats for real-time effects. The Parsec voice controller system uses sonic inputs to control 3D graphical objects on the second life virtual platform. …”
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Using Sensor Inputs to Affect Virtual and Real Environments by Coleman, Beth

“…A 3D application design group called green phosphor creates code for translating n-dimensional information into 3D interactive formats for real-time effects. The Parsec voice controller system uses sonic inputs to control 3D graphical objects on the second life virtual platform. …”
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Zooming in on supermassive black holes: how resolving their gas cloud host renders their accretion episodic by Beckmann, R, Devriendt, J, Slyz, A

“…For a pristine gas mix of hydrogen and helium, a slim disc develops around the BH on sub-parsec scales, turning the otherwise chaotic BH accretion duty cycle into an episodic one, with potentially important consequences for BH feedback. …”

A new Fokker-Planck approach for relaxation-driven evolution of galactic nuclei by Vasiliev, E

“…The present-day density profile is consistent with the recently detected mild cusp inside the central parsec, and is weakly sensitive to initial conditions.…”

Black holes, cuspy atmospheres and galaxy formation. by Binney, J

“…The ability of energy released on the sub-parsec scale of the BH to balance cooling on scales of several tens of kiloparsecs arises through a combination of the temperature sensitivity of the accretion rate and the way in which the radius of jet disruption varies with ambient density. …”

Multiple supermassive black hole systems: SKA’s future leading role by Deane, R, Paragi, Z, Jarvis, M, Coriat, M, Bernardi, G, Frey, S, Heywood, I, Klöckner, H

“…The combination of direct imaging at high angular resolution; low-surface brightness radio-jet tracers; and pulsar timing arrays will allow the SKA to trace black hole binary evolution from separations of a galaxy virial radius down to the sub-parsec level. This large dynamic range in binary SMBH separation will ensure that the SKA plays a leading role in this observational frontier.…”

Q-Selector-Based Prefetching Method for DRAM/NVM Hybrid Main Memory System by Jeong-Geun Kim, Shin-Dug Kim, Su-Kyung Yoon

“…We evaluate the Q-selector-based prefetching method with workloads from data mining and data-intensive benchmark applications, PARSEC-3.0 and graphBIG. Our evaluation results show that the system achieves approximately 31% performance improvement and increases the hit ratio of the DRAM-cache layer by 46% on average compared to a PCM-only main memory system. …”
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Low-Complexity Run-time Management of Concurrent Workloads for Energy-Efficient Multi-Core Systems by Ali Aalsaud, Fei Xia, Ashur Rafiev, Rishad Shafik, Alexander Romanovsky, Alex Yakovlev

“…Based on experimenting with PARSEC applications on an Odroid XU-3 and Intel Core i7 platforms, we model power normalized performance (in terms of instruction per second (IPS)/Watt) through multivariate linear regression (MLR). …”
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Unstable Mass Transfer from a Main-sequence Star to a Supermassive Black Hole and Quasiperiodic Eruptions by Itai Linial, Re’em Sari

“…We show that such systems are naturally produced by two-body gravitational encounters within the inner parsec of a galaxy, followed by gravitational-wave circularization and inspiral from initially highly eccentric orbits. …”
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The Environments around W Serpentis Systems: Independent Limits on System Masses and Extended Envelopes by T. J. Davidge

“…While some of the binary systems have proper motions that are distinct from those of the majority of stars within the search area, there is a tendency for W Ser stars to be accompanied by companions with separations on parsec or larger scales. At least three candidate companions are identified within the search area for each system, although in the majority of cases the numbers are much higher. …”
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A Walk through AGN Country—For the Somewhat Initiated! by Robert R. J. Antonucci

“…Next, I explain a very robust derivation of the reddening law for nuclear dust, which reveals a dearth of small grains on parsec scales. Then, the quasistatic thin accretion disk model, thought by many to explain the energetically dominant optical/UV continuum, is thoroughly debunked. …”
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BOOM: Broadcast Optimizations for On-chip Meshes by Krishna, Tushar, Beckmann, Bradford M., Peh, Li-Shiuan, Reinhardt, Steven K.

“…Evaluations using synthetic traffic show BOOM achieving a latency reduction of 61%, throughput improvement of 63%, and buffer power reduction of 80% as compared to a baseline broadcast. Simulations with PARSEC benchmarks show BOOM reducing average request and network latency by 40% and 15% respectively.…”
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SEEC: A General and Extensible Framework for Self-Aware Computing by Hoffmann, Henry, Maggio, Martina, Santambrogio, Marco D., Leva, Alberto, Agarwal, Anant

“…SEEC is used to build an adaptive system that optimizes performance per Watt for the PARSEC benchmarks on multiple machines, achieving results as least 1.65x better than a classical control system. …”
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Towards simulating star formation in the interstellar medium by Slyz, A, Devriendt, J, Bryan, G, Silk, J

“…As a first step to a more complete understanding of the local physical processes which determine star formation rates (SFRs) in the interstellar medium (ISM), we have performed controlled numerical experiments consisting of hydrodynamical simulations of a kilo-parsec scale, periodic, highly supersonic and "turbulent" three-dimensional flow. …”

Satellite survival in highly resolved Milky Way class haloes by Geen, S, Slyz, A, Devriendt, J

“…Our set of cosmological hydrodynamic Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulations, called the NUT suite, allows us to investigate the effect of supernova feedback and UV photoionisation at high redshift with sub-parsec resolution. We subsequently follow the effect of interactions with the Milky Way-like halo using a lower spatial resolution (50pc) version of the simulation down to <i>z</i>=0. …”

Emergence and cosmic evolution of the Kennicutt–Schmidt relation driven by interstellar turbulence by Kraljic, K, Renaud, F, Dubois, Y, Pichon, C, Agertz, O, Andersson, E, Devriendt, J, Freundlich, J, Kaviraj, S, Kimm, T, Martin, G, Peirani, S, Otero, ÁS, Volonteri, M, Yi, SK

“…With decreasing redshift, the number of outliers with short depletion times diminishes, reducing the scatter of the KS relation, while the overall population of galaxies shifts toward low densities. Our results, from parsec-scale star formation models calibrated with local Universe physics, demonstrate that the cosmological evolution of the environmental (e.g., mergers) and internal conditions (e.g., gas fractions) conspire to shape the KS relation. …”

Statistical properties of the population of the Galactic centre filaments – II. The spacing between filaments by Yusef-Zadeh, F, Arendt, RG, Wardle, M, Boldyrev, S, Heywood, I, Cotton, W, Camilo, F

“…In this picture, the mean spacing and the mean width of the filaments are expected to be a fraction of a parsec, consistent with observed spacing.…”

Evolution of Density Perturbations in a Cylindrical Molecular Cloud Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics by Nejad-Asghar, M., Soltani, J.

“…Molecular clouds have a hierarchical structure from few tens of parsecs for giants to few tenth of a parsec for proto-stellar cores. …”
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Using Code Perforation to Improve Performance, Reduce Energy Consumption, and Respond to Failures by Hoffmann, Henry, Misailovic, Sasa, Sidiroglou, Stelios, Agarwal, Anant, Rinard, Martin

“…We have used SpeedPress to automatically apply code perforation to applications from the PARSEC benchmark suite. The results show that the transformed applications can run as much as two to three times faster than the original applications while distorting the output by less than 10%. …”
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A comparative study of intervening and associated H I 21-cm absorption profiles in redshifted galaxies by Curran, S, Duchesne, S, Divoli, A, Allison, J

“…Modelling the column density distribution of the mean associated and intervening spectra, we confirm that the additional low optical depth, wide dispersion component, typical of associated absorbers, arises from gas within the inner parsec. With regard to the potential of predicting the absorber type in the absence of optical spectroscopy, we have implemented machine learning techniques to the 55 associated and 43 intervening spectra, with each of the tested models giving a ≳ 80 per cent accuracy in the prediction of the absorber type. …”