Custom computers

To comply with all of the above, copious documentation is required. The trigger is the Customs Tariff Number as soon as it is entered into the customs computer, all the other requirements are highlighted. Any errors in documentation and the goods will, at best, be held up for a week or so, whilst the correct data is supplied. At worst the goods will be seized or destroyed. 

This chapter provides an overview of parallel compufer architectures, including the traditional Flynn classification scheme and a discussion of computation nodes and the networks connecting them. We also present an overall system view of a parallel computer, describing the hierarchical nature of parallel archifecfure, machine reliability, and the distinction between commodity and custom computers. 

Yield to custom computes a yield to call for a call date and a price specified by the user. Typically, a bond does not have one call price but a call schedule which sets forth the call price based on when the issuer can... 

Group three was told to choose on their own the features they wanted on their customized computer. This group did more than ponder options or implment someone else s choices. They actually had to ctoss the Rubicon and make specific decisions to build their customized computer. 

Point-to-point integration Building a customized computer connection. The software for such integration is usually expensive to build and maintain. When systems change on either side of the connection, expensive changes are needed. 

We show here how to determine the number of rows N that can be multiplexed, i.e., the minimum multiplexing duty factor 1/N, from either measurements on actual displays or by computation of the static optical properties of TN-LCDs. We show that the figure of merit M can be decomposed into multiplicative factors Mvf Mq and specifying dependence on voltage, angle and temperature respectively. It is shown that these multiplicative factors permit customizing computations of N to match specific user requirements such as direct viewed or projection displays and temperature compensated or uncompensated drive voltage. 

The Dell Computer Corporation is famous of its direct business model (see Dell and Fredman, 1999) that assembles customized computer systems based on customer orders, and ships directly from the factory to the customers. Based on Kraemer, et. al. (2000), Dell basically segments its customers into Transaction, Relationship, and Public/Intemational customer segments, in which more refined sales channels, including Home Home Office, Small Business, Medium Large Business, State Local Government, Federal Government, Education, Healthcare, are offered at Dell. By doing so, Dell is able to satisfy special needs in each customer channel. 

Helo PT, Xu QL, Kyllonen SJ, Jiao RJ (2010) Integrated vehicle configuration system— connecting the domains of mass customization. Comput Ind 61(1) 44—52... 

Figure 17.13 depicts this case study. The manufacturer and the customer compute optimal configurations based on the same product model. For the customer, a subset of the available configurations is defined. For example, this defines the market offers of the manufacturer. Instead of having different representations of the product portfolio, we show in this case study that manufactures as well as customers can perform their processes on the same product model. 

IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Systems, (FCCM 04) pp. 308-309, 2004... 

Leeser, M., Miller, S., Yu, H. (2004, April). Smart camcaa based on reconfigurable hardware enables diverse real-time applications. In 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2004. FCCM 2004 (pp. 147—155). 

Baker, Z., Gokhale, M., Tripp, J. (2007, April). Matched filtru computation on FPGA, Cell and GPU. In I5th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2007. FCCM 2007 (pp. 207-218). 

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