New study identifies sequence of critical thresholds for Antarctic ice basins

The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one single tipping element, but as a set of interacting basins with different critical thresholds. This is the finding of a new study by the Potsdam ...
United States Army

U.S. and German Forces Strengthen Interoperability During Joint Small Arms Training

“We’ve decided to conduct a joint small arms training with our German partners in order to develop interoperability, ...
GovCon Wire

NAVSUP Awards 24 Spots on $55B WEXMAC TITUS 2.2 Multiple-Award IDIQ

NAVSUP has awarded 24 firms spots on the $55B WEXMAC TITUS 2.2 contract to provide expeditionary logistics and operational support.
IEEE

MPI+ULT: Overlapping Communication and Computation with User-Level Threads

Abstract: As the core density of future processors keeps increasing, MPI+Threads is becoming a promising programming model for large scale SMP clusters. Generally speaking, hybrid MPI+Threads runtime ...

Jamaica’s multidimensional poverty index, escaping the economic KPI trap—Keenan Falconer

After several years in gestation, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) recently launched Jamaica’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which is intended to provide a complementary measure to ...