...many microprocessors in a single system. Whereas today the large server machines in the business sector may have as many as 32 processors, large supercomputers can have thousands or tens of thousands of processors in a single machine. While this approach has proven itself to be highly effective in expanding the limits of computational capability, it has also brought to the foreground new challenges that did not arise in smaller systems. Fault tolerance is one such critical challenge.The problem of fault tolerance in modern systems arises from two important HPC trends. First is the rising frequency of faults in systems. Second is the increasing size and running times of applications running on these systems, making them more vulnerable to these faults. HPC systems are vulnerable to faults for three major reasons. First, whereas older machines were built from custommade,high-quality components, modern systems use commodity components that were designed and built for a less reliability-aware market. Second, as modern systems are made from more and more components, the probability of one of them failing becomes quite large, even if the individual components are reliable. Finally, as circuit feature sizes become smaller, circuits become increasingly vulnerable to soft, hard and intermittent errors, caused by ambient radiation, temperature fluctuation and other everyday phenomena. The end result is that the largest HPC systems today, such as the ASC systems, have mean times between faults...
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...|2/14 |2/15 |2/16 | |BUS 210 |Post Bio |DQ 1 | |DQ 2 Week 1 Knowledge Check |Business Models and Systems CheckPoint | | | |Week 2 |2/17 |2/18 |2/19 |2/20 |2/21 |2/22 |2/23 | |BUS 210 | | | |Business Organization CheckPoint Week2 Knowledge Check | | |Evolution of Business Presentation | |Week 3 |2/24 |2/25 |2/26 |2/27 |2/28 |3/1 |3/2 | |BUS 210 | |DQ 1 | |DQ 2 Week 3 Knowledge Check |Code of Ethics CheckPoint | | | |Week 4 |3/3 |3/4 |3/5 |3/6 |3/7 |3/8 |3/9 | |BUS 210 | | |Roles and Behaviors CheckPoint |Week 4 Knowledge Check |Four Functions of Management CheckPoint | |SWOT Analysis | |Week 5 |3/10 |3/11 |3/12 |3/13 |3/14 |3/15 |3/16 | |BUS 210 | |DQ 1 | |DQ 2 Week 5 Knowledge Check |Contingency Theory of Leadership CheckPoint | | | |Week 6 |3/17 |3/18 |3/19 |3/20 |3/21 |3/22 |3/23 | |BUS 210 | | | |Motivation and Teams Case Study CheckPoint Week 6 Knowledge Check | | |Job Fair Brochure | |Week 7 |3/24 |3/25 |3/26 |3/27 |3/28 |3/29 |3/30 | |BUS 210 | |DQ 1 | |DQ 2 Week 7 Knowledge Check |The Impact of HRM CheckPoint | | | |Week 8 |3/31 |4/1 |4/2 |4/3 |4/4 |4/5 |4/6 | |BUS 210 | | |IT Applications Presentation CheckPoint |Week 8 Knowledge Check |Hardware/ Software Components CheckPoint | |Developing Good Business Sense | |Week 9 |4/7 |4/8 |4/9 |4/10 |4/11 |4/12 |4/13 | |BUS 210 | | |Capstone Discussion Question |Week 9 Knowledge Check | | |Final Project: Business Portfolio Presentation | |Academic Week |Day 1 |Day 2 |Day 3 |Day 4 |Day 5 |Day...
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...|Axia College/School of Business | | |XBIS/219 | | |Business Information Systems | Copyright © 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides an overview of Business Information Systems. This includes a broad foundation for both technical and nontechnical business professionals. Special emphasis is placed on how information is used by different types of businesses across different industries. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Rainer, R. K., Jr., & Turban, E. (2009). Introduction to information systems: Supporting and transforming...
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... |College of Information Systems & Technology | | |IT/240 Version 4 | | |Intro to LAN Technologies | Copyright © 2012, 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This foundational course covers local area network topics including rationale for networking, the open systems interconnection (OSI) model, common network topologies and architecture, client/server concepts, basic hardware devices and usage, and basic networking security concepts. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Stallings, W. (2009). Business data communications (6th ed.). Upper Saddle...
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...CJS 200 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com CJS 200 Week 1 Checkpoint Criminal Acts and Choice Theories Response CJS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2 CJS 200 Week 2 Checkpoint Crime Reporting and Rates Response CJS 200 Week 2 Assignment Criminal Justice System Paper CJS 200 Week 2 DQ 1 and DQ 2 CJS 200 Week 3 DQs CJS 200 Week 4 Checkpoint Police and Law Enforcement Response CJS 200 Week 4 Assignment Law Enforcement Today Paper CJS 200 Week 4 DQs CJS 200 Week 5 Checkpoint Historical Development Response CJS 200 Week 6 Checkpoint Courtroom Players Response CJS 200 Week 6 DQs CJS 200 Week 6 Assignment Sentencing Paper CJS 200 Week 7 Checkpoint Jails and Prisons Response CJS 200 Week 7 DQs CJS 200 Week 8 Checkpoint Violent Behavior Response CJS 200 Week 8 Assignment Parole and Truth-in-Sentencing Paper CJS 200 Week 8 DQs CJS 200 Week 9 Capstone Analysis CJS 200 Week 9 DQs CJS 200 Week 9 Final Juvenile Crime Paper ----------------------------------------------------------- CJS 200 Week 1 Checkpoint Criminal Acts and Choice Theories Response For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Write a 200- to 300-word response in which you describe choice theories and how they relate to crime. Describe the common models for society to determine which acts are considered criminal. Explain how choice theories of crime affect society. Post your response as an attachment. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment...
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...(Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Diagrams) Checkpoint 1.1 1. Briefly describe the steps of the software engineering life-cycle process. a) Requirements – looking out what the user(client) needs and the problems b) Specification – make an analysis of the requirements. Find out the specifics needs c) Design – after you gather enough information, you design to meet the specification d) Developed – you star to write the software e) Tested – software is turned over to the user to be used in the application f) Maintenance – involves correcting hidden software faults as well as improving the functionality of the software. Checkpoint 1.3 1. What are functional dependencies? Give examples. A functional dependency is a relationship of one attribute or field in a record to another. For example, Social Security Number defines a name. This means that if I have a database with SSNs and names, and if I know someone’s SSN, then I can find their name. Another example would be the Employee’s number, if I know the EmpNo, and then I know the name. 2. What does the augmentative rule state? Give examples. Like the book explain, if. It means that you can add more information to the LHS of an FD and still have the FD be true. An example: If X is customer ID and Y is customer name and Z is birth date, then means that if you are given both a customer ID and a birth date, then it is possible to derive customer name and birth date from that. 3...
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...Checkpoint: Recognizing Differences Melissa Leech ACC/291 04/09/14 Christopher Phillips Checkpoint: Recognizing Differences Valuation is the process of determining the value of an object or a company. You can do this by using the absolute value model, option pricing model, or relative value model. Valuations can be done on assets such as investments in stocks, or intangible assets such as patents and trademarks. The absolute value models determine the present value of an asset. The relative value model determines the value based on the market prices of similar assets. Option pricing models are used for warrants, call options, and etc. (Investopedia.com) Depreciation is a method of allocating the cost of an asset over its life span. This is usually done by businesses for long-term assets for tax and accounting purposes. When determining depreciation for accounting purposes, it indicates how much an assets value is worth. For tax purposes, the business can deduct the cost of the asset. For example, real estate is an asset that can lose value over time. (Investopedia.com). When you use depreciation, it can be acceptable for companies to use two different methods. Many companies use at least two or sometimes more. Depending on what you are depreciating, you can spread it over different amount of years. When the amount of an object begins to decrease or a period of time, it becomes an example of amortization. This process allocates...
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...IBM ® WebSphere ® Redpaper Carla Sadtler Susan Hanson WebSphere Application Server: New Features in V8.5.5 IBM® WebSphere® Application Server helps drive business agility with an innovative, performance-based foundation to build, reuse, run, integrate, and manage service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications and services. From business critical enterprise-wide applications to the smallest departmental level applications, WebSphere Application Server offers reliability, availability, security, and scalability. WebSphere Application Server V8.5 addresses the needs of today’s agile enterprises and developers. It provides increased scalability, resiliency, and security for critical applications, and the flexibility to deploy new offerings quickly and efficiently. It includes a lightweight and powerful, yet simple, application server to satisfy multiple requirements around a simplified “low-end” application environment. For the developer, it provides an improved developer experience and a simplified server configuration that can have multiple versions and be maintained in source control along with the applications. This IBM Redpaper™ publication presents a high-level view of some of the features and enhancements in WebSphere Application Server V8.5. and WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2012, 2013. All rights reserved. ibm.com/redbooks 1 WebSphere Application Server overview Application infrastructure trends show a push towards rapid...
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...Week Six Checkpoint – Systems Development Life Cycle Richard Adams XBIS/219 June 10, 2011 Dr. Shawn Rieder Week Six Checkpoint – Systems Development Life Cycle The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a traditional systems development method that many organizations use for large-scale IT Projects (Rainer & Turban, 2009). The SDLC has a defined structure made up of sequential processes consisting of well-defined tasks. The stages outlined in sequential order that make up the SDLC process are systems investigation, systems analysis, systems design, programming, testing, implementation, operation, and maintenance. Other models exist with the same flow similar to the SDLC structure, but contain either fewer or more steps. Systems investigation is the first stage of the SDLC process with the main task consisting of the feasibility study. According to Rainer and Turban (2009), the feasibility study allows an organization to decide if it should continue using an existing system unchanged, modify or enhance the existing system, or develop a new system. A good example of a system that an organization would conduct a feasibility study on would be an existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (Batada & Rahman, 2011). Once complete, an organization must make a “Go-No-Go” decision and proceed from there. Systems design and systems analysis are the next sequential steps in the SDLC process (Rainer & Turban, 2009). The systems analysis stage...
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...CheckPoint: Information System Business Problem Dimensions There are actually six dimensions to business problems. The six dimensions are operational efficiency; new products, services, and business models; customer and supplier intimacy; improved decision-making, competitive advantage; and survival. The three I will provide examples are operational efficiency, customer and supplier intimacy, and improved decision-making. Businesses continue to search for ways to improve on operational efficiency. Wal-Mart for example, took supportive management, business practices, and information systems and perfected it to gain operational efficiency at its best. New products, services, and business models are tools for information systems and technologies. Apple Inc. took an old way of selling music and improving the way the music is sold. Apple Inc. provided a new service to sell music (a new product) that creates profit for the company. Improved decision-making comes from making an informed decision form the right type of information. Verizon Corporation took a Web-based program to provide its managers precise real-time data to improve decision making in repairing services, improving products, and selling products. Information technology contains all the hardware and software components that a business needs to assist a business in achieving its objectives. These may consist of PDAs, computers, blackberry phones, and many other electrical and computer devices for the hardware department...
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...and communicate results 21 Summary26 Learning checkpoint 1: Communicate organisational mission and goals 27 Topic 2: Influence groups and individuals 31 2A Build others’ trust, confidence and respect 32 2B Embrace, resource and effectively implement improvements to workplace culture 43 2C Demonstrate understanding of the global environment and new technology 47 2D Ensure actions convey flexibility and adaptability to change and accessibility 51 2E Ensure collaborative and effective decision-making 57 2F Ensure the organisation is positively represented 62 Summary64 Learning checkpoint 2: Influence groups and individuals 65 Topic 3: Build and support teams 69 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E Assign accountabilities and responsibilities to teams 70 Ensure teams are resourced to allow them to achieve their objectives 75 Empower teams and individuals through effective delegation and support 78 Create and maintain a positive work environment 83 Encourage teams and individuals to develop innovative approaches to work performance 86 Summary89 Learning checkpoint 3: Build and support teams 90 Unit release 1 (Aspire Version 1.1) © Aspire Training & Consulting v BSBMGT605 Provide leadership across the organisation Topic 4: Demonstrate personal and professional competence 95 4A Model ethical conduct and encourage others to adopt business ethics 96...
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...1. CheckPoint: Business Models and Systems Consider a local business whose services you frequently use. What are the main components of this company's business model? Write a 200- to 300-word response describing the three components of the business system that comprise the local business you selected. Use Figure 1.2 on p. 11 of Introduction to Business as a reference. The three main components of the Centralia Recreational Center are business commerce, business occupation, and business organization. The business commerce of the Centralia Recreational Center would be that citizens of this community and citizens of the surrounding areas can pay a set amount of money periodically to become a member and have full access to all of the features of this business. Of course, the value of this is better fitness and health for the members, and quality family time spent together by exercising, swimming, or participating in certain family oriented activities. The business occupation of the Centralia Recreational Center are the swimming pools, hot tubs, basketball court, running track, weightlifting and fitness room, and some of the classes the business offers for a variety of aerobics and fitness programs for people of all ages. The Centralia Recreational Center also hosts a number of tournaments for basketball, swimming, and volleyball. In my hometown, there are several other businesses that offer similar services to their customers, but none of them have the services that the...
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...performance, and grow profitability. Karim N. Sidi and Dale A. Hutchinson L arge organizations, especially those that have grown through consolidation, mergers, and acquisitions, are often fraught with incompatible systems and data sources that are costly and difficult to manage. The systems usually do not avail efficient extraction, aggregation, and sharing of data within or across the boundaries of the business process. To address this problem, organizations can turn to an information management framework that facilitates managing raw data to create useful information that can be shared across the organization. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2013 INFORMATIONMANAGEMENT 35 sist of a mix of home-grown, functionspecific applications and third-party systems built by disconnected teams without a shared reference for data definition. The solution – forethought and planning to create well-defined data standards – may appear obvious from an architectural perspective but may not be so easy to accomplish. The steps described below will help. Establish Processes, Rules, Policies Identifying the “truth” first and foremost requires that business processes, rules, and policies be clearly defined, shared, and understood inside and outside the organization. Metrics and audit checkpoints must be established to monitor the processes for accuracy and consistency. Map Data Flows The next step is to map the data flow from the source applications to define the required flow from one process step to the...
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...CheckPoint: Business Models and Systems A company’s services I frequently use is Wal-Mart. One of the components of their business system is their competitive advantage. Walmart has been able to provide quality goods at a reasonable price for many years. By doing this it has allowed them to grow at a rapic rate. They have been able to take the basic products sold at high-end stores and sale them to the public at an affordable cost. Another component of their business model is their mission statement which is ("Our mission is to enhance and integrate our supplier diversity programs into all of our procurement practices and to be an advocate for minority- and women-owned businesses."). This is an important component for Wal-Mart because it gives them a plan or course of action to head towards in order to become and stay competitive. What this also does for Wal-Mart is give their suppliers a place to sell their goods and since Wal-Mart has established a name for themselves, it gives their suppliers peace of mind. A third component of Wal-Mart is to build capital. Wal-Mart has been able to do this by taking profits and putting them back into the company. They have created Wal-Mart Superstores which are one-stop-shops which ultimately draw more customers. Customers can purchase everything for their home, kitchen, garden even get their car worked on all in one location. This is a convenience for customers which ultimately prevents them from having to drive to multiple locations...
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...effective communication isn’t talking, it’s listening. A great amount of miscommunication could be avoided if business owners took the time to communicate effectively, first by listening to the needs of their clients and prospects. Remember, your clients may not need you, but you definitely need your clients or you’re going to be out of business. 2. Clarity is Key What may be second nature to you may seem like a foreign concept to some people. When in doubt, leave out the jargon. However, if a client shows interest in understanding the small details, offer the acronym after you’ve explained what it means. The goal here is to be sure your clients understand what you’re specifically discussing. 3. A Message with Confidence Confidence is an essential role in being able to come across as a master of effective communication. If you demonstrate that you aren’t confident in your abilities, people will instinctively think that you lack experience and are bluffing your way. This may result in: A) the client tries to talk you down from your initial quote; B) the client doesn’t hire you at all; C) the client hires you at your original rate but isn’t confident that you can complete the task to his expectations. 4. When You Can’t See Eye-to-Eye It happens - your personality sometimes clashes with that of a client’s. Does this mean you need to immediately end the business relationship? No, it certainly does not. When you can’t see eye to eye with your clients, it’s important...
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