Abstract Every time there is an epidemic outbreak in some part of the world, billions of dollars are being set aside in anticipation of it spreading to the rest of the world. Various government and non government agencies mobilize resources to prevent and control the expansion of the epidemic by curbing ingress and egress of people from infected location, by launching vaccinations programs and quarantining the suspected. In order to achieve success in their efforts, they need to know what is the...

Abstract Currently, in most software environments, the fundamental tool used by software maintainers to perform system maintenance is the integrated development environment (IDE). The problem with current IDEs is that they have poor usability and offer little design information to the user; this increases the time necessary to perform program comprehension activities. In addition, many systems being maintained are accompanied by poor, if any, design documentation. This, in turn, increases the time...

Abstract FISHES, otherwise known as Fully Implicit Hydrothermal Event Simulator, simulates two-phase fluid flow in a porous matrix saturated with NaCl-H₂0. We discuss the addition of MUMPS, Multifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver, to FISHES. MUMPS is a tool that offers solutions to large linear systems that present complex arithmetic to achieve parallel factorization. We address the use of MPI (Message Passing Interface) and its implmentation with MUMPS to offer a parallel computing...

Abstract The desktop environment has been a standard for all operating systems with a graphical interface. This environment has been designed as a single user single computer paradigm, which could be updated for multiple users on multiple computers based on current technologies of remote desktops and virtualization. This paper proposes an additional application that creates tabs for multiple instances of local, virtual, and remote desktop integration on Linux desktop enviroments. The benefits...