Topic
Asterism (typography)
About: Asterism (typography) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26 publications have been published within this topic receiving 101 citations.
Papers
TL;DR: By matching low-relief carvings on some of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe to star asterisms, compelling evidence is found that the famous ‘Vulture Stone’ is a date stamp for 10950 BC ± 250 yrs, which corresponds closely to the proposed Younger Dryas event.
Abstract: We have interpreted much of the symbolism of Göbekli Tepe in terms of astronomical events. By matching low-relief carvings on some of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe to star asterisms we find compelling evidence that the famous ‘Vulture Stone’ is a date stamp for 10950 BC ± 250 yrs, which corresponds closely to the proposed Younger Dryas event, estimated at 10890 BC. We also find evidence that a key function of Göbekli Tepe was to observe meteor showers and record cometary encounters. Indeed, the people of Göbekli Tepe appear to have had a special interest in the Taurid meteor stream, the same meteor stream that is proposed as responsible for the Younger-Dryas event. Is Göbekli Tepe the ‘smoking gun’ for the Younger-Dryas cometary encounter, and hence for coherent catastrophism?
20 citations
13 Nov 2016
TL;DR: Experimental results shows how Asterism successfully and efficiently exploits combinations of diverse computational platforms, whereas DIaaS delivers specialized software to execute data-intensive applications in a scalable, efficient, and robust way reducing the engineering time and computational cost.
Abstract: We present Asterism, an open source data-intensive framework, which combines the strengths of traditional workflow management systems with new parallel stream-based dataflow systems to run data-intensive applications across multiple heterogeneous resources, without users having to: re-formulate their methods according to different enactment engines; manage the data distribution across systems; parallelize their methods; co-place and schedule their methods with computing resources; and store and transfer large/small volumes of data. We also present the Data-Intensive workflows as a Service (DIaaS) model, which enables easy data-intensive workflow composition and deployment on clouds using containers. The feasibility of Asterism and DIaaS model have been evaluated using a real domain application on the NSF-Chameleon cloud. Experimental results shows how Asterism successfully and efficiently exploits combinations of diverse computational platforms, whereas DIaaS delivers specialized software to execute data-intensive applications in a scalable, efficient, and robust way reducing the engineering time and computational cost.
19 citations
TL;DR: A green transparent-translucent mineral, which when cabochon-cut as a gemstone may show some asterism, has been found in the gem pits of Eheliyagoda, Raknapura district, Ceylon and was originally found there by Mr. F. L. D. Ekanayake as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: SINCE 1953, several specimens, the largest about 44 gm., of a green transparent–translucent mineral, which when cabochon-cut as a gemstone may show some asterism, have reached Europe. The mineral occurs in the gem pits of Eheliyagoda, Raknapura district, Ceylon, and was originally found there by Mr. F. L. D. Ekanayake, who suspected that it might be a new species. This has now been confirmed by chemical and physical study, of which the principal results are given here.
12 citations
Journal Article•
9 citations
Patent•
25 Mar 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, a virtual bus-based distributed asterism network resource management method is proposed, which comprises a first step that all resources, including frequency, power, time slot, wave beam, a repeater, computing, storage, antennas and so on, are gathered in a distributed registration service center through the virtual bus, so as to form a unified resource pool to be dispatched and allocated uniformly by a specific resource management unit, and a second step that after communication is finished, the user releases satellite resources according to a specific strategy.
Abstract: The invention relates to resource management technologies in the satellite communication field, and discloses a virtual bus-based distributed asterism network resource management method. The method comprises a first step that all resources in the distributed asterism network, including frequency, power, time slot, wave beam, a repeater, computing, storage, antennas and so on, are gathered in a distributed registration service center through the virtual bus, so as to form a unified resource pool to be dispatched and allocated uniformly by a specific resource management unit; a second step that a user sends a resource request, the resource management unit makes a resource allocation strategy according to a certain criterion in the resource pool, and broadcasts the strategy to all resource service nodes, a user and the registration service center, the resource service nodes allocate the resource according to the strategy, and the registration service center updates the state of the resource pool through the virtual bus; and a third step that after communication is finished, the user releases satellite resources according to a specific strategy. Through adoption of the method, the asterism resources are unified, so that optimum allocation of the network source is easy to realize.
8 citations
Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
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| 2019 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 |