R. Fornés-Rivera, Marco Antonio Conant-Pablos, Adolfo Cano-Carrasco, Gildardo Guadalupe López-Rojo
{"title":"Implementation of improvement actions in a company that produces frames and moldings","authors":"R. Fornés-Rivera, Marco Antonio Conant-Pablos, Adolfo Cano-Carrasco, Gildardo Guadalupe López-Rojo","doi":"10.35429/jrd.2021.19.7.22.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35429/jrd.2021.19.7.22.30","url":null,"abstract":"This research was developed in a company that manufactures frames and moldings in the production and quality area and addresses the need to implement improvement actions due to rework and low production in the patching workstation, derived from flaws such as poor patching, bump, bubble and porosity in the products. Currently there is a production record of 1.75% and rework of 19.25% in the first hours of the working day. The objective was to implement improvement actions, through the 8D's methodology, to reduce rework and increase production. The procedure implied forming a team; defining the problem; implementing containment actions; identifying and verifying the root cause; determining permanent corrective actions; identifying and implementing permanent corrective actions; preventing the recurrence of the problem and/or root cause, and acknowledging the effort of the team. It contributed with the increase in production and reduction of rework in the patching workstation, thus fulfilling the objective of this research.","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73754888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a convolutional neural network for classification of biomedical signals","authors":"Jaime Jalomo, Edith Preciado, Jorge Gudiño","doi":"10.35429/jrd.2020.17.6.15.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35429/jrd.2020.17.6.15.20","url":null,"abstract":"Biomedical signals are current case of Avant-garde study, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, every day new methods are implemented that are useful for the treatment of this signals, mainly to detect anomalies or diseases with greater precision. A solution on base of the Deep Learning is proposed, this technology has proven to be efficient in handling high-level feature data, in it featured neural networks convolutionals (NNC) which are ideal in image management. In this paper, electrocardiographic signals (ECG) designed from a dynamic mathematical model in a two convolution layer NNC for classification are used.","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85361534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. G. ROSALES-SOSA, Manuel Garcia-Yregoi, Blanca Idalia Rosales-Sosa, R. Servin-Castañeda
{"title":"Synthesis of barium ferrite, using barite mineral ore and a metallurgical waste","authors":"M. G. ROSALES-SOSA, Manuel Garcia-Yregoi, Blanca Idalia Rosales-Sosa, R. Servin-Castañeda","doi":"10.35429/jrd.2019.17.6.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35429/jrd.2019.17.6.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Samples of barite mineral ore, were ground to a mesh of 250, and then were subjected to a leaching stage with hydrochloric acid at different times, then; the leached barite mineral ore was subjected to a carbonation stage controlling different parameters such as pH, temperature, time and speed of agitation. Finally, it was subjected to a sintering stage with the Fe2O3 precursor obtained from the waste powder of the steelmaking company’s rolling process, in a temperature range of 1000 and 1200 ° C, for 12 and 24 times. The materials obtained are characterized by infrared spectroscopy (IR Spectroscopy), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM).","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80699487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface: Summit and Sierra Supercomputers","authors":"","doi":"10.1147/JRD.2020.2976169","DOIUrl":"10.1147/JRD.2020.2976169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1147/JRD.2020.2976169","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41632393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. M. Albrecht;B. Elmegreen;O. Gunawan;H. F. Hamann;L. J. Klein;S. Lu;F. Mariano;C. Siebenschuh;J. Schmude
{"title":"Next-generation geospatial-temporal information technologies for disaster management","authors":"C. M. Albrecht;B. Elmegreen;O. Gunawan;H. F. Hamann;L. J. Klein;S. Lu;F. Mariano;C. Siebenschuh;J. Schmude","doi":"10.1147/JRD.2020.2970903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1147/JRD.2020.2970903","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional geographic information systems (GIS) have been disrupted by the emergence of Big Data in the form of geo-coded raster, vector, and time-series Internet-of-Things data. This article discusses the application of new scalable technologies that go far beyond relational databases and file-based storage on spinning disk or tape to incorporate both storage and processing data in the same platform. The roles of the Apache Hadoop Distributed File Systems and NoSQL key-value stores such as the Apache Hbase are discussed, along with indexing schemes that optimally support geospatial-temporal use. We highlight how this new approach can rapidly search multiple GIS data layers to obtain insights in the context of early warning, impact evaluation, response, and recovery to earthquake and wildfire disasters.","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1147/JRD.2020.2970903","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49980048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication protocol optimization for enhanced GPU performance","authors":"S. S. Sharkawi;G. A. Chochia","doi":"10.1147/JRD.2020.2967311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967311","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. Department of Energy CORAL program systems SUMMIT and SIERRA are based on hybrid servers comprising IBM POWER9 CPUs and NVIDIA V100 graphics processing units (GPUs) connected by two extended data rate (EDR) links to a high-speed InfiniBand Network. A major challenge to the communication software stack is to optimize performance for all combinations of data origin and destination: host or GPU memory, same or different server. Alternate paths exist for routing data from GPU memory. When origin and destination are on different servers, it can be sent either via host memory or bypassing host memory with GPU direct feature. When origin and destination are on the same server, host memory can be bypassed with peer-to-peer inter process communication (IPC). For large messages pipelining makes host memory data path competitive with GPU direct. In this article, we explain the techniques used in Spectrum MPI Parallel Active Message Interface layer to cache memory types and attributes in order to reduce the overhead associated with calling the CUDA application programming interface (API); in addition, we detail the different protocols used for different memory types, device memory, managed memory, and host memory. To illustrate, the caching technique achieved a device-to-device latency improvement of 26% for intranode transfers and 19% for internode transfers.","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49948808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. B. Stunkel;R. L. Graham;G. Shainer;M. Kagan;S. S. Sharkawi;B. Rosenburg;G. A. Chochia
{"title":"The high-speed networks of the Summit and Sierra supercomputers","authors":"C. B. Stunkel;R. L. Graham;G. Shainer;M. Kagan;S. S. Sharkawi;B. Rosenburg;G. A. Chochia","doi":"10.1147/JRD.2020.2967330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967330","url":null,"abstract":"Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit supercomputer and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sierra supercomputer utilize InfiniBand interconnect in a Fat-tree network topology, interconnecting all compute nodes, storage nodes, administration, and management nodes into one linearly scalable network. These networks are based on Mellanox 100-Gb/s EDR InfiniBand ConnectX-5 adapters and Switch-IB2 switches, with compute-rack packaging and cooling contributions from IBM. These devices support in-network computing acceleration engines such as Mellanox Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol, graphics processor unit (GPU) Direct RDMA, advanced adaptive routing, Quality of Service, and other network and application acceleration. The overall IBM Spectrum Message Passing Interface (MPI) messaging software stack implements Open MPI, and was a collaboration between IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA to optimize direct communication between endpoints, whether compute nodes (with IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and flash memory devices), or POWER-hosted storage nodes. The Fat-tree network can isolate traffic among the compute partitions and to/from the storage subsystem, providing more predictable application performance. In addition, the high level of redundancy of this network and its reconfiguration capability ensures reliable high performance even after network component failures. This article details the hardware and software architecture and performance of the networks and describes a number of the high-performance computing (HPC) enhancements engineered into this generation of InfiniBand.","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967330","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49978544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concurrent installation and acceptance of Summit and Sierra supercomputers","authors":"T. Liebsch","doi":"10.1147/JRD.2020.2967270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967270","url":null,"abstract":"The deployment of any high-performance computer systems typically includes an acceptance process to validate the system's specifications, covering hardware, software, and delivered services. In this article, we describe the efforts undertaken by IBM and its partners to accomplish early preparations and then concurrently deliver, stabilize, and accept the two fastest supercomputers in the world at the time of deployment.","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967270","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49948805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Besaw;L. Scheidenbach;J. Dunham;S. Kaur;A. Ohmacht;F. Pizzano;Y. Park
{"title":"Cluster system management","authors":"N. Besaw;L. Scheidenbach;J. Dunham;S. Kaur;A. Ohmacht;F. Pizzano;Y. Park","doi":"10.1147/JRD.2020.2967309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967309","url":null,"abstract":"Cluster system management (CSM) was co-designed with the Department of Energy Labs to provide the support necessary to effectively manage the Summit and Sierra supercomputers. The CSM system administration tools provide a unified view of a large-scale cluster and the ability to examine and understand data from multiple sources. CSM consists of five components: 1) application programming interfaces (APIs) and infrastructure; 2) Big Data Store; 3) support for reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS); 4) Diagnostic and Health Check; and 5) support for job management. APIs and infrastructure provide lightweight daemons for compute nodes, hardware and software inventory collection, job accounting, and RAS. Logs, environmental data, and performance data are collected in the Big Data Store for analysis. RAS events can trigger corrective actions by CSM. Diagnostic and Health Check are provided through a diagnostic framework and test results collection. To support job management, CSM coordinates with the Job Step Manager to provide an overlay network of JSM daemons. CSM is an open source and available at \u0000<uri>https://github.com/IBM/CAST</uri>\u0000. Documentation can be found at \u0000<uri>https://cast.readthedocs.io</uri>\u0000.","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967309","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49948806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Luo;T. P. Straatsma;L. E. Aguilar Suarez;R. Broer;D. Bykov;E. F. D'Azevedo;S. S. Faraji;K. C. Gottiparthi;C. De Graaf;J. A. Harris;R. W. A. Havenith;H. J. Aa. Jensen;W. Joubert;R. K. Kathir;J. Larkin;Y. W. Li;D. I. Lyakh;O. E. B. Messer;M. R. Norman;J. C. Oefelein;R. Sankaran;A. F. Tillack;A. L. Barnes;L. Visscher;J. C. Wells;M. Wibowo
{"title":"Pre-exascale accelerated application development: The ORNL Summit experience","authors":"L. Luo;T. P. Straatsma;L. E. Aguilar Suarez;R. Broer;D. Bykov;E. F. D'Azevedo;S. S. Faraji;K. C. Gottiparthi;C. De Graaf;J. A. Harris;R. W. A. Havenith;H. J. Aa. Jensen;W. Joubert;R. K. Kathir;J. Larkin;Y. W. Li;D. I. Lyakh;O. E. B. Messer;M. R. Norman;J. C. Oefelein;R. Sankaran;A. F. Tillack;A. L. Barnes;L. Visscher;J. C. Wells;M. Wibowo","doi":"10.1147/JRD.2020.2965881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1147/JRD.2020.2965881","url":null,"abstract":"High-performance computing (HPC) increasingly relies on heterogeneous architectures to achieve higher performance. In the Oak Ridge Leadership Facility (OLCF), Oak Ridge, TN, USA, this trend continues as its latest supercomputer, Summit, entered production in early 2019. The combination of IBM POWER9 CPU and NVIDIA V100 GPU, along with a fast NVLink2 interconnect and other latest technologies, pushes system performance to a new height and breaks the exascale barrier by certain measures. Due to Summit's powerful GPUs and much higher GPU–CPU ratio, offloading to accelerators becomes a requirement for any application, which intends to effectively use the system. To facilitate navigating a complex landscape of competing heterogeneous architectures, a collection of applications from a wide spectrum of scientific domains is selected for early adoption on Summit. In this article, the experience and lessons learned are summarized, in the hope of providing useful guidance to address new programming challenges, such as scalability, performance portability, and software maintainability, for future application development efforts on heterogeneous HPC systems.","PeriodicalId":55034,"journal":{"name":"IBM Journal of Research and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1147/JRD.2020.2965881","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49948698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}