Intro
Preface
Organization
Contents
High Performance Computing
TEPUI: High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for Beamlines at LNLS/Sirius
1 Introduction
2 Cluster Subsystems
2.1 High-Performance Computing
2.2 Storage
3 System Access
3.1 Scheduling System
4 Monitoring System
4.1 Infrastructure
5 Conclusion
References
Energy Consumption Studies of WRF Executions with the LIMITLESS Monitor
1 Introduction
2 WRF: The Standard for Weather Simulations
3 The LIMITLESS Monitor
4 Methodology
5 Results
6 Conclusions and Future Work

3.1 Description of the ACDC Methodology
3.2 Case Study: Implementation of the ACDC Methodology
4 Conclusions
References
Understanding COVID-19 Epidemic in Costa Rica Through Network-Based Modeling
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Epidemic Model Simulation
2.2 Corona++ Simulation Framework
2.3 Related Work
3 Modeling
3.1 Characterization
3.2 Calibration and Scenario Setup
4 Results
4.1 Experimental Setup
4.2 Validation
4.3 Evaluation of Scenarios
5 Conclusions and Further Work
References

An Efficient Vectorized Auction Algorithm for Many-Core and Multicore Architectures
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Auction Algorithm
4 Vectorization of the Auction Algorithm for Multicore and Many-Core Architecture
4.1 Vectorization of the bid Phase
4.2 Vectorization of the assign Phase
5 Parallelization of the Auction Algorithm
6 Experimental Analysis
6.1 Experimental Analysis of the Vectorization
6.2 Experimental Analysis of the Parallel Vectorization
7 Conclusions
References
Green Energy HPC Data Centers to Improve Processing Cost Efficiency

1 Introduction
2 Development
3 Results
4 Conclusions
References
DICE: Generic Data Abstraction for Enhancing the Convergence of HPC and Big Data
1 Introduction
2 Data Containers
2.1 Input Containers
2.2 Output Containers
2.3 Storage Support for Containers
2.4 Interface
3 Reduction of I/O Interference
4 Evaluation
5 Related Work
6 Conclusions
References
A Comparative Study of Consensus Algorithms for Distributed Systems
1 Introduction
2 Implementation
2.1 Paxos
2.2 Raft
2.3 Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (pBFT)
3 Results