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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Moderators of fatigue: the complexity of interactions

Avin, Keith Gerard 01 May 2012 (has links)
Fatigue is a difficult phenomenon to study because the response can vary based upon task-specific (i.e. contraction type, intensity, position– vs. load-matching and muscle group/joint region) and subject-specific (i.e. sex and age) variables. Although numerous investigations have provided insight into muscle fatigue, further efforts were needed to better characterize the influence of age, sex, joint/muscle group, contraction type, and task complexity have upon fatigue. The primary purpose of this series of three studies was to identify and characterize the influences of potential moderating variables (i.e., sex, joint, age, contraction type, and task complexity) upon fatigue resistance during voluntary muscle contraction fatigue tasks through both empirical (systematic review and meta-analysis) and experimental methods. In general, women demonstrated either the same or better fatigue resistance than men (men never better), the sex advantage was joint specific not systematic, old men were more fatigue resistant than young men, task complexity was not an influential factor and fatigue differences were more readily apparent under isometric conditions. The inclusion of empirical and experimental methods helped clarify the driving factors of localized muscle fatigue. This in turn will better direct future study design and power for mechanistic, training and performance response studies.
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Équilibrage dynamique de charge sur supercalculateur exaflopique appliqué à la dynamique moléculaire / Dynamic load balancing on exaflop supercomputer applied to molecular dynamics

Prat, Raphaël 09 October 2019 (has links)
Dans le contexte de la dynamique moléculaire classique appliquée à la physique de la matière condensée, les chercheurs du CEA étudient des phénomènes physiques à une échelle atomique. Pour cela, il est primordial d'optimiser continuellement les codes de dynamique moléculaire sur les dernières architectures de supercalculateurs massivement parallèles pour permettre aux physiciens d'exploiter la puissance de calcul pour reproduire numériquement des phénomènes physiques toujours plus complexes. Cependant, les codes de simulations doivent être adaptés afin d'équilibrer la répartition de la charge de calcul entre les cœurs d'un supercalculateur.Pour ce faire, dans cette thèse nous proposons d'incorporer la méthode de raffinement de maillage adaptatif dans le code de dynamique moléculaire ExaSTAMP. L'objectif est principalement d'optimiser la boucle de calcul effectuant le calcul des interactions entre particules grâce à des structures de données multi-threading et vectorisables. La structure permet également de réduire l'empreinte mémoire de la simulation. La conception de l’AMR est guidée par le besoin d'équilibrage de charge et d'adaptabilité soulevé par des ensembles de particules se déplaçant très rapidement au cours du temps.Les résultats de cette thèse montrent que l'utilisation d'une structure AMR dans ExaSTAMP permet d'améliorer les performances de celui-ci. L'AMR permet notamment de multiplier par 1.31 la vitesse d'exécution de la simulation d'un choc violent entraînant un micro-jet d'étain de 1 milliard 249 millions d'atomes sur 256 KNLs. De plus, l'AMR permet de réaliser des simulations qui jusqu'à présent n'étaient pas concevables comme l'impact d'une nano-goutte d'étain sur une surface solide avec plus 500 millions d'atomes. / In the context of classical molecular dynamics applied to condensed matter physics, CEA researchers are studying complex phenomena at the atomic scale. To do this, it is essential to continuously optimize the molecular dynamics codes of recent massively parallel supercomputers to enable physicists to exploit their capacity to numerically reproduce more and more complex physical phenomena. Nevertheless, simulation codes must be adapted to balance the load between the cores of supercomputers.To do this, in this thesis we propose to incorporate the Adaptive Mesh Refinement method into the ExaSTAMP molecular dynamics code. The main objective is to optimize the computation loop performing the calculation of particle interactions using multi-threaded and vectorizable data structures. The structure also reduces the memory footprint of the simulation. The design of the AMR is guided by the need for load balancing and adaptability raised by sets of particles moving dynamically over time.The results of this thesis show that using an AMR structure in ExaSTAMP improves its performance. In particular, the AMR makes it possible to execute 1.31 times faster than before the simulation of a violent shock causing a tin microjet of 1 billion 249 million atoms on 256 KNLs. In addition, simulations that were not conceivable so far can be carried out thanks to AMR, such as the impact of a tin nanodroplet on a solid surface with more than 500 million atoms.

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