This document describes the PRISMS-PF phase field modeling framework. It provides an overview of PRISMS-PF capabilities including its high performance, support for a wide range of phase field models, and open source licensing. It also discusses new features such as explicit nucleation modeling using classical nucleation theory, grain remapping, and integration with Materials Commons. Finally, it outlines upcoming sections on explicit nucleation implementation and 2D simulations of precipitation in an Mg-Nd alloy.
Computational Performance of Phase Field Calculations using a Matrix-Free (Su...Stephen DeWitt
Comparison of the performance of the PRISMS-PF finite element phase field code vs. a standard finite difference code. Performance is compared for an Ostwald Ripening test case and PFHub Benchmark Problem #7b (MMS Allen-Cahn). These tests demonstrate that PRISMS-PF is several times faster than a standard finite difference code.
Comparing reinforcement learning and access points with rowelijcseit
Due to the fast development of the Cloud Computing technologies, the rapid increase of cloud services
are became very remarkable. The fact of integration of these services with many of the modern
enterprises cannot be ignored. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, SalesForce.com and the other leading IT
companies are entered the field of developing these services. This paper presents a comprehensive survey
of current cloud services, which are divided into eleven categories. Also the most famous providers for
these services are listed. Finally, the Deployment Models of Cloud Computing are mentioned and briefly
discussed.
Computational Performance of Phase Field Calculations using a Matrix-Free (Su...Stephen DeWitt
Comparison of the performance of the PRISMS-PF finite element phase field code vs. a standard finite difference code. Performance is compared for an Ostwald Ripening test case and PFHub Benchmark Problem #7b (MMS Allen-Cahn). These tests demonstrate that PRISMS-PF is several times faster than a standard finite difference code.
Comparing reinforcement learning and access points with rowelijcseit
Due to the fast development of the Cloud Computing technologies, the rapid increase of cloud services
are became very remarkable. The fact of integration of these services with many of the modern
enterprises cannot be ignored. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, SalesForce.com and the other leading IT
companies are entered the field of developing these services. This paper presents a comprehensive survey
of current cloud services, which are divided into eleven categories. Also the most famous providers for
these services are listed. Finally, the Deployment Models of Cloud Computing are mentioned and briefly
discussed.
New implementations for concurrent computing applications of 3D networks using corresponding nano and field-emission controlled-switching components are introduced. The developed implementations are performed within 3D lattice-based systems to perform the required concurrent computing. The introduced 3D systems utilize recent findings in field-emission and nano applications to implement the function of the basic 3D lattice networks using nano controlled-switching. This includes ternary lattice computing via carbon nanotubes and carbon field-emission techniques. The presented realization of lattice networks can be important for several reasons including the reduction of power consumption, which is an important specification for the system design in several future and emerging technologies, and in achieving high performance and reliability realizations. The introduced implementations for 3D lattice computations, with 2D lattice networks as a special case, are also important for the design within modern technologies that require optimal design specifications of high speed, high regularity and ease-of-manufacturability, such as in highly-reliable error-correcting signal processing applications.
Deep neural networks (DNN) have recently shown promising performances in various areas. Although DNNs are very powerful, a large number of network parameters requires substantial storage and memory bandwidth which hinders them from being applied to actual embedded systems. Many researchers have sought ways of model compression to reduce the size of a network with minimal performance degradation. Among them, a method called knowledge transfer is to train the student network with a stronger teacher network. In this paper, we propose a method to overcome the limitations of conventional knowledge transfer methods and improve the performance of a student network. An auto-encoder is used in an unsupervised manner to extract compact factors which are defined as compressed feature maps of the teacher network. When using the factors to train the student network, we observed that the performance of the student network becomes better than the ones with other conventional knowledge transfer methods because factors contain paraphrased compact information of the teacher network that is easy for the student network to understand.
Introduction to Wavelet Transform and Two Stage Image DE noising Using Princi...ijsrd.com
In past two decades there are various techniques are developed to support variety of image processing applications. The applications of image processing include medical, satellite, space, transmission and storage, radar and sonar etc. But noise in image effect all applications. So it is necessary to remove noise from image. There are various methods and techniques are there to remove noise from images. Wavelet transform (WT) has been proved to be effective in noise removal but this have some problems that is overcome by PCA method. This paper presents an efficient image de-noising scheme by using principal component analysis (PCA) with local pixel grouping (LPG). This method provides better preservation of image local structures. In this method a pixel and its nearest neighbors are modeled as a vector variable whose training samples are selected from the local window by using block matching based LPG. In image de-noising, a compromise has to be found between noise reduction and preserving significant image details. PCA is a statistical technique for simplifying a dataset by reducing datasets to lower dimensions. It is a standard technique commonly used for data reduction in statistical pattern recognition and signal processing. This paper proposes a de-noising technique by using a new statistical approach, principal component analysis with local pixel grouping (LPG). This procedure is iterated second time to further improve the de-noising performance, and the noise level is adaptively adjusted in the second stage.
○ 개요
현재 많은 연구자들이 network를 깊고 넓게 설계함으로써 높은 인식률을 갖는 네트워크를 얻고 있다. Network의 크기가 증가하면서 parameter와 computation의 수가 증가하게 되었고, 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 pruning을 기반으로 한 압축 알고리즘들이 제안되어 왔다. 하지만 이러한 방법을 이용하여서는 network architecture자체를 바꿀 수 없기 때문에, 구조에서 오는 한계점들은 해결할 수 없었다.
Network recasting은 구조의 특성으로 인하여 발생하는 한계들을 해결하기 위하여 network architecture 자체를 바꾸는 방법이다. Network recasting을 이용하면 network를 구성하고있는 block들을 다른 형태의 block으로 변환을 할 수 있게 된다. Block-wise recasting 방법을 사용하여 각 block들을 변환할 수 있고, 해당 방법을 연속하여 적용함으로써 전체 network의 구조를 바꿀 수 있다. Sequential recasting 방법을 이용하게 되면 inference accuracy를 더욱 잘 보존할 수 있고, 또한 network architecture에 상관 없이 vanishing gradient problem을 완화 시킬 수 있다. Network recasting을 같은 network architecture에 적용하게 되면 parameter와 computation을 줄이는 효과를 얻을 수 있고, 다른 종류의 network architecture로 변환하게 되면 network를 가속시킬 수 있다. 이러한 경우에는 network architecture 자체를 변경할 수 있기 때문에 구조적 한계보다 더 높은 속도 향상을 얻을 수 있다.
Design of magnetic dipole based 3D integration nano-circuits for future elect...VIT-AP University
Nano Magnetic Logic (NML) has been attracting application in optical computing, nanodevice formation, and low power. In this paper nanoscale architecture such as the decoder, multiplexer, and comparator are implemented on perpendicular-nano magnetic logic (pNML) technology. All these architectures with the superiority of minimum complexity and minimum delay are pointed. The proposed architectures have been designed using pNML in MagCAD tool, simulated with modelsim platform and correctness shown by simulation waveform. The correctness of these designs can be verified easily when Verilog code is generated from MagCAD tool. The performance of the proposed comparator towards default parameters shows the area of 2.4336 μm2 and critical path of 1.5E-7 sec. As a higher order, the realization of a 4-to-1 multiplexer in NML has also been included in this work.
Style transfer aims to combine the content of one image with the artistic style of another. It was discovered that lower levels of convolutional networks captured style information, while higher levels captures content information. The original style transfer formulation used a weighted combination of VGG-16 layer activations to achieve this goal. Later, this was accomplished in real-time using a feed-forward network to learn the optimal combination of style and content features from the respective images. The first aim of our project was to introduce a framework for capturing the style from several images at once. We propose a method that extends the original real-time style transfer formulation by combining the features of several style images. This method successfully captures color information from the separate style images. The other aim of our project was to improve the temporal style continuity from frame to frame. Accordingly, we have experimented with the temporal stability of the output images and discussed the various available techniques that could be employed as alternatives.
PSO-based Training, Pruning, and Ensembling of Extreme Learning Machine RBF N...ijceronline
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER) is dedicated to protecting personal information and will make every reasonable effort to handle collected information appropriately. All information collected, as well as related requests, will be handled as carefully and efficiently as possible in accordance with IJCER standards for integrity and objectivity.
This is a presentation by Prof. Anne Elster at the International Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing held in conjunction with the 2017 ISC High Performance Computing Conference.
New implementations for concurrent computing applications of 3D networks using corresponding nano and field-emission controlled-switching components are introduced. The developed implementations are performed within 3D lattice-based systems to perform the required concurrent computing. The introduced 3D systems utilize recent findings in field-emission and nano applications to implement the function of the basic 3D lattice networks using nano controlled-switching. This includes ternary lattice computing via carbon nanotubes and carbon field-emission techniques. The presented realization of lattice networks can be important for several reasons including the reduction of power consumption, which is an important specification for the system design in several future and emerging technologies, and in achieving high performance and reliability realizations. The introduced implementations for 3D lattice computations, with 2D lattice networks as a special case, are also important for the design within modern technologies that require optimal design specifications of high speed, high regularity and ease-of-manufacturability, such as in highly-reliable error-correcting signal processing applications.
Deep neural networks (DNN) have recently shown promising performances in various areas. Although DNNs are very powerful, a large number of network parameters requires substantial storage and memory bandwidth which hinders them from being applied to actual embedded systems. Many researchers have sought ways of model compression to reduce the size of a network with minimal performance degradation. Among them, a method called knowledge transfer is to train the student network with a stronger teacher network. In this paper, we propose a method to overcome the limitations of conventional knowledge transfer methods and improve the performance of a student network. An auto-encoder is used in an unsupervised manner to extract compact factors which are defined as compressed feature maps of the teacher network. When using the factors to train the student network, we observed that the performance of the student network becomes better than the ones with other conventional knowledge transfer methods because factors contain paraphrased compact information of the teacher network that is easy for the student network to understand.
Introduction to Wavelet Transform and Two Stage Image DE noising Using Princi...ijsrd.com
In past two decades there are various techniques are developed to support variety of image processing applications. The applications of image processing include medical, satellite, space, transmission and storage, radar and sonar etc. But noise in image effect all applications. So it is necessary to remove noise from image. There are various methods and techniques are there to remove noise from images. Wavelet transform (WT) has been proved to be effective in noise removal but this have some problems that is overcome by PCA method. This paper presents an efficient image de-noising scheme by using principal component analysis (PCA) with local pixel grouping (LPG). This method provides better preservation of image local structures. In this method a pixel and its nearest neighbors are modeled as a vector variable whose training samples are selected from the local window by using block matching based LPG. In image de-noising, a compromise has to be found between noise reduction and preserving significant image details. PCA is a statistical technique for simplifying a dataset by reducing datasets to lower dimensions. It is a standard technique commonly used for data reduction in statistical pattern recognition and signal processing. This paper proposes a de-noising technique by using a new statistical approach, principal component analysis with local pixel grouping (LPG). This procedure is iterated second time to further improve the de-noising performance, and the noise level is adaptively adjusted in the second stage.
○ 개요
현재 많은 연구자들이 network를 깊고 넓게 설계함으로써 높은 인식률을 갖는 네트워크를 얻고 있다. Network의 크기가 증가하면서 parameter와 computation의 수가 증가하게 되었고, 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 pruning을 기반으로 한 압축 알고리즘들이 제안되어 왔다. 하지만 이러한 방법을 이용하여서는 network architecture자체를 바꿀 수 없기 때문에, 구조에서 오는 한계점들은 해결할 수 없었다.
Network recasting은 구조의 특성으로 인하여 발생하는 한계들을 해결하기 위하여 network architecture 자체를 바꾸는 방법이다. Network recasting을 이용하면 network를 구성하고있는 block들을 다른 형태의 block으로 변환을 할 수 있게 된다. Block-wise recasting 방법을 사용하여 각 block들을 변환할 수 있고, 해당 방법을 연속하여 적용함으로써 전체 network의 구조를 바꿀 수 있다. Sequential recasting 방법을 이용하게 되면 inference accuracy를 더욱 잘 보존할 수 있고, 또한 network architecture에 상관 없이 vanishing gradient problem을 완화 시킬 수 있다. Network recasting을 같은 network architecture에 적용하게 되면 parameter와 computation을 줄이는 효과를 얻을 수 있고, 다른 종류의 network architecture로 변환하게 되면 network를 가속시킬 수 있다. 이러한 경우에는 network architecture 자체를 변경할 수 있기 때문에 구조적 한계보다 더 높은 속도 향상을 얻을 수 있다.
Design of magnetic dipole based 3D integration nano-circuits for future elect...VIT-AP University
Nano Magnetic Logic (NML) has been attracting application in optical computing, nanodevice formation, and low power. In this paper nanoscale architecture such as the decoder, multiplexer, and comparator are implemented on perpendicular-nano magnetic logic (pNML) technology. All these architectures with the superiority of minimum complexity and minimum delay are pointed. The proposed architectures have been designed using pNML in MagCAD tool, simulated with modelsim platform and correctness shown by simulation waveform. The correctness of these designs can be verified easily when Verilog code is generated from MagCAD tool. The performance of the proposed comparator towards default parameters shows the area of 2.4336 μm2 and critical path of 1.5E-7 sec. As a higher order, the realization of a 4-to-1 multiplexer in NML has also been included in this work.
Style transfer aims to combine the content of one image with the artistic style of another. It was discovered that lower levels of convolutional networks captured style information, while higher levels captures content information. The original style transfer formulation used a weighted combination of VGG-16 layer activations to achieve this goal. Later, this was accomplished in real-time using a feed-forward network to learn the optimal combination of style and content features from the respective images. The first aim of our project was to introduce a framework for capturing the style from several images at once. We propose a method that extends the original real-time style transfer formulation by combining the features of several style images. This method successfully captures color information from the separate style images. The other aim of our project was to improve the temporal style continuity from frame to frame. Accordingly, we have experimented with the temporal stability of the output images and discussed the various available techniques that could be employed as alternatives.
PSO-based Training, Pruning, and Ensembling of Extreme Learning Machine RBF N...ijceronline
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER) is dedicated to protecting personal information and will make every reasonable effort to handle collected information appropriately. All information collected, as well as related requests, will be handled as carefully and efficiently as possible in accordance with IJCER standards for integrity and objectivity.
This is a presentation by Prof. Anne Elster at the International Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing held in conjunction with the 2017 ISC High Performance Computing Conference.
In this deck from the HPC User Forum at Argonne, Andrew Siegel from Argonne presents: ECP Application Development.
"The Exascale Computing Project is accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem for breakthroughs in scientific discovery, energy assurance, economic competitiveness, and national security. ECP is chartered with accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem to provide breakthrough modeling and simulation solutions to address the most critical challenges in scientific discovery, energy assurance, economic competitiveness, and national security. This role goes far beyond the limited scope of a physical computing system. ECP’s work encompasses the development of an entire exascale ecosystem: applications, system software, hardware technologies and architectures, along with critical workforce development."
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Opening Keynote Lecture
15th Annual ON*VECTOR International Photonics Workshop
Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute
University of California, San Diego
February 29, 2016
How HPC and large-scale data analytics are transforming experimental scienceinside-BigData.com
In this deck from DataTech19, Debbie Bard from NERSC presents: Supercomputing and the scientist: How HPC and large-scale data analytics are transforming experimental science.
"Debbie Bard leads the Data Science Engagement Group NERSC. NERSC is the mission supercomputing center for the USA Department of Energy, and supports over 7000 scientists and 700 projects with supercomputing needs. A native of the UK, her career spans research in particle physics, cosmology and computing on both sides of the Atlantic. She obtained her PhD at Edinburgh University, and has worked at Imperial College London as well as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the USA, before joining the Data Department at NERSC, where she focuses on data-intensive computing and research, including supercomputing for experimental science and machine learning at scale."
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Dr. Fariba Fahroo presents an overview of her program, Computational Mathematics, at the AFOSR 2013 Spring Review. At this review, Program Officers from AFOSR Technical Divisions will present briefings that highlight basic research programs beneficial to the Air Force.
This Presentation was prepared by Abdussamad Muntahi for the Seminar on High Performance Computing on 11/7/13 (Thursday) Organized by BRAC University Computer Club (BUCC) in collaboration with BRAC University Electronics and Electrical Club (BUEEC).
40 Powers of 10 - Simulating the Universe with the DiRAC HPC Facilityinside-BigData.com
In this deck from the Swiss HPC Conference, Mark Wilkinson presents: 40 Powers of 10 - Simulating the Universe with the DiRAC HPC Facility.
"DiRAC is the integrated supercomputing facility for theoretical modeling and HPC-based research in particle physics, and astrophysics, cosmology, and nuclear physics, all areas in which the UK is world-leading. DiRAC provides a variety of compute resources, matching machine architecture to the algorithm design and requirements of the research problems to be solved. As a single federated Facility, DiRAC allows more effective and efficient use of computing resources, supporting the delivery of the science programs across the STFC research communities. It provides a common training and consultation framework and, crucially, provides critical mass and a coordinating structure for both small- and large-scale cross-discipline science projects, the technical support needed to run and develop a distributed HPC service, and a pool of expertise to support knowledge transfer and industrial partnership projects. The on-going development and sharing of best-practice for the delivery of productive, national HPC services with DiRAC enables STFC researchers to produce world-leading science across the entire STFC science theory program."
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
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Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
Using an Explicit Nucleation Model in PRISIMS-PF to Predict Precipate Microstrucutures
1. Center for PRedictive Integrated
Structural Materials Science
Using an Explicit Nucleation Model
in PRISMS-PF to Predict Precipitate
Microstructures
Stephen DeWitt
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Phase Field Workshop VII
2. Center for PRedictive Integrated
Structural Materials Science
Part 1:
Overview of PRISMS-PF and new features
Part 2:
Discussion on explicit nucleation models for phase field
simulations and implementation in PRISMS-PF
Part 3:
2D simulations of nucleation, growth, and coarsening in
an Mg-Nd alloy
3. Center for PRedictive Integrated
Structural Materials Science
Lead Developer:
Stephen DeWitt1
PRISMS-PFAn Open-Source Phase Field Modeling Framework
Associated PRISMS Faculty:
Katsuyo Thornton1
Primary Contributors:
Shiva Rudraraju2*, Larry Aagesen1**,
David Montiel1, and Beck Andrews1
1. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of
Michigan
2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
* (Now at the University of Wisconsin) ** (Now at Idaho National Laboratory)
4. Center for PRedictive Integrated
Structural Materials Science
What’s hard about writing a phase
field code?
1. Wide diversity of models and coupled physics
makes code reuse difficult
No real “typical”
governing equations
Large variety of
formulations and
terms
5. Center for PRedictive Integrated
Structural Materials Science
What’s hard about writing a phase
field code?
2. Simulating large, physically representative
systems is computationally intensive
Simulations often take days on
10s-100s of cores
Simulations are often done in 2D
for tractability
Physical fidelity requires strong
numerical performance
nersc.gov
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Four Principles Guiding PRISMS-PF
Development
1. Its computational performance, including
parallel scalability, should meet or exceed that
of typical phase field codes
2. It should accommodate a wide variety of phase
field models and applications
3. The interface for creating or modifying
governing equations should be simple, quick,
and separate from the numerics
4. It should be open source with a permissive
license so it is available to everyone and
advances can be shared by the community
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User-Friendly:
Simple interface to solve
an arbitrary number of
coupled PDEs
Detailed online user guide
24 applications to get you
started
Simple Docker-based
installation
High-Performance:
Ideal scaling for >1,000
processors
Improved performance
over finite difference
(approx. 10x w/o adaptive
meshing, 100+ x w/
adaptive meshing)
An Open Source, Finite Element,
General Purpose Phase-Field Platform
(github.com/prisms-center/phaseField)
PRISMS-PFAn Open-Source Phase Field Modeling Framework
Advanced Capabilities:
Matrix-free finite element
approach
High-order elements
Hybrid parallelization:
MPI/Threads/Vectorization
Adaptive meshing
Explicit nucleus placement
Grain-remapping
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PRISMS-PF Performance:
Matrix-Free Approach
• Leverages the matrix-free finite element capabilities of the deal.II library
• Cell-based strategy eliminates the need for a sparse matrix
– Operator instead applied element-by-element
– Unit cell operations same for all cells permitting vectorization
• Sum factorization
– Restructuring of the operation as the tensor product of 1D operations
• Gauss-Lobatto elements
– Uses the same points for support and quadrature
– Diagonal “mass matrix” enables explicit time stepping without “mass
lumping” or solving a system of equations
– Well-conditioned for high order elements
• Together these:
• Reduce memory bandwidth which often limits sparse matrix operations
• May reduce floating point operations (large reductions at high order)
Kronbichler and Kormann, Computers & Fluids, 63 (2012)
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PRISMS-PF Performance:
Adaptive Meshing
Adaptive octree meshes
using the p4est library
Depending on the geometry
can massively decrease the
size of a calculation
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Performance vs. Finite Difference
• PRISMS-PF and custom finite
difference code
– Written in Fortran with MPI
parallelization
– Second order central differencing
– Explicit time stepping (forward
Euler)
• 2 growing particles in 3D
– Coupled Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn
– Closely related to a number of
problems of physical interest
(precipitation, solidification, etc.)
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Speed-up vs. Finite Difference at 4
Error Levels
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Performance on PFHub BM3
• Simulation with cubic elements and adaptive meshing
• h = 1/384, Δt = 0.005
• Result is well converged
– Decreasing h by 1/2 and Δt by 1/10, leads to 1% change in the velocity
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Comparison to Other Uploads
Framework Tip Velocity
at t = 1500
Core-h Required Memory
(GB)
PRISMS-PF 8.6×10-4 0.30 0.29
MOOSE (#2) 8.1×10-4 0.51 36.3
MOOSE (#1) 5.5×10-4 241 6.7
FreeFem++ 7.4×10-4 100 0.098
FiPy 1.2×10-3 74 1.9
PRISMS-PF
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New Features:
Grain Remapping
• Each grain is identified
using a recursive flood fill
• Simplified representation
of each grain is stored
– Currently a circle/sphere
– A persistent grain ID is saved
for each grain
• Modified greedy coloring
algorithm to determine the
new home for a grain
marked for transfer
Order Parameter 1 Order Parameter 2
Too close
Marked for transfer
Permann, Tonks, Fromm, Gaston, Comp. Mater. Sci. (2016)
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New Features:
Grain Remapping
• Each grain is identified
using a recursive flood fill
• Simplified representation
of each grain is stored
– Currently a circle/sphere
– A persistent grain ID is saved
for each grain
• Modified greedy coloring
algorithm to determine the
new home for a grain
marked for transfer Initial microstructure
imported from
Permann, Tonks, Fromm, Gaston, Comp. Mater. Sci. (2016)
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New Features:
Materials Commons Integration
Command line tool automatically parses the PRISMS-PF app files and
uploads the metadata and simulation results to Materials Commons
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New Features:
Website and User Manual
PRISMS-PF has a brand new website, including
an online manual replacing the PDF file
https://prisms-center.github.io/phaseField/
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Other New(ish) Features:
• Explicit nucleus placement (more on this later)
• Hybrid Newton/Picard nonlinear solver
• Checkpoint/restart
• Postprocessing
• Docker-based installation
• Automatic integration testing with Travis CI
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Summary
• Flexible, and easy-to-use framework for phase field
modeling
• Highly competitive performance
– 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than finite difference
– Fastest published time for BM3
• Advanced features such as nucleation and grain remapping
• Talk to me if you want to know more
PRISMS-PFAn Open-Source Phase Field Modeling Framework
https://prisms-center.github.io/phaseField/
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Part 1:
Overview of PRISMS-PF and new features
Part 2:
Discussion on explicit nucleation models for phase field
simulations and implementation in PRISMS-PF
Part 3:
2D simulations of nucleation, growth, and coarsening in
an Mg-Nd alloy
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Noise-Based Nucleation vs Explicit
Nucleation
Noised-based nucleation
• Noise is added to the solution,
which lead to super-critical
nuclei forming
• Pro: Mimics reality
• Pro: Easily accounts for all
coupled physics and
heterogeneities
• Con: Intractable for physical
noise scales
• Con: Artificially large noise can
degrade the solution
• Con: No easy connection
between artificially large noise
and nucleation rates
Explicit nucleation
• Super-critical nuclei are
algorithmically placed in the
domain
• Pro: Flexible, based on choice
of nucleation model
• Pro: Works on a mesoscale
length/time scale
• Pro: General nucleation
behavior is know a priori
• Con: Need a functional form
for the nucleation rate and
parameters
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Explicit Nucleation: General Approach
1. Pick a form for the nucleation rate, j(c,η,t,…)
2. During a phase field simulation, periodically sample
subvolumes
3. In each subvolume, compare a random number
[0,1] to the following probability (from a Poisson
distribution)
4. If the random number is greater than p, add a
nucleus in the subvolume
Simmons, Chen, Wang, Scripta Materialia (2000)
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How to Choose the Nucleation Rate?
• Need a model for the nucleation rate
• One common choice is classical nucleation
theory
– Although something else could be used
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Classical Nucleation Theory (I)
• Continuum model usually for a spherical
nucleus
• Assume that the total energy change is broken
into volumetric energy and interfacial energy
• Assume the volumetric term can be split into
chemical and elastic terms
Balluffi, Allen, Carter, Kinetics of Materials (2005)
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Classical Nucleation Theory (II)
• The volumetric term is
negative (favors nucleation,
the interfacial term is positive
(disfavors nucleation)
• The interfacial term dominates
for small nuclei, the
volumetric term dominates for
large nuclei
• Leads to a critical nucleus size Aaronson, Enomoto, and Lee, Mechanisms of
Diffusional Phase Transformations in Metals and
Alloys (2010)
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Classical Nucleation Theory (III)
• Critical size is at:
• Which can be used to calculate the critical
energy and radius
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Classical Nucleation Theory (IV)
• Allow clusters to grow or shrink by adding or
removing atoms (thermally activated)
• Assume an equilibrium distribution of nuclei
(with a constraint on the max size)
• Can calculate the rate of formation of stable
nuclei
Zeldovich factor
(Accounts for super-critical nuclei
that become sub-critical)
Density of nucleation
sites
Attachment rate
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Classical Nucleation Theory (V)
• Assumes that the distribution of clusters is at
equilibrium
• It takes time for the clusters to grow
• Add an incubation time
Incubation time
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Some Problems
1. How do we get the energies?
2. What if the clusters aren’t spherical?
3. What about heterogeneous nucleation?
These problems are magnified by the
exponential, small uncertainties can blow up
Simmons, Chen, Wang, Scripta Materialia (2000)
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One Solution:
Throw Out (Much of) the Detail
Following the general approach from (Simmons, 2000)
Simmons, Chen, Wang, Scripta Materialia (2000)
Exploiting that, for dilute
solutions without strain energy
Where ρ1, ρ2, and τ can
be treated a free
parameters
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How to Place the Nucleus?
1. Modify the composition field (Simmons, 2000)
2. Modify the nonconserved order parameter field
(Jokisaari, 2016)
Simmons, Chen, Wang, Scripta Materialia (2000)
Jokisaari, Permann, Thornton, Comp. Mater. Sci. (2016)
Move solute from the matrix into a cluster, leaving a depletion zone
Need to be careful not to introduce discontinuities, which cause instability
Add a nucleus to the order parameter
Don’t need to worry about conservation
Allow the composition field to naturally evolve
May want to “hold” the nucleus, as the composition field evolves
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Implementation of Nucleation in
PRISMS-PF
• Both explicit nucleation and (naïve) noise-based nucleation
supported
– Our applications focus on order-parameter only explicit
nucleation
– Explicit nucleation requires some work in the background
• Available in any app
• Modular approach, works with:
– Grain remapping
– Multiple phases
– Couple time-independent PDEs (elasticity, electrostatics, etc.)
– Adaptive meshing
– Any other PRISMS-PF feature
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Explicit Nucleation in PRISMS-PF
• User-defined expression for the nucleation
rate
• Nuclei are ellipses/ellipsoids with arbitrary
rotation
• Nucleus size/rotation and rate can be set
independently for different phases
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Explicit Nucleation Procedure
At an user-specified frequency:
For the mesh held by each processor:
For every element:
Determine average variable values (c, n, etc.)
For each nucleating order parameter:
Calculate local nucleation probability
Compare with random number
If p > random number:
Check if the new nucleus overlaps with existing ones
Add it to the local list of new nuclei
Communicate local lists to build a global list
Eliminate overlapping nuclei
Refine the mesh near the new nuclei
Place the nuclei via a source term in the governing equations
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Example: Grain Boundary Nucleation
David Montiel (UM)
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Part 1:
Overview of PRISMS-PF and new features
Part 2:
Discussion on explicit nucleation models for phase field
simulations and implementation in PRISMS-PF
Part 3:
2D simulations of nucleation, growth, and coarsening
in an Mg-Nd alloy
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Background: Mg-RE Precipitates
• Mg alloys of interest for
lightweighting structural
components
• Mg-RE alloys have
precipitates with habit
planes perpendicular to
the basal plane
• Effectively block
dislocation motion
Plots courtesy E. Deda, A. Githens (UM)
Schematics: J.F. Nie, Met. Trans. A, 43A,
3891 (2012)
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Precipitation Sequence in Mg-Nd
Early work in the PRISMS Center examined the precipitation sequence:
[1] Natarajan, et al., Acta Materialia, 108 (2016)
[2] Solomon, et al., Scripta Materialia, 128 (2017)
[3] Saito and Hiraga, Materials Transactions, 52 (2011)
[1] [1] [3]
Primary phases that lead to precipitation strengthening
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Previous Work: β’’’ Precipitates
Phase field modeling used to examine morphology and the relationship
between the misfit strain and the composition
Inputs from first principles/stat. mech.
Predicted equilibrium shapes
Quantitative comparisons to experiments
Identification of interactions that change
the morphology
DeWitt, et al., Acta Materialia, 136 (2017)
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β1 Precipitates in Mg-Nd Alloys
• Now, we are building off of this success to
examine β1 precipitates
• Simulations of entire β1 microstructures during
aging
– β’’’ work showed the importance of interactions on
morphology
– Synthetic microstructures can be passed to
dislocation dynamics to predict strengthening
– Aging simulations get us closer to the capability to
optimize aging conditions for the desired
microstructure
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Long-Term Vision
Fourier Space DFT
(VASP)
Statistical Mechanics
(CASM)
Phase Field
(PRISMS-PF)
Experiments
(HAADF-STEM,
APT)
Number
Density,
Volume
Fraction,
Dimensions
Finite Temp.
Energies
0K Energies
Elastic Constants, Transformation Strains
Enumerate
Configurations
Inform problem space
Dislocation Dynamics
(LLNL-ParaDIS)
Synthetic Precipitate
Microstructures
Experiments
(Tensile Tests)
Yield
Strength
(Validation)
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Shorter-Term Approach
(This Work)
Fourier Space DFT
(VASP)
Phase Field
(PRISMS-PF)
Experiments
(HAADF-STEM,
APT)
Number
Density,
Volume
Fraction,
Dimensions
Elastic Constants, Transformation Strains
Inform problem space
Note: Work in progress
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Nucleation Model for β1 Precipitates
• Use the 2D version of the simple classical nucleation
theory model for the nucleation rate [1]
• In principle could be parameterized via DFT, but in practice
it is too sensitive to error
• Instead, ρ1, ρ2, and τ are fit from experiments
– Need the number density and supersaturation during aging
[1] Simmons, Shen, and Wang, Scripta Materialia, 43 (2000)
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[experimental results redacted]
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Parameterizing the Nucleation Model
First, fit the composition using a hyperbolic tangent
Next, fit the number density using the nucleation model
Inhibit nucleation
before 1h
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Phase Field Simulation of Nucleation,
Growth, and Coarsening
• Use this parameterized nucleation model for 2D phase field simulations
– 2D for computational tractability
– Longest precipitate axis perpendicular to the simulated plane
• 3 order parameters for 6 orientation variants
– Orientation variants with the same transformation strain share an order
parameter
– Random number decides the nucleus orientation for one variant or the other
• KKS model + linear elasticity
• Model inputs
– Homogenous free energies: Parabolas with the experimental equilibrium
compositions
– Interfacial energy: Isotropic, 50 mJ/m2 (estimate from Liu, 2014)
– Stress-free transformation strains: From DFT (Liu, 2014)
– Elastic constants: Homogenous, anisotropic, from DFT (Ji, 2014)
– Diffusion constant: From experiment
Liu et al., Acta Materialia, 77 (2014)
Ji et al., Acta Materialia, 76 (2014)PRISMS-PFAn Open-Source Phase Field Modeling Framework
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Simulated Microstructure Evolution
• Precipitate shape is
qualitatively similar to
experiments
• All 6 variants present
• Largest precipitate is
approx. 0.5 μm at 6h
– Consistent with
experiments
• Fine precipitates
nucleating and
dissolving at the end
1.1μm
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Simulated Microstructure Evolution
• Before 4 h, results are as expected
• After 4 h, new stable nucleus
formation stops prematurely
• Nucleation is still happening, but the
nuclei dissolve back into the matrix
• Average composition has a sigmoidal
shape, as expected
• Depletion of the matrix is delayed
compared to expectations
• Occurs even where the number
density is consistent with the
analytic model
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Simulation vs. Experiment
Microstructure Comparison (4 h)
Simulation (4 periodic copies) TEM
Images are on the same scale
Diad/triad structures are much more common experimentally
Typical length of precipitates are similar, in the 200 nm range
Distribution in precipitate sizes wider in the simulation
5 0 0 n m
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What’s going on?
Was this a typical
result? (yes)
What about
increasing the
diffusivity?
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Why does stable nucleation end early?
• Mismatch between the nucleation model and the phase field model
• Nucleation events are still happening (nuclei stable in the nucleation
model)
• Nuclei no longer stable in the phase field simulation
• This possibility a consequence of the fitting strategy
• Possibilities:
• Interfacial energy is too high
• Experimental uncertainty (composition spatial variation, foil thickness)
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Possible improvements
More experiments
- Understand what happens
between 1-4 h
Including strain energy in the
nucleation rate
- The characteristic triad
structures are favorable due to
strain energy [2]
- Should cause preferential
nucleation of particular variants
at precipitate tips
[1] Paliwal, et al., Scripta Materialia, 108 (2015)
[2] Liu, et al., Scientific Reports, 5 (2015)
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On the path to quantitative phase field modeling
of precipitation during aging
Current strategy is valid for examining the effect
of average composition on the microstructure
Next large step to include temperature
dependence for validation and to eventually
optimize aging conditions
The microstructures from phase field can be
passed to dislocation dynamics to predict strength
Concluding Thoughts
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Acknowledgements
Funding:
US DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences
Award DE-SC0008637
PRISMS-PF Collaborators:
Shiva Rudraraju (now U. Wisconsin), Larry Aagesen (now INL),
David Montiel, Beck Andrews, Katsuyo Thornton
Experimental Collaborators
Qianying Shi, Zhihua Huang, John Allison
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Acknowledgements
Computational Resources:
Funding:
US DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences
Award DE-SC0008637
deal.II Developers:
Editor's Notes
Longest precipitate is about 270 nm long, experimentally the long precipitates are about 500 nm long
Longest precipitate is about 270 nm long, experimentally the long precipitates are about 500 nm long
Simulation of isolated precipitate grew to 500 nm long in 7 hours