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Parallel Algorithms

Parallel Algorithms

Focusing on algorithms for distributed-memory parallel architectures Parallel Algorithms presents a rigorous yet accessible treatment of theoretical models of parallel computation parallel algorithm design for homogeneous and heterogeneous platforms complexity and performance analysis and essential notions of scheduling. The book extracts fundamental ideas and algorithmic principles from the mass of parallel algorithm expertise and practical implementations developed over the last few decades. In the first section of the text the authors cover two classical theoretical models of parallel computation (PRAMs and sorting networks) describe network models for topology and performance and define several classical communication primitives. The next part deals with parallel algorithms on ring and grid logical topologies as well as the issue of load balancing on heterogeneous computing platforms. The final section presents basic results and approaches for common scheduling problems that arise when developing parallel algorithms. It also discusses advanced scheduling topics such as divisible load scheduling and steady-state scheduling. With numerous examples and exercises in each chapter this text encompasses both the theoretical foundations of parallel algorithms and practical parallel algorithm design.

GBP 44.99
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Parallel Iterative Algorithms From Sequential to Grid Computing

Parallel Iterative Algorithms From Sequential to Grid Computing

Focusing on grid computing and asynchronism Parallel Iterative Algorithms explores the theoretical and practical aspects of parallel numerical algorithms. Each chapter contains a theoretical discussion of the topic an algorithmic section that fully details implementation examples and specific algorithms and an evaluation of the advantages and drawbacks of the algorithms. Several exercises also appear at the end of most chapters. The first two chapters introduce the general features of sequential iterative algorithms and their applications to numerical problems. The book then describes different kinds of parallel systems and parallel iterative algorithms. It goes on to address both linear and nonlinear parallel synchronous and asynchronous iterative algorithms for numerical computation with an emphasis on the multisplitting approach. The final chapter discusses the features required for efficient implementation of asynchronous iterative algorithms. Providing the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to design and implement efficient parallel iterative algorithms this book illustrates how to apply these algorithms to solve linear and nonlinear numerical problems in parallel environments including local distant homogeneous and heterogeneous clusters. | Parallel Iterative Algorithms From Sequential to Grid Computing

GBP 59.99
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Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

The programming language Fortran dates back to 1957 when a team of IBM engineers released the first Fortran Compiler. During the past 60 years the language had been revised and updated several times to incorporate more features to enable writing clean and structured computer programs. The present version is Fortran 2018. Since the dawn of the computer era there had been a constant demand for a “larger” and “faster” machine. To increase the speed there are three hurdles. The density of the active components on a VLSI chip cannot be increased indefinitely and with the increase of the density heat dissipation becomes a major problem. Finally the speed of any signal cannot exceed the velocity of the light. However by using several inexpensive processors in parallel coupled with specialized software and hardware programmers can achieve computing speed similar to a supercomputer. This book can be used to learn the modern Fortran from the beginning and the technique of developing parallel programs using Fortran. It is for anyone who wants to learn Fortran. Knowledge beyond high school mathematics is not required. There is not another book on the market yet which deals with Fortran 2018 as well as parallel programming. FEATURES Descriptions of majority of Fortran 2018 instructions Numerical Model String with Variable Length IEEE Arithmetic and Exceptions Dynamic Memory Management Pointers Bit handling C-Fortran Interoperability Object Oriented Programming Parallel Programming using Coarray Parallel Programming using OpenMP Parallel Programming using Message Passing Interface (MPI) THE AUTHOR Dr Subrata Ray is a retired Professor Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata. | Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming

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Parallel Computers 2 Architecture Programming and Algorithms

Parallel Computers 2 Architecture Programming and Algorithms

Since the publication of the first edition parallel computing technology has gained considerable momentum. A large proportion of this has come from the improvement in VLSI techniques offering one to two orders of magnitude more devices than previously possible. A second contributing factor in the fast development of the subject is commercialization. The supercomputer is no longer restricted to a few well-established research institutions and large companies. A new computer breed combining the architectural advantages of the supercomputer with the advance of VLSI technology is now available at very attractive prices. A pioneering device in this development is the transputer a VLSI processor specifically designed to operate in large concurrent systems. Parallel Computers 2: Architecture Programming and Algorithms reflects the shift in emphasis of parallel computing and tracks the development of supercomputers in the years since the first edition was published. It looks at large-scale parallelism as found in transputer ensembles. This extensively rewritten second edition includes major new sections on the transputer and the OCCAM language. The book contains specific information on the various types of machines available details of computer architecture and technologies and descriptions of programming languages and algorithms. Aimed at an advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level this handbook is also useful for research workers machine designers and programmers concerned with parallel computers. In addition it will serve as a guide for potential parallel computer users especially in disciplines where large amounts of computer time are regularly used. | Parallel Computers 2 Architecture Programming and Algorithms

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Fundamentals of Parallel Multicore Architecture

Fundamentals of Parallel Multicore Architecture

Although multicore is now a mainstream architecture there are few textbooks that cover parallel multicore architectures. Filling this gap Fundamentals of Parallel Multicore Architecture provides all the material for a graduate or senior undergraduate course that focuses on the architecture of multicore processors. The book is also useful as a reference for professionals who deal with programming on multicore or designing multicore chips. The text’s coverage of fundamental topics prepares students to study research papers in the multicore architecture area. The text offers many pedagogical features including:Sufficiently short chapters that can be comfortably read over a weekendIntroducing each concept by first describing the problem and building intuition that leads to the need for the conceptDid you know? boxes that present mini case studies alternative points of view examples and other interesting facts or discussion itemsThought-provoking interviews with experts who share their perspectives on multicore architectures in the past present and futureOnline programming assignments and solutions that enhance students’ understandingThe first several chapters address programming issues in shared memory multiprocessors such as the programming model and techniques to parallelize regular and irregular applications. The core of the book covers the architectures for shared memory multiprocessors. The final chapter contains interviews with experts in parallel multicore architecture.

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Parallel Programming for Modern High Performance Computing Systems

Parallel Programming for Modern High Performance Computing Systems

In view of the growing presence and popularity of multicore and manycore processors accelerators and coprocessors as well as clusters using such computing devices the development of efficient parallel applications has become a key challenge to be able to exploit the performance of such systems. This book covers the scope of parallel programming for modern high performance computing systems. It first discusses selected and popular state-of-the-art computing devices and systems available today These include multicore CPUs manycore (co)processors such as Intel Xeon Phi accelerators such as GPUs and clusters as well as programming models supported on these platforms. It next introduces parallelization through important programming paradigms such as master-slave geometric Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) and divide-and-conquer. The practical and useful elements of the most popular and important APIs for programming parallel HPC systems are discussed including MPI OpenMP Pthreads CUDA OpenCL and OpenACC. It also demonstrates through selected code listings how selected APIs can be used to implement important programming paradigms. Furthermore it shows how the codes can be compiled and executed in a Linux environment. The book also presents hybrid codes that integrate selected APIs for potentially multi-level parallelization and utilization of heterogeneous resources and it shows how to use modern elements of these APIs. Selected optimization techniques are also included such as overlapping communication and computations implemented using various APIs. Features:Discusses the popular and currently available computing devices and cluster systemsIncludes typical paradigms used in parallel programsExplores popular APIs for programming parallel applicationsProvides code templates that can be used for implementation of paradigmsProvides hybrid code examples allowing multi-level parallelizationCovers the optimization of parallel programs

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Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Based on Parallel Shift Technology

Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Based on Parallel Shift Technology

This book describes the methods and algorithms for image pre-processing and recognition. These methods are based on a parallel shift technology of the imaging copy as well as simple mathematical operations to allow the generation of a minimum set of features to describe and recognize the image. This book also describes the theoretical foundations of parallel shift technology and pattern recognition. Based on these methods and theories this book is intended to help researchers with artificial intelligence systems design robotics and developing software and hardware applications. | Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Based on Parallel Shift Technology

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Elements of Parallel Computing

Elements of Parallel Computing

Created to help scientists and engineers write computer code this practical book addresses the important tools and techniques that are necessary for scientific computing but which are not yet commonplace in science and engineering curricula. This book contains chapters summarizing the most important topics that computational researchers need to know about. It leverages the viewpoints of passionate experts involved with scientific computing courses around the globe and aims to be a starting point for new computational scientists and a reference for the experienced. Each contributed chapter focuses on a specific tool or skill providing the content needed to provide a working knowledge of the topic in about one day. While many individual books on specific computing topics exist none is explicitly focused on getting technical professionals and students up and running immediately across a variety of computational areas. | Elements of Parallel Computing

GBP 180.00
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GPU Parallel Program Development Using CUDA

GPU Parallel Program Development Using CUDA

GPU Parallel Program Development using CUDA teaches GPU programming by showing the differences among different families of GPUs. This approach prepares the reader for the next generation and future generations of GPUs. The book emphasizes concepts that will remain relevant for a long time rather than concepts that are platform-specific. At the same time the book also provides platform-dependent explanations that are as valuable as generalized GPU concepts. The book consists of three separate parts; it starts by explaining parallelism using CPU multi-threading in Part I. A few simple programs are used to demonstrate the concept of dividing a large task into multiple parallel sub-tasks and mapping them to CPU threads. Multiple ways of parallelizing the same task are analyzed and their pros/cons are studied in terms of both core and memory operation. Part II of the book introduces GPU massive parallelism. The same programs are parallelized on multiple Nvidia GPU platforms and the same performance analysis is repeated. Because the core and memory structures of CPUs and GPUs are different the results differ in interesting ways. The end goal is to make programmers aware of all the good ideas as well as the bad ideas so readers can apply the good ideas and avoid the bad ideas in their own programs. Part III of the book provides pointer for readers who want to expand their horizons. It provides a brief introduction to popular CUDA libraries (such as cuBLAS cuFFT NPP and Thrust) the OpenCL programming language an overview of GPU programming using other programming languages and API libraries (such as Python OpenCV OpenGL and Apple’s Swift and Metal ) and the deep learning library cuDNN.

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Regularized Image Reconstruction in Parallel MRI with MATLAB

Regularized Image Reconstruction in Parallel MRI with MATLAB

Regularization becomes an integral part of the reconstruction process in accelerated parallel magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI) due to the need for utilizing the most discriminative information in the form of parsimonious models to generate high quality images with reduced noise and artifacts. Apart from providing a detailed overview and implementation details of various pMRI reconstruction methods Regularized image reconstruction in parallel MRI with MATLAB examples interprets regularized image reconstruction in pMRI as a means to effectively control the balance between two specific types of error signals to either improve the accuracy in estimation of missing samples or speed up the estimation process. The first type corresponds to the modeling error between acquired and their estimated values. The second type arises due to the perturbation of k-space values in autocalibration methods or sparse approximation in the compressed sensing based reconstruction model. Features: Provides details for optimizing regularization parameters in each type of reconstruction. Presents comparison of regularization approaches for each type of pMRI reconstruction. Includes discussion of case studies using clinically acquired data. MATLAB codes are provided for each reconstruction type. Contains method-wise description of adapting regularization to optimize speed and accuracy. This book serves as a reference material for researchers and students involved in development of pMRI reconstruction methods. Industry practitioners concerned with how to apply regularization in pMRI reconstruction will find this book most useful.

GBP 140.00
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Studying for an Early Childhood Degree Using Inspirations from the Pen Green Students to Achieve Outstanding Results

Studying for an Early Childhood Degree Using Inspirations from the Pen Green Students to Achieve Outstanding Results

Studying for an Early Childhood Degree based on the practices of The Pen Green Centre for children and families exemplifies how student-practitioners can foster strong communities of learners and create student-teacher connections that remain long after studies are complete. The Pen Green Integrated Centre in Corby UK has developed a unique approach to adult education. Highly qualified tutors with their wide-ranging experiences have written Studying for an Early Childhood Degree in collaboration with current and former students. It illustrates different ways to complete assignments providing 20 case-studies of work that achieved an excellent grade from students of different professional geographical ethnic educational and socio-economic backgrounds; it also explores the rationale behind what contributed to these excellent final grades. Each chapter linked to the key themes of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Early Childhood Studies degree includes discussions reflections commentary and extracts from students’ works through Levels 4-7 as well as suggestions for further reading. Studying for an Early Childhood Degree is an essential read for learners as well as educators and practitioners. It will be a key resource for students having varied learning needs professional heritages writing styles and interests. Further it will also support other educators to consider the unique and often competing demands of being an adult in higher education. | Studying for an Early Childhood Degree Using Inspirations from the Pen Green Students to Achieve Outstanding Results

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Parallel Lives Romans and the American Founders

Parallel Lives Romans and the American Founders

This book compares selected Romans of the late Republic with American Founders in the style of Plutarch encouraging readers to rethink how we view heroes and villains and their conceptions of republicanism. Through entertaining yet informative short comparisons this volume demonstrates the humanity of heroes and villains from different times and places through their often idiosyncratic similarities and differences. Readers gain not only a fuller understanding of the late Roman and early American Republics and their leaders but also an appreciation for comparative biography in its ability to make connections across the human experience. The book provides a way to connect two different areas of study focusing on how republicanism shaped both Romans and American Founders and providing a previously unexplored contribution to a growing trend of broadening historical exposure. In doing so Baughman and Poston demonstrate the continued need for connecting different fields of history while also helping students understand their connection to the ancient past. This book is suitable for students and scholars interested in the late Roman and the early American Republics and also appeals to readers of varied interests across historical times and places particularly those studying the connections between the classical past and modern world. | Parallel Lives Romans and the American Founders

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A Pen and Paper Introduction to Statistics

A Pen and Paper Introduction to Statistics

Statistics is central in the biosciences social sciences and other disciplines yet many students often struggle to learn how to perform statistical tests and to understand how and why statistical tests work. Although there are many approaches to teaching statistics a common framework exists between them: starting with probability and distributions then sampling from distribution and descriptive statistics and later introducing both simple and complex statistical tests typically ending with regression analysis (linear models). This book proposes to reverse the way statistics is taught by starting with the introduction of linear models. Today many statisticians know that the one unifying principle of statistical tests is that most of them are instances of linear models. This teaching method has two advantages: all statistical tests in a course can be presented under the same unifying framework simplifying things; second linear models can be expressed as lines over squared paper replacing any equation with a drawing. This book explains how and why statistics works without using a single equation just lines and squares over grid paper. The reader will have the opportunity to work through the examples and compute sums of squares by just drawing and counting and finally evaluating whether observed differences are statistically significant by using the tables provided. Intended for students scientists and those with little prior knowledge of statistics this book is for all with simple and clear examples computations and drawings helping the reader to not only do statistical tests but also understand statistics. | A Pen and Paper Introduction to Statistics

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Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development

Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development

With multicore processors now in every computer server and embedded device the need for cost-effective reliable parallel software has never been greater. By explaining key aspects of multicore programming Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development helps software engineers understand parallel programming and master the multicore challenge. Accessible to newcomers to the field the book captures the state of the art of multicore programming in computer science. It covers the fundamentals of multicore hardware parallel design patterns and parallel programming in C++ . NET and Java. It also discusses manycore computing on graphics cards and heterogeneous multicore platforms automatic parallelization automatic performance tuning transactional memory and emerging applications. As computing power increasingly comes from parallelism software developers must embrace parallel programming. Written by leaders in the field this book provides an overview of the existing and up-and-coming programming choices for multicores. It addresses issues in systems architecture operating systems languages and compilers.

GBP 74.99
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Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers

Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers

Written by high performance computing (HPC) experts Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers provides a solid introduction to current mainstream computer architecture dominant parallel programming models and useful optimization strategies for scientific HPC. From working in a scientific computing center the authors gained a unique perspective on the requirements and attitudes of users as well as manufacturers of parallel computers. The text first introduces the architecture of modern cache-based microprocessors and discusses their inherent performance limitations before describing general optimization strategies for serial code on cache-based architectures. It next covers shared- and distributed-memory parallel computer architectures and the most relevant network topologies. After discussing parallel computing on a theoretical level the authors show how to avoid or ameliorate typical performance problems connected with OpenMP. They then present cache-coherent non-uniform memory access (ccNUMA) optimization techniques examine distributed-memory parallel programming with message passing interface (MPI) and explain how to write efficient MPI code. The final chapter focuses on hybrid programming with MPI and OpenMP. Users of high performance computers often have no idea what factors limit time to solution and whether it makes sense to think about optimization at all. This book facilitates an intuitive understanding of performance limitations without relying on heavy computer science knowledge. It also prepares readers for studying more advanced literature. Read about the authors' recent honor: Informatics Europe Curriculum Best Practices Award for Parallelism and Concurrency.

GBP 180.00
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An Introduction to Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Python Tutorials

An Introduction to Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Python Tutorials

This textbook is written for the first introductory course on scientific computing. It covers elementary numerical methods for linear systems root finding interpolation numerical integration numerical differentiation least squares problems initial value problems and boundary value problems. It includes short Matlab and Python tutorials to quickly get students started on programming. It makes the connection between elementary numerical methods with advanced topics such as machine learning and parallel computing. This textbook gives a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of elementary numerical methods. It balances the development implementation analysis and application of a fundamental numerical method by addressing the following questions. •Where is the method applied?•How is the method developed?•How is the method implemented?•How well does the method work? The material in the textbook is made as self-contained and easy-to-follow as possible with reviews and remarks. The writing is kept concise and precise. Examples figures paper-and-pen exercises and programming problems are deigned to reinforce understanding of numerical methods and problem-solving skills. | An Introduction to Scientific Computing with MATLAB® and Python Tutorials

GBP 82.99
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The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

The Component: A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal is the Oosterhuis' personal account of four decades of architectural and societal thinking designing building and theorizing. It is an orchestrated yet non-linear series of subjects all leading toward the creation of a parallel world called Another Normal. Another Normal is as of now a hypothetical parallel world. Nomadic international citizens are the inhabitants of Another Normal. Urged by the climate crisis the food energy and water nexus and the COVID-19 pandemic Another Normal demonstrates the inevitable data-driven techno-social architecture of the physically built environment and the metaverse. Besides robotic production on demand of almost anything – when where and as needed – Oosterhuis' proposes a dozen strategies that run in parallel to establish Another Normal among others: ubiquitous basic income global birthright to own a generous piece of land distributed production of healthy food clean energy and drinking water ownership of private data and personal avatars in the Web 3. 0 autonomous electronic transportation ubiquitous shared responsibility for clean production and waste treatment techniques ubiquitous home delivery working from anywhere for any period of time and decentralized real-time peer to peer banking. The organic real and the synthetic hyper-real co-evolve naturally in Another Normal where a mix of strong and simple legislative planning and design rules create complexity diversity fairness and equality. | The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

GBP 48.99
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Upgrade Your Italian

Upgrade Your Italian

Aimed at anyone who wants to increase their chance of getting a top grade in Italian exams. Upgrade your Italian offers a thirty-day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve results. Spending between 30 minutes and an hour each day with this book in the countdown to an exam will help towards a better grade. This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for upgrading your exam results:- Eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen- Increasing and consolidating your vocabulary- Improving the style and quality of your Italian

GBP 180.00
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Freewriting With Purpose Simple classroom techniques to help students make connections think critically and construct meaning

Freewriting With Purpose Simple classroom techniques to help students make connections think critically and construct meaning

In freewriting we write continuously: we begin with a prompt and keep our pen or pencil moving throughout the entire duration. We do not stop to question or censor ourselves; we do not concern ourselves with spelling punctuation capitalization or grammar; we do not let critical thoughts creep into our freewriting time. The book shows teachers how to use freewriting to help kids write well and more regardless of grade level subject time of day or time of year. | Freewriting With Purpose Simple classroom techniques to help students make connections think critically and construct meaning

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Technical Proceedings of the 2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show

Technical Proceedings of the 2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show

The Cleantech conference which runs parallel with NSTI's Nanotech is designed to promote advancements in traditional technologies emerging technologies and clean business practices covering important developments in renewable energy clean technologies business and policy bio-energy and novel technologies as well as environmental and clean and green advancements. Collected into its own volume for the first time the papers from Cleantech 2007 cut across every scientific and engineering discipline to address those issues relevant to maintaining and improving the sustainability of our planet. | Technical Proceedings of the 2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show

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Food Ecology and Culture Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices

Food Ecology and Culture Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices

First published in 1980. The following papers represent a selection of studies which provide such an insight into human food behavior during development. It is hoped that readers will be encouraged to participate in this new quest for knowledge. The time has surely come to document carefully the food practices of different societies. The authors’ hope there will be similar and parallel attempts to evaluate the health and disease status so that the relationships between diet and disease may be clarified. | Food Ecology and Culture Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices

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Introduction to Scheduling

Introduction to Scheduling

Full of practical examples Introduction to Scheduling presents the basic concepts and methods fundamental results and recent developments of scheduling theory. With contributions from highly respected experts it provides self-contained easy-to-follow yet rigorous presentations of the material. The book first classifies scheduling problems and their complexity and then presents examples that demonstrate successful techniques for the design of efficient approximation algorithms. It also discusses classical problems such as the famous makespan minimization problem as well as more recent advances such as energy-efficient scheduling algorithms. After focusing on job scheduling problems that encompass independent and possibly parallel jobs the text moves on to a practical application of cyclic scheduling for the synthesis of embedded systems. It also proves that efficient schedules can be derived in the context of steady-state scheduling. Subsequent chapters discuss scheduling large and computer-intensive applications on parallel resources illustrate different approaches of multi-objective scheduling and show how to compare the performance of stochastic task-resource systems. The final chapter assesses the impact of platform models on scheduling techniques. From the basics to advanced topics and platform models this volume provides a thorough introduction to the field. It reviews classical methods explores more contemporary models and shows how the techniques and algorithms are used in practice.

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