IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 51, 2007

Volume 51, Number 1/2, 2007

• Paul R. Turgeon:
  Preface. 3-4
  
• Daniel J. Poindexter, Scott R. Stiffler, Philip T. Wu, Paul D. Agnello, Thomas Ivers, Shreesh Narasimha, Thomas B. Faure, Jed H. Rankin, David A. Grosch, Marc D. Knox, Daniel C. Edelstein, Mukesh Khare, Gary B. Bronner, Hyun-Jang Nam, Shahid A. Butt:
  Optimization of silicon technology for the IBM System z9. 5-18
  
• Guenter Mayer, Gerhard Döttling, Richard F. Rizzolo, Christopher J. Berry, Sean M. Carey, Christopher M. Carney, Joachim Keinert, Peter Loeffler, Walter Nop, Daniel E. Skooglund, Vern A. Victoria, Alan P. Wagstaff, Patrick M. Williams:
  Design methods for attaining IBM System z9 processor cycle-time goals. 19-36
  
• Hubert Harrer, Daniel M. Dreps, Thomas-Michael Winkel, Wolfgang Scholz, Bao G. Truong, Andreas Huber, Tingdong Zhou, Kenneth L. Christian, Gary F. Goth:
  High-speed interconnect and packaging design of the IBM System z9 processor cage. 37-52
  
• Derrin M. Berger, Jonathan Y. Chen, Frank D. Ferraiolo, Jeffrey A. Magee, Gary A. Van Huben:
  High-speed source-synchronous interface for the IBM System z9 processor. 53-64
  
• Richard F. Rizzolo, Thomas G. Foote, James M. Crafts, David A. Grosch, Tak O. Leung, David J. Lund, Bryan L. Mechtly, Bryan J. Robbins, Timothy J. Slegel, Michael J. Tremblay, Glen A. Wiedemeier:
  IBM System z9 eFUSE applications and methodology. 65-76
  
• Les W. Wyman, José Castaño, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Bernard R. Pierce, Robert R. Rogers:
  zAAPs and zIIPs: Increasing the strategic value of System z. 77-86
  
• Todd W. Arnold, Anne Dames, Michael D. Hocker, Mark D. Marik, Nancy A. Pellicciotti, Klaus Werner:
  Cryptographic system enhancements for the IBM System z9. 87-102
  
• Jaya Srikrishnan, Stefan Amann, Gerhard Banzhaf, Frank W. Brice, Robert J. Dugan, Giles R. Frazier, George Kuch, Juergen Leopold:
  Sharing FCP adapters through virtualization. 103-118
  
• Mooheng Zee, Jerry W. Stevens, Belinda L. Thompson, Joel A. Fowler, Joel Goldman, Ping T. (Danny) Chan, Thomas P. McSweeney:
  IBM System z9 Open Systems Adapter for Communication Controller for Linux. 119-130
  
• Kenneth J. Oakes, Ulrich Helmich, Andreas Kohler, Andrew W. Piechowski, Martin Taubert, John S. Trotter, Joachim von Buttlar, Robert M. Whalen Jr.:
  Enhanced I/O subsystem recovery and availability on the IBM System z9. 131-144
  
• Michael J. Mueller, Ulrich Weiss, Tobias Webel, Luiz C. Alves, William J. Clarke, Markus Straßer, Eberhard Engler, Giovanni Cautillo, Harm Osterndorf, Joerg Schulze:
  Fully redundant clock generation and distribution with dynamic oscillator switchover. 145-156
  
• Christopher R. Conklin, Carl J. Hollenback, Carl Mayer, Alexandra Winter:
  Reducing planned outages for book hardware maintenance with concurrent book replacement. 157-172
  
• Ulrich Helmich, Michael Becht, Michael J. Becht, Janet R. Easton, Richard K. Errickson, Tobias Gehrmann, Steven G. Glassen, Seth R. Greenspan, Frank Koeble, Helge Lehmann, Carl Mayer, Jonathan S. Nikfarjam, Forrest A. Schumacher, Willi Storz:
  Redundant I/O interconnect. 173-184
  
• Andreas Muehlbach, Brian D. Valentine, Daniela Immel, Michael S. Bomar, Timothy V. Bolan:
  Concurrent driver upgrade: Method to eliminate scheduled system outages for new function releases. 185-194
  
• Christine Axnix, Torsten Hendel, Michael Mueller, Angel Nuñez Mencias, Hartmut Penner, Stefan Usenbinz:
  Open-standard development environment for IBM System z9 host firmware. 195-206
  
• Klaus Theurich, Alexander Albus, Felix Eickhoff, Daniela Immel, Andreas Kohler, Eberhard Lange, Joachim von Buttlar:
  Advanced firmware verification using a code simulator for the IBM System z9. 207-216
  
• Ali Y. Duale, Mark H. Decker, Hans-Georg Zipperer, Merav Aharoni, Theodore J. Bohizic:
  Decimal floating-point in z9: An implementation and testing perspective. 217-228
  
• Alan M. Webb, Raymond Mansell, Joshua W. Knight, Steven J. Greenspan, David Emmes:
  Practical software reuse for IBM System z I/O subsystems. 229-243
  

Volume 51, Number 3/4, 2007

• Baruch Schieber:
  Preface. 247-250
  
• Donna L. Gresh, Daniel P. Connors, John P. Fasano, Robert J. Wittrock:
  Applying supply chain optimization techniques to workforce planning problems. 251-262
  
• Yehuda Naveh, Yossi Richter, Yaniv Altshuler, Donna L. Gresh, Daniel P. Connors:
  Workforce optimization: Identification and assignment of professional workers using constraint programming. 263-280
  
• Jianying Hu, Bonnie K. Ray, Moninder Singh:
  Statistical methods for automated generation of service engagement staffing plans. 281-294
  
• Samuel Müller, Chonawee Supatgiat:
  A quantitative optimization model for dynamic risk-based compliance management. 295-308
  
• Emmanuel Yashchin:
  Modeling of risk losses using size-biased data. 309-324
  
• Balachandran Vaidyanathan, Krishna C. Jha, Ravindra K. Ahuja:
  Multicommodity network flow approach to the railroad crew-scheduling problem. 325-344
  
• Sanjeeb Dash, Jayant Kalagnanam, Chandra Reddy, Sang Hwa Song:
  Production design for plate products in the steel industry. 345-362
  
• Hiroki Yanagisawa:
  The material allocation problem in the steel industry. 363-374
  
• Gyana R. Parija, Tarun Kumar, Haifeng Xi, Dan Keller:
  ParijaStrategic planning of preparedness budgets for wildland fire management. 375-390
  
• Francisco Barahona, Pawan Chowdhary, Markus Ettl, Pu Huang, Tracy Kimbrel, Laszlo Ladányi, Young M. Lee, Baruch Schieber, Karthik Sourirajan, Maxim Sviridenko, Grzegorz Swirszcz:
  Inventory allocation and transportation scheduling for logistics of network-centric military operations. 391-408
  
• David Selby:
  Marketing event optimization. 409-420
  
• Abdel Labbi, Cesar Berrospi:
  Optimizing marketing planning and budgeting using Markov decision processes: An airline case study. 421-432
  
• Kaan Katircioglu, Timothy M. Brown, Mateen Asghar:
  An SQL-based cost-effective inventory optimization solution. 433-446
  
• Peter Korevaar, Ulrich Schimpel, Richard Boedi:
  Inventory budget optimization: Meeting system-wide service levels in practice. 447-464
  
• Gary F. Anderson, David Selby, Mark Ramsey:
  Insider attack and real-time data mining of user behavior. 465-476
  
• Marco Better, Fred Glover, Manuel Laguna:
  Advances in analytics: Integrating dynamic data mining with simulation optimization. 477-488
  
• Jon Lee:
  Mixed-integer nonlinear programming: Some modeling and solution issues. 489-497
  

Volume 51, Number 5, 2007

• H. Peter Hofstee, Ashwini K. Nanda, John J. Ritsko:
  Preface. 501-502
  
• Charles R. Johns, Daniel A. Brokenshire:
  Introduction to the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture. 503-520
  
• Kanna Shimizu, H. Peter Hofstee, John S. Liberty:
  Cell Broadband Engine processor vault security architecture. 521-528
  
• Brian K. Flachs, Shigehiro Asano, Sang H. Dhong, H. Peter Hofstee, Gilles Gervais, Roy Kim, Tien Le, Peichun Liu, Jens Leenstra, John S. Liberty, Brad W. Michael, Hwa-Joon Oh, Silvia M. Müller, Osamu Takahashi, Koji Hirairi, Atsushi Kawasumi, Hiroaki Murakami, Hiromi Noro, Shoji Onishi, Juergen Pille, Joel Silberman, Suksoon Yong, Akiyuki Hatakeyama, Yukio Watanabe, Naoka Yano, Daniel A. Brokenshire, Mohammad Peyravian, VanDung To, Eiji Iwata:
  Microarchitecture and implementation of the synergistic processor in 65-nm and 90-nm SOI. 529-544
  
• Mack W. Riley, James D. Warnock, Dieter F. Wendel:
  Cell Broadband Engine processor: Design and implementation. 545-558
  
• Thomas Chen, Ram Raghavan, Jason N. Dale, Eiji Iwata:
  Cell Broadband Engine Architecture and its first implementation - A performance view. 559-572
  
• Ashwini K. Nanda, J. Randal Moulic, Robert E. Hanson, Gottfried Goldrian, Michael N. Day, Bruce D. D'Amora, Sreeni Kesavarapu:
  Cell/B.E. blades: Building blocks for scalable, real-time, interactive, and digital media servers. 573-582
  
• Yang Liu, Holger Jones, Sheila Vaidya, Michael Perrone, Borivoj Tydlitát, Ashwini K. Nanda:
  Speech recognition systems on the Cell Broadband Engine processor. 583-592
  
• Josep M. Pérez, Pieter Bellens, Rosa M. Badia, Jesús Labarta:
  CellSs: Making it easier to program the Cell Broadband Engine processor. 593-604
  
• Charles T. Black, Ricardo Ruiz, Gregory Breyta, Joy Y. Cheng, Matthew E. Colburn, Kathryn W. Guarini, Ho-Cheol Kim, Ying Zhang:
  Polymer self assembly in semiconductor microelectronics. 605-633
  

Volume 51, Number 6, 2007

• Hina Mehta:
  Preface. 637-638
  
• Hung Q. Le, William J. Starke, J. Stephen Fields, Francis P. O'Connell, Dung Q. Nguyen, Bruce J. Ronchetti, Wolfram Sauer, Eric M. Schwarz, Michael T. Vaden:
  IBM POWER6 microarchitecture. 639-662
  
• Lee Eisen, John Wesley Ward III, Hans-Werner Tast, Nicolas Mäding, Jens Leenstra, Silvia M. Müller, Christian Jacobi, Jochen Preiss, Eric M. Schwarz, Steven R. Carlough:
  IBM POWER6 accelerators: VMX and DFU. 663-684
  
• Rex Berridge, Robert M. Averill III, Arnold E. Barish, Michael A. Bowen, Peter J. Camporese, Jack DiLullo, Peter E. Dudley, Joachim Keinert, David W. Lewis, Robert D. Morel, Thomas Rosser, Nicole S. Schwartz, Philip Shephard, Howard H. Smith, Dave Thomas, Phillip J. Restle, John R. Ripley, Stephen L. Runyon, Patrick M. Williams:
  IBM POWER6 microprocessor physical design and design methodology. 685-714
  
• Brian W. Curran, Eric Fluhr, Jose Paredes, Leon J. Sigal, Joshua Friedrich, Yiu-Hing Chan, Charlie Hwang:
  Power-constrained high-frequency circuits for the IBM POWER6 microprocessor. 715-732
  
• Michael S. Floyd, Soraya Ghiasi, Tom W. Keller, Karthick Rajamani, Freeman L. Rawson III, Juan C. Rubio, Malcolm S. Ware:
  System power management support in the IBM POWER6 microprocessor. 733-746
  
• Donald W. Plass, Yuen H. Chan:
  IBM POWER6 SRAM arrays. 747-756
  
• William J. Armstrong, Richard L. Arndt, Timothy R. Marchini, Naresh Nayar, Wolfram Sauer:
  IBM POWER6 partition mobility: Moving virtual servers seamlessly between physical systems. 757-762
  
• Michael J. Mack, Wolfram Sauer, Scott B. Swaney, Bruce G. Mealey:
  IBM POWER6 reliability. 763-774
  
• Hye-Young McCreary, Martha A. Broyles, Michael S. Floyd, Andrew J. Geissler, Steven P. Hartman, Freeman L. Rawson III, Todd J. Rosedahl, Juan C. Rubio, Malcolm S. Ware:
  EnergyScale for IBM POWER6 microprocessor-based systems. 775-786