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The kernel is a computer program that has complete control over the operating system. It handles the input/output requests and translates them into data-processing instructions for the CPU. It handles not only the memory, but also peripherals. The kernel controls the tasks that are managed in the running system, some of these are running processes, hardware management and handling interrupts, in the kernel space. On the other hand, the user performs in the user space. This separation helps to prevent data interfering that can cause instability and slowness, or worse, malfunctioning application programs that can crash the entire operating system. The process scheduler decides which is the next task to run. In the following project we analyzed the behavior of the scheduler changing the default value of the runtime scheduling, this value is 950000µs for the scheduler real time running variable. According to this, 5% of the CPU time is reserved for processes that are not running under a realtime or deadline scheduling policy. On this project, this value specifies how much of the period time could be used by real-time and deadline scheduled processes on the system.

Objetivos: Estudo do movimento oscilatório, oscilações livres não amortecidas e amortecidas, e oscilações forçadas e amortecidas.

Quantum Dots are semiconductor nanocrystals whose diameter is in the range of 2-10 nm, corre- sponding to 10 to 50 atoms in diameter and a total of 100 to 100,000 atoms within the quantum dot volume. Many types of quantum dot emit light of specific frequencies if electricity or light is applied to them, and these frequencies can be precisely tuned by changing the dots’ size, shape and material, giving rise to many applica- tions. Because of their high tunable properties, quantum dots are of wide interest. It finds its applications in nanotechnology, medical imaging, transistors, solar cells, LED’s, diode lasers, quantum computing, etc. With this project, we intend to further understand and study the properties of quantum dots by using atomic force microscopy.

A dual energy radiography method using basis decomposition was developed, the process to do it is shown and it is compared against an alternate more direct method of analyzing the data using the logarithm of the original data, concluding that this second method does work but it is not better than basis decomposition.

Con el auge de los sistemas de bases de datos NoSQL los cuales implementan modelos de datos diferentes al relacional como son las bases de datos documentales o de grafos, ha surgido el concepto de Persistencia Políglota. Ésta sostiene que debido a la gran variedad y cantidad de representación de los datos, y los diversos servicios que pueden dar las aplicaciones hoy en día; es necesario el uso de más de un tipo de sistema de almacenamiento para ser capaz de cubrir de forma eficiente todas las necesidades de la aplicación que use dicho sistema. En este trabajo se busca dar una idea general de las Aplicaciones de Persistencia Políglota describiendo las posibles arquitecturas que hacen uso de las bases de datos NoSQL y su funcionamiento, se estudian algunos casos de éxito y se lleva a cabo un caso de estudio usando MongoDB y Neo4j.

A dual energy radiography method using basis decomposition was developed, the process to do it is shown and it is compared against an alternate more direct method of analyzing the data using the logarithm of the original data, concluding that this second method does work but it is not better than basis decomposition.

An attempt of achieving a Kernel optimaization using Ubuntu 16..04.1 LTS, Phoronix Test Suite and different value changes and tests for an internal Kernel variable: the runtime value.

This document talks about how we tried to do a benchmark using the aiostress test on ubuntu desktop 16.04, the things we found useful and the problems we encountered.

The swappiness parameter was modified in order to see performance improvement when compressing a file.