The performance of particle-in-cell (PIC) programs executing on Cray X-MP supercomputers is highly dependent on a critical region of the code: the collection of grid quantities from particle quantities, which cannot directly be vectorized.
Twenty-two months after the publication of the first stories based on documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the UK's intelligence and security committee (ISC) has acknowledged what the general public already knew: GCHQ and its allies engage in bulk collection of large quantities of online data.
But for now, President Obama and his top advisers have concluded that there is no workable alternative to the bulk collection of huge quantities of "metadata," including records of all telephone calls made inside the United States.
Toxic metals and poison can also enter the bloodstream during the manual extraction and collection of tiny quantities of precious metals, and workers are continuously exposed to poisonous chemicals and fumes of highly concentrated acids.
"Recent disclosures indicate that the U.S. government operates a host of large-scale programs under EO 12333, many of which appear to involve the collection of vast quantities of U.S. and non-U.S.
A platform may enable the collection of large quantities of data but, due to the large scale, the data quality may be less accurate, reliable, complete, and consistent.
Flight testing of aircraft, in which new design concepts, problems, and deficiencies are examined, involves the collection of large quantities of data allocated onto blocks within a telemetry frame or data cycle map (DCM).
Recent exploration activities and successful discovery of large oil fields in the upper Val d'Agri area (Southern Apennine, Italy) have encouraged the collection of large quantities of geological and geophysical data, and their integration into comprehensive geological models.
These methods are not yet feasible in developing countries where slaughtering is mainly done in small and scattered units, which makes collection of large quantities of blood and rumen contents difficult.
Although banned by then-President Marc Ravalomanana from 2000 to 2009, the collection of small quantities of precious timber from national parks was re-authorized in January 2009 and dramatically intensified under the administration of Andry Rajoelina as a key source of state revenues to offset cuts in donor support following Ravalomanana's ouster.
