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Design and development of computer-aided chemical systems: virtual labs for teaching chemical experiments in undergraduate and graduate courses.

An environment for the construction of virtual chemistry experiments is presented. This environment is based on the E(V) = M + m model-Experiment (Virtual) = Materials + method-proposed and described herein, which allows the representation and subsequent building of chemistry experiments in virtual 3D worlds to any degree of complexity. The object-based nature of the environment not only allows its use on the Internet but also facilitates integration with other systems, while enabling the system to represent and organize knowledge in such a way that it is available to any teaching environment dealing with chemical laboratory experiments.

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Parallel algorithms for graph cycle extraction using the cyclical conjunction operator.

With a view to reducing the computational cost of extracting all the cycles from complex graphs, the authors have examined the viability here of parallel processing. Based on the cyclical conjunction operator, which uses an iterative process to extract every cycle from a graph, a study was performed of the factors intervening in the parallelization of this algorithm, namely the following: granularity of the parallel algorithm, requirements for synchronization points, and the spreading of the load across different processors. Tests were performed on two granularities and four different load distributions. Algorithm implementation is carried out using SGI MP and OpenMP libraries, and, in the light of the present findings, the authors propose a dynamically distributed fine-grain algorithm using that allows all the cycles in a complex graph to be found in an acceptable computational time.

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