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1.Two cases of what the author considers grave misconduct in journal reviewing led him to consider how we could improve how journals review submissions. He wanted to treat anonymous peer reviewing as a given because no reasonable reengineering of the review process seems to have proposed a workable alternative. Although all the author's data derives from personal experience, the sample is not small, amounting to around 30 rejected submissions to journals and conferences. In each case, he carefully distilled the reviewers' comments to gauge if they constituted constructive reviewing.
Effective communication of technical work is the primary goal of the technical journal. This essay provides information about the IBM Systems Journal and offers guidelines for prospective authors. The Systems Journal and its audience are described, and the processing of papers is discussed, along with suggestions for content and structure. To further aid the writer in preparing clear, complete papers of high quality, we include a bibliography of technical writing references.The Journal welcomes submissions from members of the worldwide professional and academic community who are interested in advances in software and systems. The following guide for authors was published in Volume 33, Number 4 (1994) of the IBM Systems Journal and is available as a reprint.
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2.The regional bank migth deciede that buy a six server computer insted of one supercomputer.Six RLX ServerBlades in a standard 1U chassis and complete every phase of product design—overall project plan, system architecture, specifications development, system detail design, risk analysis and mitigation, two prototype builds and testing, environmental testing, regulatory and compliance testing, and transition to pilot production—in five months than upercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems involving quantum mechanical physics, weather forecasting, climate research (including research into global warming), molecular modeling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), physical simulations (such as simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, simulation of the detonation of nuclear weapons, and research into nuclear fusion), cryptanalysis, and the like. Major universities, military agencies and scientific research laboratories are heavy users.