Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

Verigy (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Siliconsystems, Inc.

Nanonexus Corporation

Nitin S Parekh

Meng H Lean

Douglas N Modlin

Fu Chiung Chong

Sammy Mok

Frank Swiatowiec

Douglas J McKay

Andrew Kao

Anna Litza

Zhaohui Shan

Daniel H Greene

Scott Alan Elrod

Armin R Volkel

Huangpin Ben Hsieh

Maurice Kyojin Chu

Bryan Thomas Preas

Norine E Chang

Haitham Hindi

Eric Peeters

Marc E Mosko

Richard H Bruce

Ana Claudia Arias

James E Reich

Ross D Bringans

Armin Rainer Völkel

Kai Melde

Jeonggi Seo

Ashutosh Kole

H Ben Hsieh

Lawrence Lee

Celia Chow

Dominic Massetti

Joe Zuback

Bo Begole

Lisa Fahey

Linda Jacobson

Susan (Susie) Mulhern

David Weinerth

A transformational approach to water treatment is provided that incorporates membrane-free filtration with dynamic processing of the fluid to significantly reduce treatment times, chemical cost, land use, and operational overhead. This approach provides hybrid capabilities of filtration, together with chemical treatment, as the water is transported through various spiral stages.

Device and method for dynamic processing in water purification

Provided is a standalone integrated water treatment system for a distributed water supply including a filter input, a coagulation system in operative connection with the filter input, wherein the water is subjected to a coagulation process to create pin floc from suspensions in the water. A maturation buffer tank in operative connection with the coagulation system aggregates floc in size within the water. A spiral separator separates the water into two water streams, a first stream of water having most of the floc removed, and a second stream of water which includes a concentrated amount of the floc. An optional filtration system is configured to receive the first stream of water and perform a filtration operation thereon. A sterilization system is configured to perform a sterilization operation on the first stream of water. The water is then output from the sterilization system as potable water.

Stand-alone integrated water treatment system for distributed water supply to small communities

A computer-implemented method of managing resources in a virtual machine environment can include determining a specification of provisioning success corresponding to each of multiple jobs in the virtual machine environment, determining a prediction of resource needs corresponding to each of the jobs, and determining a resource specification corresponding to each of the jobs based on the specification of provisioning success and the prediction of resource needs.

Statistical packing of resource requirements in data centers

Provided is a standalone integrated water treatment system for a distributed water supply. A filter input receives water to be treated. A coagulation system is in operative connection with the filter input, wherein the water which has been filtered is subjected to a coagulation process performed by the coagulation system to create pin floc from suspensions in the water. A maturation buffer tank is in operative connection with the coagulation system, wherein floc is aggregated in size within the water. A spiral separator is in operative connection with the maturation buffer tank, and the water is separated into two water streams, a first stream of water having most of the floc removed, and a second stream of water which includes a concentrated amount of the floc. An optional filtration system is in operative connection with the spiral separator and is configured to receive the first stream of water and to perform a filtration operation on the first stream of water. A sterilization system is in operative connection with the optional filtration system and is configured to perform a sterilization operation on the first stream of water. The water is then output from the sterilization system as potable water.

A power control system in a data center has a plurality of physical servers, each server having a local controller, at least one virtual server coupled to at least some of the physical servers, and a central controller to control task loading on the physical servers through the virtual servers. A method of controlling power consumption in a data center includes receiving inputs from local controllers residing on loads, the inputs including data about power consumption on the loads, receiving as an input at least one quality of service requirement, and allocating tasks to at least one server based upon the quality of service and the power consumption on the loads.

Integrated energy savings and business operations in data centers

The water treatment system and method incorporating the use of a hydrodynamic separator to remove most of the total suspended solids (TSS) in source water being treated to thereby lighten the load on membrane filtration in the water treatment system and lower energy costs.

Membrane bioreactor (MBR) and moving bed bioreactor (MBBR) configurations for wastewater treatment

A system and method for providing print advertisements is presented. A target audience is assembled from characteristics about readers. Advertising content is targeted to the target audience. The characteristics of the target audience are analyzed against the advertising content to identify potential advertisers. At least one of the potential advertisers is selected. At least one print advertisement for the selected advertiser is included on the document.

System and method for providing print advertisements

An improved interconnection system and method is described, such as for connectors, socket assemblies and/or probe card systems. An exemplary system comprises a probe card interface assembly (PCIA) for establishing electrical connections to a semiconductor wafer mounted in a prober. The PCIA comprises a motherboard parallel to the semiconductor wafer having an upper surface and an opposing lower planar mounting surface, a reference plane defined by a least three points located between the lower surface of the motherboard and the wafer, at least one component located below the motherboard mounting surface, and a mechanism for adjusting the planarity of the reference plane with respect to the wafer. A probe chip having a plurality of spring probes extending there from is mountable and demountable from the PCIA, without the need for further planarity adjustment. The interconnection structures and methods preferably provide improved fabrication cycles.

High density interconnect system having rapid fabrication cycle

The present invention is a method for providing multifunctional, contactless, interconnect technology that can simultaneously fabricate four features on a silicon wafer within the same metallization level including a diffusion barrier layer, a trim element (fuse), a higher resistivity local interconnect/strap, and a lower resistivity global interconnect. The fabrication only requires two lithographic operations and one metal deposition. A first metal (a refractory metal) film having constant thickness is sputter deposited on the silicon wafer. In the preferred embodiment, the refractory metal is titanitun-tungsten. A second metal fihn may be sputter deposited on the first metal film. The first metal fihn has a higher resistivity than the second metal film. In the preferred embodiment, the second metal is aluminum-copper. Four features may be defined using a first mask. The features are etched and the first mask is removed. Three of the four features may be further defined using a second, non-critical mask. The second metal film of the three features are wet etched and the second mask is removed to provide the four features. An intermetal oxide is deposited. The present invention maintains good barrier integrity, even as devices are scaled down into the submicron and sub-half micron regimes.

Multifunctional contactless interconnect technology

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Nitin S Parekh