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HECToR was a British academic national supercomputer service funded by EPSRC, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and BBSRC for the UK academic community. The HECToR service was run by partners including EPCC, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: HECToRA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Hector V3.2.0: functionality and performance of a reduced-complexity climate modelInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: CorrespondenceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Fault Slip Distribution of the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake, Estimated from Satellite Radar and GPS MeasurementsCited 800 times
- Go sideways: Cray XT6A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Edinburgh Parallel Computing CentreA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully.
Verb To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.
Verb To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Fault Slip Distribution of the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake, Estimated from Satellite Radar and GPS Measurements
The complete (3‐D) surface displacement field in the epicentral area of the 1999 MW7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake, California, from space geodetic observations
Source Description of the 1999 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake, Part I: Wavelet Domain Inversion Theory and Resolution Analysis
Coseismic Deformation from the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake as Inferred from InSAR and GPS Observations
Earthquake triggering by seismic waves following the Landers and Hector Mine earthquakes
Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer
A randomized, multicenter comparison of tacrolimus and cyclosporine immunosuppressive regimens in cardiac transplantation: decreased hyperlipidemia and hypertension with tacrolimus11This study was sponsored by a grant from Fujisawa USA, Deerfield, Illinois.22The authors were working on behalf of the Tacrolimus US Heart Transplant Multicenter Study Group. Other members of the Study Group included (principal investigator listed first): UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program, Salt Lake City, Utah: David O. Taylor, MD, Dale G. Renlund, MD, Abdallah G. Kfoury, MD; St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas: O. H. Frazier, MD, Branislav Radovancevic, MD, Edward K. Massin, MD; University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin: Robert M. Mentzer, Jr., MD, Charles C. Canver, MD, Robert B. Love, MD; Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana: Frank W. Smart, MD, Hector O. Ventura, MD, Dwight D. Stapleton, MD, Mandeep Mehra, MD; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California: Mark L. Barr, MD, Vaugh A. Starnes, MD; Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia: David E. Tolman, MD, Albert Guerraty, MD, David Salter, MD; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio: James B. Young, MD; Data Management and Statistical Coordinating Center-The EMMES Corporation, Potomac, Maryland: Paul VanVeldhuisen, MS, Anne Lindblad, PhD, Anita Yaffe, MSN, MPH.
Mantle Flow Beneath a Continental Strike-Slip Fault: Postseismic Deformation After the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake
🆕 Influential since 2022
Hector V3.2.0: functionality and performance of a reduced-complexity climate model
An Autonomous Navigation Strategy Based on Improved Hector SLAM With Dynamic Weighted A* Algorithm
Mutual benefits for research and practice: Randomized controlled trials in the Hector Children's Academy Program
Commissioning of the 4$$\pi \,\gamma $$-summing array HECTOR at CASPAR: measurements of $$^{27}\text {Al}$$$$(p,\gamma )$$ $$^{28}\text {Si}$$ resonances 4850 feet underground
Control and Navigation of Differential Drive Mobile Robot with PID and Hector SLAM: Simulation and Implementation
📚 Books worth reading
CorrespondenceHector Berlioz · 1844
MémoiresHector Berlioz · 1947
Omero, IliadeAlessandro Baricco · 2004
Some cloudsPaco Ignacio Taibo II · 1985
Muertos incómodosSubcomandante Marcos, Paco Ignacio Taibo II · 2005
BerliozDavid Cairns · 1989
Berlioz and the romantic centuryJacques Barzun · 1950
Memoirs of Hector BerliozHector Berlioz · 1935
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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