Abstract: A method and apparatus for heating a liquid storage tank includes a liquid storage tank having an interior and a peripheral sidewall. An engine compartment is appended to the peripheral sidewall in front of the heat tube. An engine is disposed in the engine compartment. Heat given off from the engine during operation heats the engine compartment and such heat is transferred through peripheral sidewall to the interior of the liquid storage tank. An exhaust conduit extends into the interior of the liquid storage tank. Heat from hot exhaust gases passing through the exhaust conduit heats the interior of the liquid storage tank.

Abstract: A method and system of managing resource allocation in a non-uniform resource access computer system is disclosed. A method comprises determining access costs between resources in a computer system having non-uniform access costs between the resources. The method also includes constructing a hierarchical data structure comprising the access costs. The hierarchical data structure is traversed to manage a set of the resources.

Abstract: A container (1) for hot-from-cooking poultry having a recessed base (2) with side-walls (3, 4, 5, 6), a domed lid (7), and a hinge (14) connecting the lid (7) to the base. The lid and the base are adapted for closure of the container around a joint surface (11). The hinge (14) is provided at the joint surface and at one side of the container (1) and extending along a straight hinge region spaced out from the intersection of one of the side-walls of the recess and the joint surface. The side-wall has a portion (17) angled at an acute angle with respect to the joint surface, and being generally coplanar with the hinge region. The container can be stood with the wall portion and the hinge on a support surface, with the intersection of the side-wall of which it is a portion and joint surface set up from the support surface.

Abstract: A modular data storage system with a control path and a data path. The storage system includes three modular components linked and adapted for independent removal and insertion within the modular data storage system. A service processor is positioned in the control path, a data services platform is positioned in the data path and the control path, and a storage array controller is positioned in the data path and the control path. The data services platform has a host interface interfacing with storage application hosts and includes a control path block linked to the service processor. The platform includes a data path block including data path functions that may be functions partitioned for performance only by the data services platform. The storage array controller includes a control path block linked to the service processor and including control interfaces. The controller includes a data path block including data path functions.

Abstract: A method and system of managing resource allocation in a non-uniform resource access computer system is disclosed. A method comprises determining access costs between resources in a computer system having non-uniform access costs between the resources. The method also includes constructing a hierarchical data structure comprising the access costs. The hierarchical data structure is traversed to manage a set of the resources.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of testing for a blood-borne agent present in or on the surface of white blood cells or on platelets, comprising: (a) providing a blood-derived sample enriched in such white blood cells and/or platelets: and (b) testing for the presence or absence, or amount or concentration, of said agent in said sample.