Abstract: The present invention provides a stand assist apparatus that can be positioned over an armless seat or toilet to assist the user in standing up and/or being seated. The stand assist apparatus includes a first and second frame, each frame having a front leg and a back leg, a support bar interconnecting the front leg and the back leg and a handle portion disposed directly above the front leg, an upper adjustable member and a lower adjustable member for adjusting the distance between the first and second frames, means for pivoting the upper and lower adjustable members about the first and second frames, and means for locking the upper and lower adjustable members between the first and second frames. The stand assist apparatus is foldable by releasing the means for locking and allowing the frames to fold together vertically as the adjustable members simultaneously pivot therebetween.

Abstract: A scaled-down representation of input to a compute-intensive application is created. A computing requirement based on the scaled-down representation is calculated. A turn-around time and an actual cost to a customer to run the compute-intensive application with the input, on one or more processors, based on the calculated computing requirement, is calculated and then sent to the customer.