Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for online monitoring, without the need for sampling and in real time, the precipitation of inorganic salts in aqueous streams related to the petroleum industry. This method is based on the use of the NIR technique with the aid of the FBRM technique. The NIR technique makes it possible to collect spectra and monitor the variation in absorbances, concerning the formation of particles of inorganic salts in the aqueous solution, while the FBRM technique provides the number and size of precipitated particles through the reflection of light emitted by a beam of Incident light in aqueous systems in the presence of different solvents, pH conditions, supersaturation, temperature and pressure.

Abstract: Techniques for performing horizontal reductions are described. In some examples, an instance of a horizontal instruction is to include at least one field for an opcode, one or more fields to reference a first source operand, and one or more fields to reference a destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is, in response to a decoded instance of the single instruction, to at least perform a horizontal reduction using at least one data element of a non-masked data element position of at least the first source operand and store a result of the horizontal reduction in the destination operand.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of computing comprises executing a software application, wherein the software application comprises at least first and second versions of a subroutine for performing a specific function, wherein the first version exhibits a first behavior and the second version exhibits a second behavior; and selecting for execution one of the first version or the second version based on whether one or more licensing criteria are satisfied. Optionally, the behavior of second version can be redefined on a user basis. The method can be implemented and distributed within software libraries.