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ERSA
2009
149views Hardware» more  ERSA 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Hardware-Optimized Ziggurat Algorithm for High-Speed Gaussian Random Number Generators
Many scientific and engineering applications, which are increasingly being ported from software to reconfigurable platforms, require Gaussian-distributed random numbers. Thus, the...
Hassan Edrees, Brian Cheung, McCullen Sandora, Dav...
CORR
2011
Springer
177views Education» more  CORR 2011»
15 years 1 months ago
A Truthful Randomized Mechanism for Combinatorial Public Projects via Convex Optimization
In Combinatorial Public Projects, there is a set of projects that may be undertaken, and a set of selfinterested players with a stake in the set of projects chosen. A public plann...
Shaddin Dughmi
CIDR
2011
223views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
No bits left behind
One of the key tenets of database system design is making efficient use of storage and memory resources. However, existing database system implementations are actually extremely ...
Eugene Wu 0002, Carlo Curino, Samuel Madden
ICDE
2010
IEEE
248views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
16 years 6 months ago
FPGA Acceleration for the Frequent Item Problem
Abstract-- Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can provide performance advantages with a lower resource consumption (e.g., energy) than conventional CPUs. In this paper, we show...
Gustavo Alonso, Jens Teubner, René Mül...
VIS
2004
IEEE
115views Visualization» more  VIS 2004»
16 years 8 months ago
Visualization in Grid Computing Environments
Grid computing provides a challenge for visualization system designers. In this research, we evolve the dataflow concept to allow parts of the visualization process to be executed...
Ken Brodlie, David A. Duce, Julian R. Gallop, Musb...