We introduce billboard clouds – a new approach for extreme simplification in the context of real-time rendering. 3D models are simplified onto a set of planes with texture and...
Internet topology information is only made available in aggregate form by standard routing protocols. Connectivity information and latency characteristicsmust therefore be inferre...
In this paper, we provide examples of how thread-level speculation (TLS) simplifies manual parallelization and enhances its performance. A number of techniques for manual parallel...
We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Takayuki Osogami, ...
We present a new method for taking advantage of the relative independence between parts of a single-player game. We describe an implementation for improving the search in a solitai...