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CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Imprints of place: creative expressions of the museum experience
Personalization and social awareness, important aspects in the definition of a place, are traditionally overlooked in the design of technology for museums. We describe Imprints, a...
Kirsten Boehner, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Angela Zo...
TABLETOP
2008
IEEE
16 years 17 days ago
Experiences with building a thin form-factor touch and tangible tabletop
In this paper we describe extensions to our work on ThinSight, necessary to scale the system to larger tabletop displays. The technique integrates optical sensors into existing of...
Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, Steve Hodges, Darren W...
EUROPAR
2007
Springer
16 years 10 days ago
Experiences Understanding Performance in a Commercial Scale-Out Environment
Abstract. Clusters of loosely connected machines are becoming an important model for commercial computing. The cost/performance ratio makes these scale-out solutions an attractive ...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Reza Azimi, Mathieu Desnoyer...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
COMPaS: A Pentium Pro PC-based SMP Cluster and Its Experience
We have built an eight node SMP cluster called COMPaS (Cluster Of Multi-Processor Systems), each node of which is a quadprocessor Pentium Pro PC. We have designed and implemented a...
Yoshio Tanaka, Motohiko Matsuda, Makoto Ando, Kazu...
PADS
1996
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Experiments in Automated Load Balancing
One of the promises of parallelized discrete-event simulation is that it might provide significant speedups over sequential simulation. In reality, high performance cannot be achi...
Linda F. Wilson, David M. Nicol