Image processing applications tend to access their data non-sequentially and reuse that data infrequently. As a result, they tend to perform poorly on conventional memory systems ...
Lixin Zhang, John B. Carter, Wilson C. Hsieh, Sall...
In developing High-Performance Computing (HPC) software, time to solution is an important metric. This metric is comprised of two main components: the human effort required develo...
PARAMICS is a PARAllel MICroscopic Traffic Simulator which is, to our knowledge, the most powerful of its type in the world. The simulator can model around 200,000 vehicles on aro...
Soft shadows and penumbra regions generated by extended light sources such as linear and area lights are visual effects that significantly contribute to the realism of a scene. In ...
Wolfgang Heidrich, Stefan Brabec, Hans-Peter Seide...
This paper presents an accelerator for k-th nearest neighbor thinning, a run time intensive algorithmic kernel used in recent multi-objective optimizers. We discuss the thinning al...
Tobias Schumacher, Robert Meiche, Paul Kaufmann, E...