Determination of data dependences is a task typically performed with high-level language source code in today's optimizing and parallelizing compilers. Very little work has b...
Wolfram Amme, Peter Braun, Eberhard Zehendner, Fra...
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...
Simulating realistic lighting and rendering complex scenes are usually considered separate problems with incompatible solutions. Accurate lighting calculations are typically perfo...
Matt Pharr, Craig E. Kolb, Reid Gershbein, Pat Han...
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
Persistent programming systems are generally supported by an object store, a conceptually infinite object repository. Objects in such a repository cannot be directly accessed by u...