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SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Rendering with coherent layers
For decades, animated cartoons and movie special effects have factored the rendering of a scene into layers that are updated independently and composed in the final display. We ap...
Jed Lengyel, John Snyder
SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Metropolis light transport
We present a new Monte Carlo method for solving the light transport problem, inspired by the Metropolis sampling method in computational physics. To render an image, we generate a...
Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
164views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1997»
15 years 11 months ago
File Server Scaling with Network-Attached Secure Disks
By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
160views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
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Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes
: The read-mostly environment of data warehousing makes it possible to use more complex indexes to speed up queries than in situations where concurrent updatesare present. The curr...
Patrick E. O'Neil, Dallan Quass
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
125views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
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The Distributed Information Search Component (Disco) and the World Wide Web
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
Anthony Tomasic, Rémy Amouroux, Philippe Bo...
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