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VLDB
2004
ACM
114views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
16 years 4 days ago
Hardware Acceleration in Commercial Databases: A Case Study of Spatial Operations
Traditional databases have focused on the issue of reducing I/O cost as it is the bottleneck in many operations. As databases become increasingly accepted in areas such as Geograp...
Nagender Bandi, Chengyu Sun, Amr El Abbadi, Divyak...
ERSA
2006
129views Hardware» more  ERSA 2006»
15 years 8 months ago
Group-Alignment based Accurate Floating-Point Summation on FPGAs
Floating-point summation is one of the most important operations in scientific/numerical computing applications and also a basic subroutine (SUM) in BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Sub...
Chuan He, Guan Qin, Mi Lu, Wei Zhao
CORR
2002
Springer
136views Education» more  CORR 2002»
15 years 6 months ago
Libra: An Economy driven Job Scheduling System for Clusters
Clusters of computers have emerged as mainstream parallel and distributed platforms for high-performance, highthroughput and high-availability computing. To enable effective resou...
Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Nausheen Lotia, Za...
EGH
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Parallel SAH k-D tree construction
The k-D tree is a well-studied acceleration data structure for ray tracing. It is used to organize primitives in a scene to allow efficient execution of intersection operations be...
Byn Choi, Rakesh Komuravelli, Victor Lu, Hyojin Su...
TAPIA
2005
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
The challenges of ambient collaboration
Collaborative capabilities are a hallmark of a new generation of networked applications. While traditional collaboration puts the computer in the foreground to help users interfac...
Hans-Peter Dommel