Grid computing has emerged as a new paradigm of distributed computing technology on large-scale resource sharing and coordinated problem solving. Based on a proposed Web service-b...
Ray tracing is a technique used for generating highly realistic computer graphics images. In this paper, we explore the design of a simple but extremely parallel, multi-threaded, ...
Josef B. Spjut, Solomon Boulos, Daniel Kopta, Erik...
The floating-point multiply-add fused (MAF) unit sets a new trend in the processor design to speed up floatingpoint performance in scientific and multimedia applications. This ...
Commodity accelerator technologies including reconfigurable devices provide an order of magnitude performance improvement compared to mainstream microprocessor systems. A number o...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Melissa C. Smith
The performance of MPI collective operations, such as broadcast and reduction, is heavily affected by network topologies, especially in grid environments. Many techniques to cons...