Rapid increases in computing and communication performance are exacerbating the long-standing problem of performance-limited input/output. Indeed, for many otherwise scalable para...
Phyllis Crandall, Ruth A. Aydt, Andrew A. Chien, D...
The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...
While a number of different shading languages have been developed, their efficient integration into an existing renderer is notoriously difficult, often boiling down to implementi...
Ralf Karrenberg, Dmitri Rubinstein, Philipp Slusal...
High fidelity rendering via ray tracing requires tracing incoherent rays for global illumination and other secondary effects. Recent research show that the performance benefits fr...
Technology scaling in integrated circuits has consistently provided dramatic performance improvements in modern microprocessors. However, increasing device counts and decreasing o...