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TOG
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Combining global and local virtual lights for detailed glossy illumination
Accurately rendering glossy materials in design applications, where previewing and interactivity are important, remains a major challenge. While many fast global illumination solu...
Tomás Davidovic, Jaroslav Krivánek, ...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
248views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Llama: leveraging columnar storage for scalable join processing in the MapReduce framework
To achieve high reliability and scalability, most large-scale data warehouse systems have adopted the cluster-based architecture. In this paper, we propose the design of a new clu...
Yuting Lin, Divyakant Agrawal, Chun Chen, Beng Chi...
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Visualizing web site comparisons
The Web is increasingly becoming an important channel for conducting businesses, disseminating information, and communicating with people on a global scale. More and more companie...
Bing Liu, Kaidi Zhao, Lan Yi
ICDE
2010
IEEE
244views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Reliable Storage and Querying for Collaborative Data Sharing Systems
The sciences, business confederations, and medicine urgently need infrastructure for sharing data and updates among collaborators' constantly changing, heterogeneous databases...
Nicholas E. Taylor, Zachary G. Ives
HPDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Maintaining reference graphs of globally accessible objects in fully decentralized distributed systems
Since the advent of electronic computing, the processors’ clock speed has risen tremendously. Now that energy efficiency requirements have stopped that trend, the number of proc...
Björn Saballus, Thomas Fuhrmann