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EGH
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Architecture considerations for tracing incoherent rays
This paper proposes a massively parallel hardware architecture for efficient tracing of incoherent rays, e.g. for global illumination. The general approach is centered around hier...
Timo Aila, Tero Karras
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Portable Optimizations for Loops Containing Communication Operations
Effective use of communication networks is critical to the performance and scalability of parallel applications. Partitioned Global Address Space languages like UPC bring the pro...
Costin Iancu, Wei Chen, Katherine A. Yelick
ISPASS
2003
IEEE
14 years 26 days ago
Performance study of a cluster runtime system for dynamic interactive stream-oriented applications
Emerging application domains such as interactive vision, animation, and multimedia collaboration display dynamic scalable parallelism, and high computational requirements, making ...
Arnab Paul, Nissim Harel, Sameer Adhikari, Bikash ...
FCCM
2009
IEEE
171views VLSI» more  FCCM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Accelerating SPICE Model-Evaluation using FPGAs
—Single-FPGA spatial implementations can provide an order of magnitude speedup over sequential microprocessor implementations for data-parallel, floating-point computation in SP...
Nachiket Kapre, André DeHon