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EUROGRAPHICS
2010
Eurographics
14 years 6 months ago
Fast Ray Sorting and Breadth-First Packet Traversal for GPU Ray Tracing
We present a novel approach to ray tracing execution on commodity graphics hardware using CUDA. We decompose a standard ray tracing algorithm into several data-parallel stages tha...
Kirill Garanzha and Charles Loop
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Cleanly: trashducation urban system
Half the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas by 2020. The high human density and changes in peoples’ consumption habits result in an everincreasing amount of...
Inbal Reif, Florian Alt, Juan David Hincapié...
BTW
2009
Springer
146views Database» more  BTW 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Towards Flash Disk Use in Databases - Keeping Performance While Saving Energy?
Abstract: Green computing or energy saving when processing information is primarily considered a task of processor development. We, however, advocate that a holistic approach is ne...
Theo Härder, Karsten Schmidt 0002, Yi Ou, Seb...
ECWEB
2009
Springer
130views ECommerce» more  ECWEB 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Perspectives for Web Service Intermediaries: How Influence on Quality Makes the Difference
Abstract. In the service-oriented computing paradigm and the Web service architecture, the broker role is a key facilitator to leverage technical capabilities of loose coupling to ...
Ulrich Scholten, Robin Fischer, Christian Zirpins
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Scalable Techniques for Transparent Privatization in Software Transactional Memory
—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...