During the last decade national archives, libraries, museums and companies started to make their records, books and files electronically available. In order to allow efficient ac...
Andreas Stoffel, David Spretke, Henrik Kinnemann, ...
The computing systems are becoming deeply embedded into ordinary life and interact with physical processes and events. They monitor the physical world with sensors and provide app...
Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
Real-time graphics hardware continues to offer improved resources for programmable vertex and fragment shaders. However, shader programmers continue to write shaders that require ...
Andrew Riffel, Aaron E. Lefohn, Kiril Vidimce, Mar...
Many applications of parallel I/O perform non-contiguous file accesses: instead of accessing a single (large) block of data in a file, a number of (smaller) blocks of data scatt...