We present lessons learned from developing Alice, a 3D graphics programming environment designed for undergraduates with no 3D graphics or programming experience. Alice is a Windo...
Matthew Conway, Steve Audia, Tommy Burnette, Denni...
As our society becomes more information-driven, we have begun to amass data at an astounding and accelerating rate. At the same time, power concerns have made it difficult to brin...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Laura M. Grupp, Steven Swanso...
As high-end computing systems continue to grow in scale, recent advances in multiand many-core architectures have pushed such growth toward more denser architectures, that is, mor...
Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, Will...
A quantitative analysis of program execution is essential to the computer architecture design process. With the current trend in architecture of enhancing the performance of unipr...
This paper describes a novel approach to performance analysis for parallel and distributed systems that is based on soft computing. We introduce the concept of performance score re...