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ESCIENCE
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing
Volunteer computing projects use a task server to manage work. Clients periodically communicate with the server to report completed tasks and get new tasks. The rate at which the ...
David P. Anderson, Eric Korpela, Rom Walton
EUROPAR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Hybrid CPU-GPU Platforms to Accelerate the Computation of the Matrix Sign Function
Abstract. We investigate the performance of two approaches for matrix inversion based on Gaussian (LU factorization) and Gauss-Jordan eliminations. The target architecture is a cur...
Peter Benner, Pablo Ezzatti, Enrique S. Quintana-O...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Feeling bumps and holes without a haptic interface: the perception of pseudo-haptic textures
We present a new interaction technique to simulate textures in desktop applications without a haptic interface. The proposed technique consists in modifying the motion of the curs...
Anatole Lécuyer, Jean-Marie Burkhardt, Laur...
VLSID
2009
IEEE
177views VLSI» more  VLSID 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Accelerating System-Level Design Tasks Using Commodity Graphics Hardware: A Case Study
Many system-level design tasks (e.g. timing analysis, hardware/software partitioning and design space exploration) involve computational kernels that are intractable (usually NP-ha...
Unmesh D. Bordoloi, Samarjit Chakraborty
HPCC
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Communication Broker for Nomadic Computing Systems
This paper presents the Esperanto Broker, a communication platform for nomadic computing applications. By using this broker, developers can model application components as a set of...
Domenico Cotroneo, Armando Migliaccio, Stefano Rus...