We present a novel mechanism, called meeting point thread characterization, to dynamically detect critical threads in a parallel region. We define the critical thread the one with...
We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
Dynamic error processing approaches are an important mechanism to increase the reliability in a multiprocessor system, while making efficient use of the available resources. To th...
Andrea Bondavalli, Silvano Chiaradonna, Felicita D...
Rendering high-quality computer animations requires intensive computation, and therefore a large amount of time. One way to speed up this process is to devise rendering algorithms...
While many pleasing effects are possible using the current VRML sound model [9], it falls short of producing convincing aural environments. Sound sources are not easily affected b...