This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
This paper describes VolumePro, the world’s first single-chip realtime volume rendering system for consumer PCs. VolumePro implements ray-casting with parallel slice-by-slice p...
Hanspeter Pfister, Jan Hardenbergh, Jim Knittel, H...
MAD (Movie Authoring and Design) is a novel design and authoring system that facilitates the process of creating dynamic visual presentations such as motion pictures and lecture-d...
Ronald Baecker, Alan J. Rosenthal, Naomi Friedland...
Applications in Computer Networks often require high throughput access to large data structures for lookup and classification. Many advanced algorithms exist to speed these searc...
Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...