The fast identification of shadow regions due to area light sources is necessary for realistic rendering and for discontinuity meshing for global illumination. A new shadow-determ...
—The industry is now in agreement that the future of architecture design lies in multiple cores. As a consequence, all computer systems today, from embedded devices to petascale ...
As bioinformatics is an emerging application of high performance computing, this paper first evaluates the memory performance of several representative bioinformatics application...
Guangming Tan, Lin Xu, Shengzhong Feng, Ninghui Su...
Extracting only the visible portion of an isosurface can improve both the computation efficiency and the rendering speed. However, the visibility test overhead can be quite high ...
Multicore processors have become ubiquitous in today’s systems, but exploiting the parallelism they offer remains difficult, especially for legacy application and applications ...