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SIGGRAPH
2009
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
RACBVHs: random-accessible compressed bounding volume hierarchies
We present a novel bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) compression and decompression method transparently supporting random access on the compressed BVHs. To support random access on ...
Tae-Joon Kim, Bochang Moon, Duksu Kim, Sung-Eui Yo...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
123views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
16 years 5 days ago
Template-Based Semi-Automatic Profiling of Multimedia Applications
Modern multimedia applications possess a very dynamic use of the memory hierarchy depending on the actual input, therefore requiring run-time profiling techniques to enable optim...
Christophe Poucet, David Atienza, Francky Catthoor
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HPCA
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
The Sensitivity of Communication Mechanisms to Bandwidth and Latency
The goal of this paper is to gain insight into the relative performance of communication mechanisms as bisection bandwidth and network latency vary. We compare shared memory with ...
Frederic T. Chong, Rajeev Barua, Fredrik Dahlgren,...
ASAP
2007
IEEE
135views Hardware» more  ASAP 2007»
16 years 14 days ago
An Application Specific Memory Characterization Technique for Co-processor Accelerators
Commodity accelerator technologies including reconfigurable devices provide an order of magnitude performance improvement compared to mainstream microprocessor systems. A number o...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Melissa C. Smith
HPCA
1999
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Limits to the Performance of Software Shared Memory: A Layered Approach
Much research has been done in fast communication on clusters and in protocols for supporting software shared memory across them. However, the end performance of applications that...
Angelos Bilas, Dongming Jiang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Jasw...