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SIGGRAPH
1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Direct Illumination with Lazy Visibility Evaluation
In this paper we present a technique for computing the direct lighting in a three-dimensional scene containing area light sources. Our method correctly handles partial visibility ...
David Hart, Philip Dutré, Donald P. Greenbe...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 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...
ICPP
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Offline Algorithm for Dimension-Bound Analysis
The vector-clock size necessary to characterize causality in a distributed computation is bounded by the dimension of the partial order induced by that computation. In an arbitrar...
Paul A. S. Ward
CANPC
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Implementing Application-Specific Cache-Coherence Protocols in Configurable Hardware
Streamlining communication is key to achieving good performance in shared-memory parallel programs. While full hardware support for cache coherence generally offers the best perfo...
David Brooks, Margaret Martonosi
ISCA
1999
IEEE
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The Block-Based Trace Cache
The trace cache is a recently proposed solution to achieving high instruction fetch bandwidth by buffering and reusing dynamic instruction traces. This work presents a new block-b...
Bryan Black, Bohuslav Rychlik, John Paul Shen