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IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Improving numerical reproducibility and stability in large-scale numerical simulations on GPUs
The advent of general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU's) brings about a whole new platform for running numerically intensive applications at high speeds. Their multi-...
Michela Taufer, Omar Padron, Philip Saponaro, Sand...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
161views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Physical simulation for animation and visual effects: parallelization and characterization for chip multiprocessors
We explore the emerging application area of physics-based simulation for computer animation and visual special effects. In particular, we examine its parallelization potential and...
Christopher J. Hughes, Radek Grzeszczuk, Eftychios...
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
14 years 1 months ago
Streamlining GPU applications on the fly: thread divergence elimination through runtime thread-data remapping
Because of their tremendous computing power and remarkable cost efficiency, GPUs (graphic processing unit) have quickly emerged as an influential computing platform for a broad ...
Eddy Z. Zhang, Yunlian Jiang, Ziyu Guo, Xipeng She...
PVM
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Architecture for a Multi-threaded Harness Kernel
Abstract. Harness is a reconÞgurable, heterogeneous distributed metacomputing framework for the dynamic conÞguration of distributed virtual machines, through the use of parallel ...
Wael R. Elwasif, David E. Bernholdt, James Arthur ...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
How to barter bits for chronons: compression and bandwidth trade offs for database scans
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...