The focus of this chapter is to review what is known about free and open source software development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics,...
Visualization is a powerful tool for analysing data and presenting results in science, engineering and medicine. This paper reviews ways in which it can be used in distributed and...
Ken Brodlie, David A. Duce, Julian R. Gallop, J. P...
We present a novel method to estimate an approximation of the reflectance characteristics of optically thick, homogeneous translucent materials using only a single photograph as ...
—MapReduce has emerged as a popular tool for distributed and scalable processing of massive data sets and is increasingly being used in e-science applications. Unfortunately, the...
Benjamin Gufler, Nikolaus Augsten, Angelika Reiser...
As the performance gap between the CPU and main memory continues to grow, techniques to hide memory latency are essential to deliver a high performance computer system. Prefetchin...