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EGH
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Parallel SAH k-D tree construction
The k-D tree is a well-studied acceleration data structure for ray tracing. It is used to organize primitives in a scene to allow efficient execution of intersection operations be...
Byn Choi, Rakesh Komuravelli, Victor Lu, Hyojin Su...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Subthreshold logical effort: a systematic framework for optimal subthreshold device sizing
Subthreshold circuit designs have been demonstrated to be a successful alternative when ultra-low power consumption is paramount. However, the characteristics of MOS transistors i...
John Keane, Hanyong Eom, Tae-Hyoung Kim, Sachin S....
AAMAS
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing fixed-size stochastic controllers for POMDPs and decentralized POMDPs
POMDPs and their decentralized multiagent counterparts, DEC-POMDPs, offer a rich framework for sequential decision making under uncertainty. Their computational complexity, howeve...
Christopher Amato, Daniel S. Bernstein, Shlomo Zil...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
112views Hardware» more  ISCA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enhancing both Performance and Fairness of Shared DRAM Systems
In a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) system, the DRAM system is shared among cores. In a shared DRAM system, requests from a thread can not only delay requests from other threads by cau...
Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda
USENIX
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Transparent Fault Tolerance for Parallel Applications on Networks of Workstations
This paper describes a new method for providingtransparent fault tolerance for parallel applications on a network of workstations. We have designed our method in the context of sh...
Daniel J. Scales, Monica S. Lam