The adaptive and powerful coding schemes in H.264 provide significant coding efficiency and some additional merits like error resilience and network friendliness. In spite of thes...
In recent years, a lot of research effort has been dedicated to the management of Quality of Service (QoS), mainly in the fields of telecommunication networks and multimedia syste...
The paper presents Heterogeneous MPI (HMPI), an extension of MPI for programming high-performance computations on heterogeneous networks of computers. It allows the application pr...
This paper describes a heterogeneous computer cluster called Axel. Axel contains a collection of nodes; each node can include multiple types of accelerators such as FPGAs (Field P...
In this paper, we describe completed and ongoing work towards an interactive multimedia system that will appeal to today’s youth culture identified as most likely to adopt such ...