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SODA
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Minimizing the stabbing number of matchings, trees, and triangulations
The (axis-parallel) stabbing number of a given set of line segments is the maximum number of segments that can be intersected by any one (axis-parallel) line. We investigate probl...
Sándor P. Fekete, Marco E. Lübbecke, H...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Design of Fast Pseudo-Random Number Generators for the Cell Broadband Engine and an Application to Risk Analysis
Numerical simulations in computational physics, biology, and finance, often require the use of high quality and efficient parallel random number generators. We design and optimi...
David A. Bader, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Virat ...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Faster Generation of Random Spanning Trees
In this paper, we set forth a new algorithm for generating approximately uniformly random spanning trees in undirected graphs. We show how to sample from a distribution that is wi...
Jonathan A. Kelner, Aleksander Madry
SPAA
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Implementing and evaluating nested parallel transactions in software transactional memory
Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising technique that simplifies parallel programming for shared-memory applications. To date, most TM systems have been designed to efficientl...
Woongki Baek, Nathan Grasso Bronson, Christos Kozy...
SIPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Efficient mapping of advanced signal processing algorithms on multi-processor architectures
Modern microprocessor technology is migrating from simply increasing clock speeds on a single processor to placing multiple processors on a die to increase throughput and power pe...
Bhavana B. Manjunath, Aaron S. Williams, Chaitali ...