Volume caustics are intricate illumination patterns formed by light first interacting with a specular surface and subsequently being scattered inside a participating medium. Alth...
Wei Hu, Zhao Dong, Ivo Ihrke, Thorsten Grosch, Guo...
In this paper, we present an early performance evaluation of a 624-core cluster based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5560 (code named “Nehalem-EP”, and referred to as Xeon 55...
r of high-level languages lies in their abstraction over hardware and software complexity, leading to greater security, better reliability, and lower development costs. However, o...
Daniel Frampton, Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng...
To sustain emerging data-intensive scientific applications, High Performance Computing (HPC) centers invest a notable fraction of their operating budget on a specialized fast sto...
Henry M. Monti, Ali Raza Butt, Sudharshan S. Vazhk...
A synthetic noise function is a key component of most computer graphics rendering systems. This pseudo-random noise function is used to create a wide variety of natural looking te...