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IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Composite Abortable Locks
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
Virendra J. Marathe, Mark Moir, Nir Shavit
VRCAI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Parallel-split shadow maps for large-scale virtual environments
Shadowing effects dramatically enhance the realism of virtual environments by providing useful visual cues. Shadow mapping is an efficient algorithm for real-time shadow renderin...
Fan Zhang, Hanqiu Sun, Leilei Xu, Lee Kit Lun
ICDCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
DISC: Dynamic Interleaved Segment Caching for Interactive Streaming
Streaming media objects have become widely used on the Internet, and the demand of interactive requests to these objects has increased dramatically. Typical interactive requests i...
Lei Guo, Songqing Chen, Zhen Xiao, Xiaodong Zhang
PODC
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On the locality of bounded growth
Many large-scale networks such as ad hoc and sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks, or the Internet have the property that the number of independent nodes does not grow arbitrari...
Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
14 years 3 months ago
Disk layout optimization for reducing energy consumption
Excessive power consumption is becoming a major barrier to extracting the maximum performance from high-performance parallel systems. Therefore, techniques oriented towards reduci...
Seung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir