Given a scene consisting of objects, ray shooting queries answer with the first object encountered by a given ray, and are used in ray tracing and radiosity for rendering photo-r...
Compiler technology for multimedia extensions must effectively utilize not only the SIMD compute engines but also the various levels of the memory hierarchy: superword registers,...
Chun Chen, Jaewook Shin, Shiva Kintali, Jacqueline...
Modern embedded compute platforms increasingly contain both microprocessors and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The FPGAs may implement accelerators or other circuits to s...
Customer-reported field failures provide valuable information for the requirements of the next release. Without a systematic approach, the requirements of the next release may not...
The InTENsity PowerWall is a display system used for high-resolution visualization of very large volumetric data sets. The display is linked to two separate computing environments...
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