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ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
COMPASS: a programmable data prefetcher using idle GPU shaders
A traditional fixed-function graphics accelerator has evolved into a programmable general-purpose graphics processing unit over the last few years. These powerful computing cores...
Dong Hyuk Woo, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee
EMSOFT
2007
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Verification of device drivers and intelligent controllers: a case study
The soundness of device drivers generally cannot be verified in isolation, but has to take into account the reactions of the hardware devices. In critical embedded systems, interf...
David Monniaux
ICS
2000
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months ago
Push vs. pull: data movement for linked data structures
As the performance gap between the CPU and main memory continues to grow, techniques to hide memory latency are essential to deliver a high performance computer system. Prefetchin...
Chia-Lin Yang, Alvin R. Lebeck
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
OLTP through the looking glass, and what we found there
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases include a suite of features -- disk-resident B-trees and heap files, locking-based concurrency control, support for multi-threading ...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madd...
VISSYM
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Isosurface Computation Made Simple
This paper presents a simple approach for rendering isosurfaces of a scalar field. Using the vertex programming capability of commodity graphics cards, we transfer the cost of com...
Valerio Pascucci