In this paper, XfaceEd, our open source, platform independent tool for authoring 3D embodied conversational agents (ECAs) is presented. Following MPEG-4 Facial Animation (FA) stan...
A large and increasing gap exists between processor and memory speeds in scalable cache-coherent multiprocessors. To cope with this situation, programmers and compiler writers mus...
Existing supercomputers have hundreds of thousands of processor cores, and future systems may have hundreds of millions. Developers need detailed performance measurements to tune ...
Todd Gamblin, Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz...
What is the career path for a performance analyst? A capacity planner? Most technicians paid their dues in the trenches of systems programming or operations. Having done it all, t...
The TORCS Endurance World Championship is an international competition in which programmers develop and tune their drivers to race against each other using TORCS, a state-of-the-ar...
Luigi Cardamone, Daniele Loiacono, Pier Luca Lanzi