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CF
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Core monitors: monitoring performance in multicore processors
As we reach the limits of single-core computing, we are promised more and more cores in our systems. Modern architectures include many performance counters per core, but few or no...
Paul E. West, Yuval Peress, Gary S. Tyson, Sally A...
CF
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Wave field synthesis for 3D audio: architectural prospectives
In this paper, we compare the architectural perspectives of the Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) 3D-audio algorithm mapped on three different platforms: a General Purpose Processor (GP...
Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Catalin Bogdan Ciobanu, G...
CF
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Space-and-time efficient garbage collectors for parallel systems
As multithreaded server applications and runtime systems prevail, garbage collection is becoming an essential feature to support high performance systems. The fundamental issue of...
Shaoshan Liu, Ligang Wang, Xiao-Feng Li, Jean-Luc ...
UC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Membrane Dissolution and Division in P
Membrane systems with dividing and dissolving membranes are known to solve PSPACE problems in polynomial time. However, we give a P upperbound on an important restriction of such s...
Damien Woods, Niall Murphy, Mario J. Pérez-...
UC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Abstract Geometrical Computation and Computable Analysis
Geometrical Computation and Computable Analysis J´erˆome Durand-Lose⋆ Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale d’Orl´eans, Universit´e d’Orl´eans, B.P. 6759, F-45067 OR...
Jérôme Durand-Lose
UC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Resource-Competing Oscillator Network as a Model of Amoeba-Based Neurocomputer
Abstract. An amoeboid organism, Physarum, exhibits rich spatiotemporal oscillatory behavior and various computational capabilities. Previously, the authors created a recurrent neur...
Masashi Aono, Yoshito Hirata, Masahiko Hara, Kazuy...
UC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Random Number Selection in Self-assembly
Abstract. We investigate methods for exploiting nondeterminism inherent within the Tile Assembly Model in order to generate uniform random numbers. Namely, given an integer range {...
David Doty, Jack H. Lutz, Matthew J. Patitz, Scott...
UC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Evolvable Hardware: From Applications to Implications for the Theory of Computation
The paper surveys the fundamental principles of evolvable hardware, introduces main problems of the field and briefly describes the most successful applications. Although evolvab...
Lukás Sekanina
UC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On the Brightness of the Thomson Lamp: A Prolegomenon to Quantum Recursion Theory
Some physical aspects related to the limit operations of the Thomson lamp are discussed. Regardless of the formally unbounded and even infinite number of “steps” involved, the...
Karl Svozil
UC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Mapping Computation with No Memory
Serge Burckel, Emeric Gioan, Emmanuel Thomé