Significant improvement to visual quality for real-time 3D graphics requires modeling of complex illumination effects like soft-shadows, reflections, and diffuse lighting intera...
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Higher level of resource integration and the addition of new features in modern multi-processors put a significant pressure on their verification. Although a large amount of res...
—Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for helping programmers take advantage of emerging multicore platforms. Though they perform well under low contention, hardware...
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Uniprocessor simulators track resource utilization cycle by cycle to estimate performance. Multiprocessor simulators, however, must account for synchronization events that increas...
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Optimizing the common case has been an adage in decades of processor design practices. However, as the system complexity and optimization techniques’ sophistication have increas...