Caches have become invaluable for higher-end architectures to hide, in part, the increasing gap between processor speed and memory access times. While the effect of caches on timi...
For decades, animated cartoons and movie special effects have factored the rendering of a scene into layers that are updated independently and composed in the final display. We ap...
High performance general-purpose processors are increasingly being used for a variety of application domains scienti c, engineering, databases, and more recently, media processing...
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Sarita V. Adve, Norman ...