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2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Coordinating the use of GPU and CPU for improving performance of compute intensive applications
GPUs have recently evolved into very fast parallel co-processors capable of executing general purpose computations extremely efficiently. At the same time, multi-core CPUs evolutio...
George Teodoro, Rafael Sachetto Oliveira, Olcay Se...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed
Whether they are modeling bookmarking behavior in Flickr or cascades of failure in large networks, models of diffusion often start with the assumption that a few nodes start long ...
Eric Sun, Itamar Rosenn, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M....
CORR
2011
Springer
195views Education» more  CORR 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
Collective response of human populations to large-scale emergencies
Despite recent advances in uncovering the quantitative features of stationary human activity patterns, many applications, from pandemic prediction to emergency response, require a...
James P. Bagrow, Dashun Wang, Albert-Lászl&...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
193views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 7 months ago
Fast checkpoint recovery algorithms for frequently consistent applications
Advances in hardware have enabled many long-running applications to execute entirely in main memory. As a result, these applications have increasingly turned to database technique...
Tuan Cao, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Benjamin Sowe...