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Today Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a largely underexploited resource on existing desktops and a possible costeffective enhancement to high-performance systems. To date, mo...
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The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...