Rapid commoditization of advanced hardware and progress of networking technology is now making wide area high-performance computing a.k.a. the ‘Grid’ Computing a reality. Sinc...
Depth traffic occupies a major portion of 3D graphics memory bandwidth. In order to reduce depth reading, we propose employing a low-resolution depth buffer, namely CoarseZ buffer...
Ke Yang, Ke Gao, Jiaoying Shi, Xiaohong Jiang, Hua...
The past few decades have witnessed a chronic and widening imbalance among processor bandwidth, disk capacity, and access speed of disk. According to Amdhal's law, the perfor...
Despite a large research effort, software distributed shared memory systems have not been widely used to run parallel applications across clusters of computers. The higher perform...
Characterizing shared-memory applications provides insight to design efficient systems, and provides awareness to identify and correct application performance bottlenecks. Configu...