Abstract. An algorithm for simulating diffuse interreflection in complex three dimensional scenes is described. It combines techniques from hierarchical radiosity and multiresolut...
Andrew J. Willmott, Paul S. Heckbert, Michael Garl...
This paper presents and evaluates a set of analyses designed to reduce synchronization overhead in Java programs. Monitor-based synchronization in Java often causes significant ove...
Highly aggressive multi-issue processor designs of the past few years and projections for the next decade require that we redesign the operation of the cache memory system. The nu...
Jude A. Rivers, Gary S. Tyson, Edward S. Davidson,...
The floor acquisition multiple access (FAMA) discipline is analyzed in networks with hidden terminals. According to FAMA, control of the channel (the floor) is assigned to at mo...
Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson