Rendering animations of scenes with deformable objects, camera motion, and complex illumination, including indirect lighting and arbitrary shading, is a long-standing challenge. P...
This paper gives an overview of two middleware systems that have been developed over the last 6 years to address the challenges involved in developing parallel and distributed imp...
The major chip manufacturers have all introduced chip multiprocessing (CMP) and simultaneous multithreading (SMT) technology into their processing units. As a result, even low-end...
—Immediate notification of urgent but rare events and delivery of time sensitive actuation commands appear in many practical wireless sensor and actuator network applications. M...
Computational Grids potentially offer low cost, readily available, and large-scale high-performance platforms. For the parallel execution of programs, however, computational GRIDs ...
Abdallah Al Zain, Philip W. Trinder, Greg Michaels...