After many years of prefetching research, most commercially available systems support only two types of prefetching: software-directed prefetching and hardware-based prefetchers u...
Low-overhead checkpointing and rollback is a popular technique for fault recovery. While different approaches are possible, hardware-supported checkpointing and rollback at the ca...
Significant improvement to visual quality for real-time 3D graphics requires modeling of complex illumination effects like soft-shadows, reflections, and diffuse lighting intera...
Venkatraman Govindaraju, Peter Djeu, Karthikeyan S...
—Accelerators are special purpose processors designed to speed up compute-intensive sections of applications. Two extreme endpoints in the spectrum of possible accelerators are F...
Shuai Che, Jie Li, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Kevin Skadr...