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ASPLOS
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
StreamRay: a stream filtering architecture for coherent ray tracing
The wide availability of commodity graphics processors has made real-time graphics an intrinsic component of the human/computer interface. These graphics cores accelerate the z-bu...
Karthik Ramani, Christiaan P. Gribble, Al Davis
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PPOPP
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Efficient and scalable multiprocessor fair scheduling using distributed weighted round-robin
Fairness is an essential requirement of any operating system scheduler. Unfortunately, existing fair scheduling algorithms are either inaccurate or inefficient and non-scalable fo...
Tong Li, Dan P. Baumberger, Scott Hahn
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PPOPP
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Safe open-nested transactions through ownership
Researchers in transactional memory (TM) have proposed open nesting as a methodology for increasing the concurrency of transactional programs. The idea is to ignore "low-leve...
Kunal Agrawal, I.-Ting Angelina Lee, Jim Sukha
SPAA
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
The weakest failure detector for wait-free dining under eventual weak exclusion
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
Srikanth Sastry, Scott M. Pike, Jennifer L. Welch
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PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Load balancing without regret in the bulletin board model
We analyze the performance of protocols for load balancing in distributed systems based on no-regret algorithms from online learning theory. These protocols treat load balancing a...
Éva Tardos, Georgios Piliouras, Robert D. K...