The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov Chain Mont...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, A. H. Bhal...
Commodity symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), though originally intended for transaction processing, because of their availability, are now used for numerical analysis applications ...
For lighting simulations in architecture there is the need for correct illumination calculation of virtual scenes. The Radiance Synthetic Imaging System delivers an excellent solut...
Using off-the-shelf commodity workstations and PCs to build a cluster for parallel computing has become a common practice. A choice of a cost-effective cluster computing platform ...