Capturing surface appearance is important for a large number of applications. Appearance of real world surfaces is dif?cult to model as it varies with the direction of illuminatio...
—Bulk memory copying and initialization is one of the most ubiquitous operations performed in current computer systems by both user applications and Operating Systems. While many...
Xiaowei Jiang, Yan Solihin, Li Zhao, Ravishankar I...
“Is transactional memory useful?” is the question that cannot be answered until we provide substantial applications that can evaluate its capabilities. While existing TM appli...
Vladimir Gajinov, Ferad Zyulkyarov, Osman S. Unsal...
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
—Many large-scale distributed systems can benefit from a service that allows them to select among alternative nodes based on their relative network positions. A variety of appro...