We introduce a new approach to three important problems in ray tracing: antialiasing, distributed light sources, and fuzzy reflections of lights and other surfaces. For antialias...
We describe Chromium, a system for manipulating streams of graphics API commands on clusters of workstations. Chromium's stream filters can be arranged to create sort-first a...
Greg Humphreys, Mike Houston, Ren Ng, Randall Fran...
Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
Abstract. Current multicore computers differ in many hardware aspects. Tuning parallel applications is indispensable to achieve best performance on a particular hardware platform....
Frank Otto, Christoph A. Schaefer, Matthias Dempe,...