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OSDI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
IV
2009
IEEE
187views Visualization» more  IV 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Mapping of Raster-Data for 3D Geovirtual Environments
Interactive 3D geovirtual environments (GeoVE), such as 3D virtual city and landscape models, are important tools to communicate geo-spatial information. Usually, this includes st...
Matthias Trapp, Jürgen Döllner
CGF
2004
158views more  CGF 2004»
14 years 9 months ago
Combined Correlated and Importance Sampling in Direct Light Source Computation and Environment Mapping
This paper presents a general variance reduction method that is a quasi-optimal combination of correlated and importance sampling. The weights of the combination are selected auto...
László Szécsi, Mateu Sbert, L...
VTC
2010
IEEE
134views Communications» more  VTC 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Wireless Schedulers with Future Sight via Real-Time 3D Environment Mapping
—This paper proposes a new wireless scheduling methodology which takes advantage of future predictions of data rate for the several users competing for physical access. Based on ...
Matthew Webb, Congzheng Han, Angela Doufexi, Mark ...
RT
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Realistic Reflections and Refractions on Graphics Hardware with Hybrid Rendering and Layered Environment Maps
We introduce hybrid rendering, a scheme that dynamically ray traces the local geometry of reflective and refractive objects, but approximates more distant geometry by hardwaresupp...
Ziyad S. Hakura, John M. Snyder