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CVPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
An LED-only BRDF measurement device
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) can be used as light detectors and as light emitters. In this paper, we present a novel BRDF measurement device consisting exclusively of LEDs. Our de...
Moshe Ben-Ezra, Jiaping Wang, Bennett Wilburn, Xia...
PPOPP
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Revocable locks for non-blocking programming
In this paper we present a new form of revocable lock that streamlines the construction of higher level concurrency abstractions such as atomic multi-word heap updates. The key id...
Tim Harris, Keir Fraser
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An Evolutionary Approach to Multiprocessor Scheduling of Dependent Tasks
The scheduling of application tasks is a problem that occurs in all multiprocessor systems. This problem becomes even more complicated if the tasks are not independent but are inte...
Roman Nossal
EUROPAR
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Meaningful Metrics for Evaluating Eventual Consistency
Abstract. Optimistic replication is a fundamental technique for supporting collaborative work practices in mobile environments. However, eventual consistency, in contrast to immedi...
João Barreto, Paulo Ferreira
TCS
1998
14 years 11 months ago
ERCW PRAMs and Optical Communication
This paper presents algorithms and lower bounds for several fundamental problems on the Exclusive Read, Concurrent Write Parallel Random Access Machine (ERCW PRAM) and some result...
Philip D. MacKenzie, Vijaya Ramachandran