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PVM
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Toward Performance Models of MPI Implementations for Understanding Application Scaling Issues
Abstract. Designing and tuning parallel applications with MPI, particularly at large scale, requires understanding the performance implications of different choices of algorithms ...
Torsten Hoefler, William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur, Jes...
PDCN
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Speculative prefetching of optional locks in distributed systems
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
Thomas Schöbel-Theuer
FECS
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
On Summer Schools, Building Student Teams and Linking Undergraduate Education to Research
We report on summer student programmes and activities we have run, or contributed towards, for undergraduate students at Universities in the UK; in the USA; in Australia and in Ne...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James, Christie James,...
ARCS
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Adaptive Object Acquisition
We propose an active vision system for object acquisition. The core of our approach is a reinforcement learning module which learns a strategy to scan an object. The agent moves a...
Gabriele Peters, Claus-Peter Alberts, Markus Bries...
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ICIP
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Directional interpolation of noisy images
Most of the existing image interpolation schemes assume that the image is noise free. This assumption is invalid in practice because noise will be corrupted in the image acquisiti...
Lei Zhang, Xin Li