We characterize high-performance streaming applications as a new and distinct domain of programs that is becoming increasingly important. The StreamIt language provides novel high-...
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Saman P. Amarasi...
Flash memory has become the most important storage media in mobile devices, and is beginning to replace hard disks in desktop systems. However, its relatively poor random write pe...
Abstract—A key parameter affecting the operation of differential evolution (DE) is the crossover rate Cr ∈ [0, 1]. While very low values are recommended for and used with separ...
Although many image processing applications are ideally suited for parallel implementation, most researchers in imaging do not benefit from high performance computing on a daily b...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...