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SMI
2005
IEEE
16 years 2 days ago
Designing with Distance Fields
Distance fields provide an implicit representation of shape that has advantages in many application areas; in this overview, we focus on their use in digital design. Distance fi...
Sarah F. Frisken, Ronald N. Perry
POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Dynamic heap type inference for program understanding and debugging
C programs can be difficult to debug due to lax type enforcement and low-level access to memory. We present a dynamic analysis for C that checks heap snapshots for consistency wit...
Ben Liblit, Chloë W. Schulze, Marina Polishch...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Column-stores vs. row-stores: how different are they really?
There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madden, Nabil Hachem
ICDCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Reducing Disk I/O Performance Sensitivity for Large Numbers of Sequential Streams
Retrieving sequential rich media content from modern commodity disks is a challenging task. As disk capacity increases, there is a need to increase the number of streams that are ...
George Panagiotakis, Michail Flouris, Angelos Bila...
WETICE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Cloud Computing and the Lessons from the Past
— The skyrocketing demand for a new generation of cloud-based consumer and business applications is driving the need for next generation of datacenters that must be massively sca...
Rao Mikkilineni, Vijay Sarathy