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Technical Perspective: Mapping the Universe
"HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures" describes the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC) framework, which uses a novel...
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HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures
In this Research Highlight, we demonstrate the success of HACC on two very different machines, the CPU/GPU system Titan and the BG/Q systems Sequoia and Mira, attaining...
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Technical Perspective: Magnifying Motions the Right Way
"Eulerian Video Magnification and Analysis" demonstrates that phase differences at a given frequency band, due to subtle motions in a video, can be independently...
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Eulerian Video Magnification and Analysis
We present Eulerian Video Magnification, a computational technique for visualizing subtle color and motion variations in ordinary videos by making the variations...
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Technical Perspective: 3D Image Editing Made Easy
The authors of "Extracting 3D Objects from Photographs Using 3-Sweep" present an important step toward achieving 3D editing.
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Extracting 3D Objects from Photographs Using 3-Sweep
We introduce an interactive technique to extract and manipulate simple 3D shapes in a single photograph.
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Technical Perspective: If I Could Only Design One Circuit . . .
"DianNao Family: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators for Machine Learning" shows a deep understanding of both neural net implementations and the issues in computer...
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Diannao Family: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerators For Machine Learning
We introduce a series of hardware accelerators (i.e., the DianNao family) designed for Machine Learning (especially neural networks), with a special emphasis on...
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Technical Perspective: Jupiter Rising
As "Jupiter Rising" makes clear, many of the Internet mechanisms for maintaining large-scale networks are suboptimal when the datacenter is largely homogeneous,...
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Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google's Datacenter Network
We present our approach for overcoming the cost, operational complexity, and limited scale endemic to datacenter networks a decade ago.
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Technical Perspective: The Dawn of Computational Light Transport
What would the world look like if we had a chance to observe it with a trillion frame-per-second video camera? "Imaging the Propagation of Light through Scenes...
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Imaging the Propagation of Light Through Scenes at Picosecond Resolution
We present a novel imaging technique, which we call femtophotography, to capture and visualize the propagation of light through table-top scenes with an effective...
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Technical Perspective: Combining Logic and Probability
In "Probabilistic Theorem Proving," Gogate and Domingos suggest how PTP could be turned in a fast approximate algorithm by sampling from the set of children of...
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Probabilistic Theorem Proving
Many representation schemes combining first-order logic and probability have been proposed in recent years. We propose the first method that has the full power...
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Technical Perspective: Mesa Takes Data Warehousing to New Heights
Producing reports at the scale of Google Ads, where billions of clicks happen per day, is the challenge addressed by the Mesa system described in "Mesa: A Geo-Replicated...
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Mesa: A Geo-Replicated Online Data Warehouse For Google's Advertising System
Mesa is a highly scalable analytic data warehousing system that stores critical measurement data related to Google's Internet advertising business. This paper presents...
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Technical Perspective: Computing with the Crowd
What kinds of problems can be solved with combined human and machine computation? "AutoMan: A Platform for Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation," by...
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Automan: A Platform For Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation
We introduce AutoMan, the first fully automatic crowdprogramming system.
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Technical Perspective: Software Is Natural
"On the Naturalness of Software" by Hindle et al. takes an entirely new approach to providing tools to help build software.
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