One of the distinguishing features of impulse radio or ultra-wideband (UWB) systems is by their broad bandwidth. The resulting power spectral density of UWB systems can become very small due to the
One of the distinguishing features of impulse radio or ultra-wideband (UWB) systems is by their broad bandwidth. The resulting power spectral density of UWB systems can become very small due to the
We analyze several perfect-information combinatorial games played on planar triangulations. We introduce three broad categories of such games: constructing, transforming, and marking triangulations. In various situati...
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An experimental study of software image compositing that we have carried out on a 512-node PC cluster shows the necessity of hardware compositing support to make possible real-time volume visualization scalable with l...
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Hafnium oxide thin films deposited by MOCVD were annealed in nitrogen at various temperatures. The as‐deposited films and annealed films were characterized using Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), atomic force micros...
Hafnium oxide thin films deposited by MOCVD were annealed in nitrogen at various temperatures. The as‐deposited films and annealed films were characterized using Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), atomic force microscopy (AFM), X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The films were found to be slightly oxygen deficient. Angle‐resolved XPS revealed oxygen to be residing in two different chemical states, that of oxygen in hafnium oxide, and possibly, a hafnium silicate. Auger depth profiling revealed nitrogen enrichment in an interfacial layer at the film‐substrate interface, which could be the result of an ammonia pre‐treatment prior to deposition. The thickness of this interfacial layer was determined to be ∼ 15 A from TEM. Progressively larger grains were found from AFM measurements with increasing annealing temperature.
While commodity computing and graphics hardware has increased in capacity and dropped in cost, it is still quite difficult to make effective use of such systems for general-purpose parallel visualization and graphics....
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While commodity computing and graphics hardware has increased in capacity and dropped in cost, it is still quite difficult to make effective use of such systems for general-purpose parallel visualization and graphics. We describe the results of a recent project that provides a software infrastructure suitable for general-purpose use by parallel visualization and graphics applications. Our work combines and extends two technologies: chromium, a stream-oriented framework that implements the OpenGL programming interface; and OpenRM scene graph, a pipelined-parallel scene graph interface for graphics data management. Using this combination, we implement a sort-first, distributed memory, parallel volume rendering application. We describe the performance characteristics in terms of bandwidth requirements and highlight key algorithmic considerations needed to implement the sort-first system. We characterize system performance using a distributed memory parallel volume rendering application, and present performance gains realized by using scene specific knowledge to accelerate rendering by reducing network traffic. The contribution of this work is an exploration of general-purpose, sort-first architecture performance characteristics as applied to distributed memory, commodity hardware, along with a description of the algorithmic support needed to realize parallel, sort-first implementations.
In the last decades, diagnosing medical images has heavily relied on digital imaging. As a consequence, huge amounts of data produced by modern medical instruments need to be processed, organized, and visualized in a ...
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In the last decades, diagnosing medical images has heavily relied on digital imaging. As a consequence, huge amounts of data produced by modern medical instruments need to be processed, organized, and visualized in a suitable response time. Many efforts have been devoted to the development of digital Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) which archive and distribute image information across a hospital and provide Web access to avoid the expensive deployment of a large number of such systems. On the other hand, this approach does not solve problems related to the increasing demand of high performance computing and storage facilities, which cannot be placed within a hospital. In this work we describe MedIGrid, an application that enables nuclear doctors to transparently use high performance computers and storage systems for the PET/SPECT (Positron Emission Tomography/Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) image processing, management, visualization and analysis. MedIGrid is the result of the joint efforts of a group of researchers committed to the development of a distributed application to test and deploy new reconstruction methods in clinical environments. The outcomes of this work include a set of platform independent software tools to read medical images, control the execution of computing intensive tomographic algorithms, and explore the reconstructed tomographic volumes. In the paper we describe how the collaboration among different research groups has contributed to the integration of the application into a single framework. The results of our work are discussed.
In this paper we present first experiences concerning the integration of MPI-based numerical software into an advanced programming environment for building parallel and distributed high-performance applications, which...
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In this paper we present first experiences concerning the integration of MPI-based numerical software into an advanced programming environment for building parallel and distributed high-performance applications, which is under development in the context of Italian national research projects. Such a programming environment, named ASSIST, is based on a combination of the concepts of structured parallel programming and component-based programming. Some activities within the projects are devoted to the definition, implementation and testing of a methodology for the integration of a parallel numerical library into ASSIST. The goal is providing a set of efficient, accurate and reliable tools that can be easily used as building blocks for high-performance scientific applications. We focus on the integration of existing and widely used MPI-based numerical library modules. To this aim, we propose a general approach to embed MPI computations into the ASSIST basic programming unit. This approach has been tested using the MPICH implementation of MPI for networks of workstations. Some modifications have been applied to the MPICH process startup procedure, in order to make it compliant with the ASSIST environment. Results of experiments concerning the integration of routines from a well-known FFT package are discussed.
Most of the industrial parts are designed as trimmed NURBS. For their efficient rendering multiresolution models are needed. To create such models without artifacts at the trimming curves, one needs to sew parts toget...
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Most of the industrial parts are designed as trimmed NURBS. For their efficient rendering multiresolution models are needed. To create such models without artifacts at the trimming curves, one needs to sew parts together along the common boundaries. Due to the problem of determining the geometric places in 3D space along the trimming curves where sewing should be done, current approaches need to have a priori neighbourhood information of the patches and this way they do not provide an automatic solution to create large connected models just from a set of surfaces. In this paper we describe a method, which automatically determines common boundaries of trimmed NURBS surfaces and sews along them. Such a method provides us a non-manifold or manifold structures which can be handled using standard multi-resolution techniques. Several examples of industrial data demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of our new method. The introduced techniques will also be included into the OpenSG scenegraph API [8] as the basic tool for NURBS rendering.
The objective of this paper is to explain the machinery of the Chaos Game used in the context of various types of iterated function system specifications. Although the discussion is kept in the framework of a mathemat...
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This work considers the problem of metamorphosis interpolation between two freeform planar curves. Given two planar parametric curves, the curvature signature of the two curves is linearly blended, yielding a gradual ...
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This work considers the problem of metamorphosis interpolation between two freeform planar curves. Given two planar parametric curves, the curvature signature of the two curves is linearly blended, yielding a gradual change that is not only smooth but also employs intrinsic curvature shape properties, and hence is highly appealing. In order to be able to employ this curvature blending, we present a constructive scheme to derive curvature signatures of parameter curves. Additionally, we propose a scheme to reconstruct a curve from its curvature signature.
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