2010-11-16 Log

The proceeding of ISSOC 2010 was released. There are some interesting articles:

Some interesting papers in IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering Nov.-Dec. 2010:

Designing Chips without Guarantees, in IEEE Design and Test of Computers 2010. It is based on the panel discussion “Computing without Guarantees” in DAC 2010.

Moment-Based Approaches in Imaging, Part 1 Basic Features, Part 2 Invariance, and Part 3 Computational Considerations, published between 2007 and 2008.

A Unifying Approach to Moment-Based Shape Orientation and Symmetry Classification, in TIP 2009.

A unified methodology for the efficient computation of discrete orthogonal image moments, in Information Science 2009.

Fast Computation of Tchebichef Moments for Binary and Grayscale Images, in TIP 2010.

Fast and Memory Efficient 2-D Connected Components Using Linked Lists of Line Segments, in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2010. It will be the future classic.

Some slides on AMD’s “Ontario” fusion APU. It seems the “Ontario” APU has a traditional memory hierarchy and programming model for CPU/GPU fusion. It is reported that the CPU and GPU are sharing the off-chip DRAM instead of on-chip memory. That could be a drawback compared to the shared L3 approach in Sandy Bridge. There are some fancy slides from HotChip 2010 on the micro-architecture of Bobcat.

Graph500, a New Standard Proposed for Supercomputing, by Sandia National Laboratories.