RDataFrame enhancements for HEP analyses

Naming Enhancements for the Internet

The Internet has a number of different namespaces used by its myriad protocols and applications. Unfortunately overloaded naming semantics are creating widespread issues. This position paper reviews the existing namespaces, current naming issues, and then proposes a strawman approach to resolving the current naming issues. 1 Existing Namespaces In the original ARPAnet, the first namespace was t...

TCP Enhancements for Heterogeneous Networks

Hardware Enhancements for Raster Graphics

Great strides have been made in the field of fast, realistic image generation in the last 20 years. A generally acknowledged goal of the field called the Ultimate Display has been guiding the field all that time, and may very well be guiding us for the next 20 years. But with the recent advent ofVLSI technology the Ultimate Display may finally be less of a dream and more of an achievable goal. ...

HPA* Enhancements

In video games, pathfinding must be done quickly and accurately. Not much computational time is allowed for pathfinding, but realistic looking paths are required. One approach to pathfinding which attempts to satisfy both of these constraints is to perform pathfinding on abstractions of the map. Botea et al.’s Hierarchical Pathfinding A* (HPA*) does this by dividing the map into square sectors ...

TCP enhancements

In this writeup, we summarize the extensions made to TCP (relative to what I teach in the Internet architecture/protocols course). The list includes: 1. Larger window sizes accommodated through a window scale option is proposed for LFNs (Networks with Long Fat Pipes) [1], which are networks that have large values of the delay bandwidth product (DBP). TCP performance depends upon this product. T...