Probabilistic expectations and memory limitations are central factors governing the real-time comprehension of natural language, but how the two factors interact remains poorly understood. One respect in which the two factors have come into theoretical conflict is the documentation of both locality effects, in which more dependents preceding a governing verb increase processing difficulty at th...

The Internet of Things significantly increases the amount of data generated that strains the processing capability of current computing systems. Approximate computing can accelerate the computation and dramatically reduce the energy consumption with controllable accuracy loss. In this paper, we propose a Resistive Associative Unit, called RAU, which approximates computation alongside processing...

This paper describes an architecture and runtime system to implement distributed control and data processing applications in a thin-client manner, suitable for implementing a thin-client mobile robotics system. The system varies control fidelity and locality to adapt a control application to changes in Quality of Service availability and processing resources using a cost benefit model. An examp...

An increasing cache latency in next-generation processors incurs profound performance impacts in spite of advanced out-of-order execution techniques. One way to circumvent this cache latency problem is to predict load values at the onset of pipeline execution by exploiting either the load value locality or the address correlation of stores and loads. In this paper, we describe a new load value ...

A sort-last 3D parallel rendering machine distributes the triangles to draw to diierent processors. When building such a machine with each processor having a texture cache, the texture locality is worse and the performance is reduced. This article investigates two schemes to preserve this locality while keeping a good load balancing: triangle slicing and locality aware triangle distribution. Wi...

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a technology that creates three dimensional (3D) images of breast tissue. Tomosynthesis mammography detects lesions that are not detectable with other imaging systems. If image reconstruction time is in the order of seconds, we can use Tomosynthesis systems to perform Tomosynthesis-guided Interventional procedures. This research has been designed to study u...

This paper presents GPU-based solutions to the Poisson equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in two spatial dimensions. This problem has well-understood behavior, but similar computation to many more complex real-world problems. We analyze the GPU performance using three types of memory access in the CUDA memory model (direct access to global memory, texture access, and shared...