Publications on Parallel Processing

2012

Darren Chitty, Fast Parallel Genetic Programming: Multi-core CPU Versus Many-core GPU. Soft Computing, 16(10). ISSN 1432-7643, pp. 1795–1814. October 2012. PDF, 928 Kbytes.

2007

Andrew Moss, Dan Page, Nigel Smart, Toward Acceleration of RSA Using 3D Graphics Hardware. Cryptography and Coding, pp. 369–388. December 2007. PDF, 257 Kbytes.

2006

Alan Chalmers, Kurt Debattista, Veronica Sundstedt, Peter Longhurst, Richard Gillibrand, Rendering on Demand. Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization. May 2006. PDF, 1696 Kbytes.
Douglas Watt, David May, A Language and Processor for Unifying System-on-Chip Design. CSTR-06-010, University of Bristol, UK. April 2006. No electronic version available.

2005

Richard Gillibrand, Kurt Debattista, Alan Chalmers, Cost Prediction Maps for Global Illumination. Proceedings of Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2005. ISBN 3-905673-56-8, pp. 97–104. June 2005. PDF, 8449 Kbytes.
Kurt Debattista, Veronica Sundstedt, Francisco Pereira, Alan Chalmers, Selective Parallel Rendering for High-Fidelity Graphics. Proceedings of Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2005. ISBN 3-905673-56-8, pp. 59–66. June 2005. PDF, 9668 Kbytes.

2004

Dan Page, Parallel Solution of Sparse Linear Systems Defined Over GF(p). CSTR-05-003, University of Bristol. November 2004. PDF, 257 Kbytes.
G.C. Wells, Alan Chalmers, P.G. Clayton, Linda implementations in Java for concurrent systems. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 16(10), pp. 1005–1022. August 2004. PDF, 444 Kbytes.
Tomas Plachetka, Tuning of Algorithms for Independent Task Placement in the Context of Demand-Driven Parallel Ray Tracing. Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV04). ISBN 3-905673-11-8, pp. 101–109. June 2004. PDF, 436 Kbytes. External information

2003

Jorge Buenabad-Chavez, Henk L Muller, Paul W A Stallard, David H D Warren, Virtual Memory on Data Diffusion Architectures. Parallel Computing, 29(8). ISSN 0167-8191, pp. 1021–1052. August 2003. PDF, 312 Kbytes.

2002

Alan Chalmers, Kirsten Cater, Realistic Rendering in Real-Time. Euro-Par 2002 Parallel Processing. Burkhard Monien, Rainer Feldmann, (eds.). ISBN 3-540-44049-6, pp. 21–28. August 2002. PDF, 243 Kbytes.
Alan Chalmers, Timothy Davis, Erik Reinhard, Practical Parallel Rendering . AK Peters Ltd. ISBN 156881-179-9. July 2002. No electronic version available. External information
Daniel William Towner, The Uniform Heterogeneous Multi-threaded Processor Architecture. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. April 2002. PDF, 1259 Kbytes.

2001

Communicating Process Architectures -- 2001. Alan Chalmers, Majid Mirmehdi, Henk Muller, (eds.). IOS Press. September 2001. No electronic version available.
Daniel Towner, David May, The `Uniform Heterogeneous Multi-threaded' Processor Architecture. Communicating Process Architectures -- 2001. Alan Chalmers, Majid Mirmehdi, Henk Muller, (eds.). ISBN 1 58603 202, pp. 103–116. September 2001. PDF, 106 Kbytes.

2000

David May, James Irwin, Henk L Muller, Dan Page, Effective Caching for Multithreaded Processors. Communicating Process Architectures 2000. P. H. Welch, A. W. P. Bakkers, (eds.), pp. 145–154. September 2000. PDF, 75 Kbytes.
Tim Davis, Alan Chalmers, Henrik Wann Jensen, Practical parallel processing for realistic rendering. ACM SIGGRAPH. July 2000. No electronic version available.

1999

J Bradley, Towards Reliable Modelling with Stochastic Process Algebras. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. October 1999. PDF, 1919 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, Scheduling and Data Management for Parallel Ray Tracing. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. October 1999. PDF, 5214 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, Alan Chalmers, Frederik W Jansen, Hybrid Scheduling for Parallel Rendering using Coherent Ray Tasks. 1999 IEEE Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium. ISBN 1-58113-237-9, pp. 21–28. October 1999. PDF, 488 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, Alan Chalmers, Frederik W. Jansen, Hybrid Scheduling for Realistic Image Synthesis. Chapter in Parallel Computing, Fundamentals and Applications (Proceedings of the International Conference ParCo99. E. H. D'Hollander, G. R. Joubert, F. J. Peters, H. J. Sips, (eds.). ISBN 1-86094-235-0, pp. 217–224. August 1999. PDF, 730 Kbytes.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop. J Bradley, N Davies, (eds.). Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. ISSN 0952402785. July 1999. No electronic version available. External information
J Bradley, N Davies, An Aggregation Technique for Analysing Some Generally Distributed Stochastic Processes. CSTR-99-003, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. March 1999. PDF, 705 Kbytes.
J Bradley, N Davies, Reliable Performance Modelling with Approximate Synchronisations. CSTR-99-002, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. February 1999. PDF, 438 Kbytes.

1998

J Bradley, N Davies, Performance Modelling and Synchronisation. CSTR-98-009, Superseded by CSTR-99-002, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. December 1998. PDF, 433 Kbytes.
Kadi Bouabouch, Alan Chalmers, Thierry Priol, Proceedings of the Second Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics & Visualisation. IRISA. September 1998. No electronic version available.
Erik Reinhard, Arjan J. F. Kok, Alan Chalmers, Cost Distribution Prediction for Parallel Ray Tracing. Second Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualisation, pp. 77–90. September 1998. PDF, 688 Kbytes.
Frederik W. Jansen, Erik Reinhard, Data Locality in Parallel Rendering. Second Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualisation, pp. 1–15. September 1998. PDF, 566 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, Alan Chalmers, Frederik W. Jansen, Overview of Parallel Photo-realistic Graphics. Eurographics '98 State of the Art Reports. ISSN 1017-4656, pp. 1–25. August 1998. PDF, 405 Kbytes.
Jorge Buenabad-Chavez, Virtual Memory on Data Diffusion Architectures. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. July 1998. PDF, 904 Kbytes.
Alan Chalmers, Erik Reinhard, Parallel and Distributed Photo-Realistic Rendering (course notes). ACM SIGGRAPH. July 1998. PDF, 5822 Kbytes.
Henk L. Muller, David May, A Simple Protocol to Communicate Channels over Channels. CSTR-98-001, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. January 1998. PDF, 168 Kbytes.

1997

Erik Reinhard, Alan Chalmers, Message Handling in Parallel Radiance. Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. ISBN 3-540-63697-8, pp. 486–493. November 1997. PDF, 148 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, Frederik W. Jansen, Rendering Large Scenes Using Parallel Ray Tracing. Parallel Computing, 23 (7). ISSN 0167-8191, pp. 873–885. July 1997. No electronic version available.
A. G. Chalmers, F. W. Jansen, Parallel Graphics and Visualisation. Parallel Computing, 23 (7). ISSN 0167-8191, pp. 817–818. July 1997. No electronic version available.
C. Kose, A. G. Chalmers, Profiling for efficient parallel volume visualisation. Parallel Computing, 23 (7). ISSN 0167-8191, pp. 943–952. July 1997. No electronic version available.
J. Tidmus, R. Miles, A. G. Chalmers, Prefetch data maangement for parallel particle tracing. Chapter in Parallel Programming and Java. A. Bakkers, (eds.). ISBN 90 51993366, pp. 130–137. April 1997. No electronic version available.

1996

Erik Reinhard, Frederik W. Jansen, Rendering Large Scenes Using Parallel Ray Tracing. First Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualisation. ISBN 1-897851-09, pp. 67–80. September 1996. PDF, 70 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, A Parallelisation of Ray Tracing with Diffuse Interreflection. Proceedings ASCI'96. ISBN 90-803086-1-7, pp. 367–372. June 1996. PDF, 35 Kbytes.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, Implementing the Data Diffusion Machine using Crossbar Routers. Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium. ISBN 0-8186-7255-2, pp. 152–158. April 1996. PDF, 93 Kbytes.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, Multitasking and Multithreading on a Multiprocessor with Virtual Shared Memory. Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture. ISBN 0-8186-7237-4, pp. 212–221. February 1996. PDF, 79 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, Hybrid Scheduling for Parallel Ray Tracing. , Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Informatics, Delft University of Technology. January 1996. PDF, 487 Kbytes.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, The Role of Associative Memory in VSM Architectures: A Price-Performance Comparison. Proceedings of 4th EUROMICRO Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing. ISBN 0-8186-7376-1, pp. 41–49. January 1996. No electronic version available.

1995

Pieter H. Hartel, Rutger F. H. Hofman, Koen G. Langendoen, Henk L. Muller, Willem G. Vree, L. O. Hertzberger, A toolkit for parallel functional programming. Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 7 (8). ISSN 1040-3108, pp. 765–793. December 1995. No electronic version available.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, Hiding Miss Latencies with Multithreading on the Data Diffusion Machine. Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP'95, Volume I. ISBN 0-8493-2615-X, pp. 178–185. August 1995. PDF, 82 Kbytes.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, The Application of Skewed-Associative Memories to Cache Only Memory Architectures. Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP'95, Volume I . ISBN 0-8493-2615-X, pp. 150–154. August 1995. PDF, 53 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, Frederik W. Jansen, Hybrid Scheduling for Efficient Ray Tracing of Complex Images. High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation. ISBN 3-540-76016-4, pp. 78–87. July 1995. PDF, 42 Kbytes.
David Stuttard, Adam Worrall, Derek Paddon, Claire Willis, A Radiosity System for Real Time Photo-Realism. Computer Graphics: Developments in Virtual Environments. ISBN 0-12-227741-4, pp. 71–81. June 1995. PDF, 47 Kbytes.
Erik Reinhard, Frederik W Jansen, Scheduling Issues in Parallel Rendering. Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging. ISBN 90-9008344-8, pp. 268–277. May 1995. PDF, 47 Kbytes.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, The Role of Associative Memory in VSM Architectures: A Price-Performance Comparison. CSTR-95-009, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. May 1995. PDF, 100 Kbytes.
David Stuttard, Adam Worrall, Derek Paddon, Claire Willis, A Parallel Radiosity System for Large Data Sets. Proceedings of the Winter School of Computer Graphics and CAD Systems '95. ISBN 80 7087-187-6, pp. 421–430. February 1995. PDF, 30 Kbytes.
Ines de Castro Dutra, Distributing And- and Or-work in the Andorra-I Parallel Logic Programming System. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. February 1995. PDF, 966 Kbytes.

1994

Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, E. Gomez-Ramirez, 2D sparse distributed memory optical neural network for pattern recognition. IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'94). ISBN 0-7803-1901-x, pp. 2112–2116. June 1994. No electronic version available.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, An Evaluation Study of a Link-Based Data Diffusion Machine. Proceedings of theInternational Workshop on Support for Large Scale Shared Memory Architectures, pp. 115–128. April 1994. PDF, 133 Kbytes.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, Sanjay Raina, Parallel Evaluation of a Parallel Architecture by means of Calibrated Emulation. Proceedings of the 8th International Parallel Processing Symposium. ISBN 0-8186-5602-6, pp. 260–267. April 1994. PDF, 80 Kbytes.

1993

M. Mirmehdi, The Roles and Purposes of Multi-Processor Operating Systems. Journal of the Informatic Society of Iran, 118, pp. 22–25. November 1993. No electronic version available.
Paul W. A. Stallard, Henk L. Muller, David H. D. Warren, Performance Evaluation of Parallel Programs on the Data Diffusion Machine. Performance Evaluation of Parallel Systems, PEPS '93, pp. 94–101. November 1993. PDF, 75 Kbytes.
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. Warren, The Data Diffusion Machine with a Scalable Point-to-Point Network. CSTR-93-17, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. October 1993. PDF, 131 Kbytes.
Sanjay Raina, Emulation of a Virtual Shared Memory Architecture. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. September 1993. PDF, 1057 Kbytes.
Vitor Santos Costa, Compile-Time Analysis for the Parallel Execution of Logic Programs in Andorra-I. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. August 1993. No electronic version available. External information

1992

Sanjay Raina, Virtual Shared Memory: A Survey of Techniques and Systems. CSTR-92-36, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. December 1992. PDF, 251 Kbytes.

1991

M. Mirmehdi, Product Label Inspection Using Transputers. Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 3 (4). ISSN 1040-3108, pp. 265–273. August 1991. No electronic version available.
M. Mirmehdi, G.A.W. West, G.R. Dowling, Label Inspection using the Hough Transform on Transputer Networks. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 15 (3). ISSN 0141-9331, pp. 167–173. April 1991. PDF, 304 Kbytes.

1990

M. Mirmehdi, Product Label Inspection Using Transputers. Proceedings of Transputer Applications: TA90. ISSN 0925-4986, pp. 408–416. July 1990. No electronic version available.