California Engineer
Spring 2008 Issue
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Featured Article
Multi-Core Realtime Raytracing Acceleration
Apollo Ellis
Due to today's multi-core architecutres and the parallel chips of the future, the power and simplicity of ray tracing is coming into the grasp of the real-time graphics application writer. This paper serves as a literature review of acceleration techniques aimed at allowing for real-time ray tracing.
Articles
Self-timed FPU vs. Synchronus FPU
Shah Bawany, Tim Edgar, Sameer Iyengar, and Aaron Staley
Asynchronus logic offers significant performance advantages over conventional logic. Fewer timing assumptions and higher robustness are demonstrated in a FPU design. However, the lack of CAD tools and standard techniques make production costs too high.
Mapping Kinase Active Sites by Clique Detection
Cynthia Hsu
While all kinases utilize ATP as a substrate, their diversity of active sites make selective drug therapy difficult. By using a clique detection algorithm to identify similar atoms across multiple kinases, similar active sites can be mapped into clusters in order to assist in the qualitative evaluation of chemical properties.
Editorials
Editor's Corner
Calvin Ardi
What's the deal with multi-core, distributed, and cloud computing? Is single CPU computing dead?
How Do We Know?
Pavan Yedavalli
An engineer's perspective and thoughts on epistemology.