Central processing unit

Known as: Personal computer Central Processing Unit, PCM (disambiguation), Processors 
A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing… (More)
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq
MOTIVATION A new protocol for sequencing the messenger RNA in a cell, known as RNA-Seq, generates millions of short sequence… (More)
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
BLAST+: architecture and applications
Sequence similarity searching is a very important bioinformatics task. While Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. NAMD scales to… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
RPU: a programmable ray processing unit for realtime ray tracing
Recursive ray tracing is a simple yet powerful and general approach for accurately computing global light transport and rendering… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Route Packets, Not Wires: On-Chip Interconnection Networks
Using on-chip interconnection networks in place of ad-hoc glo-bal wiring structures the top level wires on a chip and facilitates… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Wattch: a framework for architectural-level power analysis and optimizations
Power dissipation and thermal issues are increasingly significant in modern processors. As a result, it is crucial that power… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Multimodality image registration by maximization of mutual information
A new approach to the problem of multimodality medical image registration is proposed, using a basic concept from information… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
The SPLASH-2 Programs: Characterization and Methodological Considerations
The SPLASH-2 suite of parallel applications has recently been released to facilitate the study of centralized and distributed… (More)
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1993
Highly Cited
1993
Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short – Range Molecular Dynamics
Three parallel algorithms for classical molecular dynamics are presented. The first assigns each processor a fixed subset of… (More)
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1976
1976
Adaptive Allocation of Central Processing Unit Quanta
A method is presented for numerically inverting a Laplace transform that requires, in addition to the transform function itself… (More)
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