Abstract: Polygon overlay is one of the complex operations in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In GIS, a typical polygon tends to be large in size often consisting of thousands of vertices.

Tom Jenkins and Alan McRae in David Kohner Zuckerman’s Parallel Process. Photo by Lua Rasga. For those who appreciate dramas that deal with the mental aftermath of Vietnam, Parallel Process, a ...

A novel parallel computing framework for chemical process simulation has been proposed by researchers from the East China University of Science and Technology and the University of Sheffield. This ...

Have you ever noticed how Chrome can sometimes feel a bit sluggish when you open multiple tabs or windows? Google is working on adding a new feature designed to make Chrome’s startup and overall ...

ABSTRACT: The development of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning, has made it possible to accelerate and improve the processing of data collected in different fields (commerce, ...

Flow Computing is a pioneer in licensing on-die ultra-high-performance parallel computing solutions to CPU vendors of all architectures. And today the company is emerging from stealth with a funding ...

Joint Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (JointNMF) is a hybrid method for mining information from datasets that contain both feature and connection information. We propose distributed-memory ...

Have you ever studied hard for a test the night before, only to fail miserably the next day? Alternatively, you may have felt ill-prepared after studying the night before when, to your astonishment, ...

Our brains handle vast amounts of complicated information. So, how exactly does the mind make sense of all the many things it has to deal with? While there are a few different ideas, information ...

Fully distributed, integrated surface–subsurface hydrological models (ISSHMs) have seen renewed interest due to availability of better software, high performance computing facilities, and ...