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High-Resolution Shape Completion Using Deep Neural Networks for Global Structure and Local Geometry Inference
We propose a data-driven method for recovering miss-ing parts of 3D shapes.
Our method is based on a new deep learning architecture consisting of two
sub-networks: a global structure inference network and a local geometry
refinement network. The global structure inference network incorporates a long
short-term memorized context fusion module (LSTM-CF) that infers the global
structure of the shape based on multi-view depth information provided as part
of the input. It also includes a 3D fully convolutional (3DFCN) module that
further enriches the global structure representation according to volumetric
information in the input. Under the guidance of the global structure network,
the local geometry refinement network takes as input lo-cal 3D patches around
missing regions, and progressively produces a high-resolution, complete surface
through a volumetric encoder-decoder architecture. Our method jointly trains
the global structure inference and local geometry refinement networks in an
end-to-end manner. We perform qualitative and quantitative evaluations on six
object categories, demonstrating that our method outperforms existing
state-of-the-art work on shape completion.Comment: 8 pages paper, 11 pages supplementary material, ICCV spotlight pape
EbbRT: a customizable operating system for cloud applications
Efficient use of hardware requires operating system components be customized to the application workload. Our general purpose operating systems are ill-suited for this task. We present Genesis, a new operating system that enables per-application customizations for cloud applications. Genesis achieves this through a novel heterogeneous distributed structure, a partitioned object model, and an event-driven execution environment. This paper describes the design and prototype implementation of Genesis, and evaluates its ability to improve the performance of common cloud applications. The evaluation of the Genesis prototype demonstrates memcached, run within a VM, can outperform memcached run on an unvirtualized Linux. The prototype evaluation also demonstrates an 14% performance improvement of a V8 JavaScript engine benchmark, and a node.js webserver that achieves a 50% reduction in 99th percentile latency compared to it run on Linux
DCCast: Efficient Point to Multipoint Transfers Across Datacenters
Using multiple datacenters allows for higher availability, load balancing and
reduced latency to customers of cloud services. To distribute multiple copies
of data, cloud providers depend on inter-datacenter WANs that ought to be used
efficiently considering their limited capacity and the ever-increasing data
demands. In this paper, we focus on applications that transfer objects from one
datacenter to several datacenters over dedicated inter-datacenter networks. We
present DCCast, a centralized Point to Multi-Point (P2MP) algorithm that uses
forwarding trees to efficiently deliver an object from a source datacenter to
required destination datacenters. With low computational overhead, DCCast
selects forwarding trees that minimize bandwidth usage and balance load across
all links. With simulation experiments on Google's GScale network, we show that
DCCast can reduce total bandwidth usage and tail Transfer Completion Times
(TCT) by up to compared to delivering the same objects via independent
point-to-point (P2P) transfers.Comment: 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing,
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud17/program/presentation/noormohammadpou
EbbRT: Elastic Building Block Runtime - case studies
We present a new systems runtime, EbbRT, for cloud hosted applications. EbbRT takes a different approach to the role operating systems play in cloud computing. It supports stitching application functionality across nodes running commodity OSs and nodes running specialized application specific software that only execute what is necessary to accelerate core functions of the application. In doing so, it allows tradeoffs between efficiency, developer productivity, and exploitation of elasticity and scale. EbbRT, as a software model, is a framework for constructing applications as collections of standard application software and Elastic Building Blocks (Ebbs). Elastic Building Blocks are components that encapsulate runtime software objects and are implemented to exploit the raw access, scale and elasticity of IaaS resources to accelerate critical application functionality. This paper presents the EbbRT architecture, our prototype and experimental evaluation of the prototype under three different application scenarios
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