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Grass, Thomas (Date of defense: 2017-10-09)
Since the early 2000s, computer systems have seen a transition from single-core to multi-core systems. While single-core systems included only one processor core on a chip, current multi-core processors include up to tens ...
García Flores, Víctor (Date of defense: 2017-10-02)
Efficiently managing the memory subsystem of modern multi/manycore architectures is increasingly becoming a challenge as systems grow in complexity and heterogeneity. In the field of high performance computing (HPC) in ...
Castillo Reyes, Octavio (Date of defense: 2017-10-23)
Electromagnetic methods (EM) are an invaluable research tool in geophysics whose relevance has increased rapidly in recent years due to its wide industrial adoption. In particular, the forward modelling of three-dimensional ...
Rajović, Nikola (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)
In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in High-Performance Computing(HPC). This transformation has been so effective that the November 2016 TOP500 list is still ...
Kosmidis, Leonidas (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
Hardware and software complexity of future critical real-time systems challenges the scalability of traditional timing analysis methods. Measurement-Based Probabilistic Timing Analysis (MBPTA) has recently emerged as an ...
Guisado Gámez, Joan (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
Query expansion techniques aim at improving the results achieved by a user's query by means of introducing new expansion terms, called expansion features. Expansion features introduce new concepts that are semantically ...
Nishtala, Rajiv (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
In 2013, U.S. data centres accounted for 2.2% of the country's total electricity consumption, a figure that is projected to increase rapidly over the next decade. A significant proportion of power consumed within a data ...
López Berga, Ester (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
Wireless community networks (WCN) are specially vulnerable to routing forwarding failures because of their intrinsic characteristics: use of inexpensive hardware that can be easily accessed; managed in a decentralized way, ...
Ciesko, Jan (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
Wide adoption of parallel processing hardware in mainstream computing as well as the interest for efficient parallel programming in developer communities increase the demand for programming models that offer support for ...
Garcia Gasulla, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-04-18)
It is well known that load imbalance is a major source of efficiency loss in HPC (High Performance Computing) environments. The load imbalance problem has very different sources, from static ones related to the data ...
Martí Fraiz, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2017-03-31)
Existing solutions for data sharing are not fully compatible with multi-provider contexts. Traditionally, providers offer their datasets through hermetic Data Services with restricted APIs. Therefore, consumers are compelled ...
Tanasić, Ivan (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)
Programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have recently become the most pervasitheve massively parallel processors. They have come a long way, from fixed function ASICs designed to accelerate graphics tasks to a ...
Stanić, Milan (Date of defense: 2017-01-31)
In the last 15 years, power dissipation and energy consumption have become crucial design concerns for almost all computer systems. Technology feature size scaling leads to higher power density and therefore to complex and ...
Ratković, Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
Vector processors are a very promising solution for mobile devices and servers due to their inherently energy-efficient way of exploiting datalevel parallelism. While vector processors succeeded in the high performance ...
Torrents Lapuerta, Martí (Date of defense: 2016-11-28)
Recently, high performance processor designs have evolved toward Chip-Multiprocessor (CMP) architectures to deal with instruction level parallelism limitations and, more important, to manage the power consumption that is ...
Saravanan, Karthikeyan P. (Date of defense: 2016-11-02)
Energy efficiency is an important challenge in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). High energy requirements not only limit the potential to realize next-generation machines but are also an increasing part of the ...
Jiménez Pérez, Víctor Javier (Date of defense: 2016-10-20)
Increasing processors' clock frequency has traditionally been one of the largest drivers of performance improvements for computing systems. In the first half of the 2000s, however, it became clear that continuing to increase ...
Jha, Sudhanshu S. (Date of defense: 2016-10-05)
As the transistor budgets outpace the power envelope (the power-wall issue), new architectural and microarchitectural techniques are needed to improve, or at least maintain, the power efficiency of next-generation processors. ...
Sönmez, Nehir (Date of defense: 2012-09-19)
This thesis attempts to bring together two recent topics by presenting a flexible Transactional Memory environment on a multicore prototype that is realized on FPGA fabric. For this, we devise a MIPS-compatible shared-memory ...
Rodríguez Natal, Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) arose as a solution to address the limitations of traditional networking. In SDN networks, the control-plane is decoupled from the data-plane devices and logically centralized in a new ...