Seyedi, Azamolsadat (Date of defense: 2016-02-02)
Computing technology has witnessed an inimitable progress in the last decades which is the result of CMOS technology scaling commensurate with Moore's law. Transistor feature sizes have shrunk to half ...
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 ...
Marjanović, Vladimir (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
Even today supercomputing systems have already reached millions of cores for a single machine, which are connected by using a complex network interconnection. Reducing communication time across processes ...
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 ...
García Rudolph, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. It is the most common cause of death and disability during the first three decades of life and accounts for more productive years ...
Pavlović, Milan (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Most computing systems are heavily dependent on their main memories, as their primary storage, or as an intermediate cache for slower storage systems (HDDs). The capacity of memory systems, as well as ...
Gifre Renom, Lluís (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
New generation applications, such as cloud computing or video distribution, can run in a telecom cloud infrastructure where the datacenters (DCs) of telecom operators are integrated in their networks ...
AlSkaif, Tarek (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
The need for energy conservation, grid reliability, and improved operational efficiencies have led to the changes from conventional electricity grids which have “blind” and manual operations, along with ...
Abadal Cavallé, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Recent years have seen the emergence and ubiquitous adoption of Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs), which rely on the coordinated operation of multiple execution units or cores. Successive CMP generations ...
Mikians, Jakub (Date of defense: 2016-01-20)
The growth of the Internet impacts multiple areas of the world economy, and it has become a permanent part of the economic landscape both at the macro- and at microeconomic level. On-line traffic and ...