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 ...
Sequeira, Diogo Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2022-10-31)
(English) Optical communications have been extensively investigated and enhanced in the last decades. Nowadays, they are responsible to transport all the data traffic generated around the world, from ...
Barceló Garcia, Miquel (Date of defense: 1990-09-01)
(Cat) Aquesta memòria descriu com la literatura de ciència ficció reflecteix en les seves narracions els conceptes i resultats propis de la ciència i la tecnologia informàtica. Aquesta visió cal entendre-la ...
Batbayar, Khulan (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
Internet access is still unavailable to one-third of the world population due to the lack of infrastructure, high cost, and the digital divide. Many access-limited communities opt for shared Internet ...
Ríos Jerez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)
In this thesis, we present a set of studies whose results have allowed us to analyze how to improve the realism, navigation, and behaviour of the avatars in an immersive virtual reality environment. In ...
Orduña, Fernando (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
An optimal performance of a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system means, the CBR system must be efficient both in time and in size, and must be optimally competent. The efficiency in time is closely related ...
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 ...
Castillo Villar, Emilio (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
The increasing parallelism levels in modern computing systems has extolled the need for a holistic vision when designing multiprocessor architectures taking in account the needs of the programming models ...
Dimopoulos, Georgios (Date of defense: 2018-11-27)
On-line video streaming is an ever evolving ecosystem of services and technologies, where content providers are on a constant race to satisfy the users' demand for richer content and higher bitrate ...
Radulović, Milan (Date of defense: 2019-05-07)
A major contributor to the deployment and operational costs of a large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) clusters is the memory system. In terms of system performance it is one of the most critical ...