Cabarcas Jaramillo, Felipe (Date of defense: 2011-09-19)
Technology improvements and power constrains have taken multicore architectures to dominate microprocessor designs over uniprocessors. At the same time, accelerator based architectures have shown that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vega, Augusto J. (Date of defense: 2013-07-30)
The so-called "power (or power density) wall" has caused core frequency (and single-thread performance) to slow down, giving rise to the era of multi-core/multi-thread processors. For example, the IBM ...
Milić, Uglješa (Date of defense: 2017-11-22)
From single-core CPUs to detachable compute accelerators, supercomputers made a tremendous progress by using available transistors on chip and specializing hardware for a given type of computation. ...
Álvarez Mesa, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2011-09-08)
Digital video is a popular technology used in many different applications. The quality of video, expressed in the spatial and temporal resolution, has been increasing continuously in the last years. In ...
Rico Carro, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2013-10-29)
The number of transistors on an integrated circuit keeps doubling every two years. This increasing number of transistors is used to integrate more processing cores on the same chip. However, due to power ...
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 ...