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Mendoça Pedroso, Pedro Miguel (Date of defense: 2011-12-16)
The popularization of Internet has turned the telecom world upside down over the last two decades. Network operators, vendors and service providers are being challenged to adapt themselves to Internet requirements in a way ...
Sirvent Pardell, Raül (Date of defense: 2009-02-03)
Durant els darrers anys el Grid ha sorgit com una nova plataforma per la computació distribuïda. La tecnologia Gris permet unir diferents recursos de diferents dominis administratius i formar un superordinador virtual amb ...
Yazdanpanah, Fahimeh (Date of defense: 2014-06-26)
Exploiting concurrency to achieve greater performance is a difficult and important challenge for current high performance systems. Although the theory is plain, the complexity of traditional parallel programming models in ...
Ortega Carrasco, Cristobal (Date of defense: 2022-11-28)
(English) Every new generation of high performance computing (HPC) processors brings higher complexity to boost performance: the increasing number of cores within the processor itself, cores with the ability to run multiple ...
Tan, Xubin (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
Task-based programming models allow programmers to express applications as a collection of tasks with dependences. They are simple to use and greatly improve programmability by using software runtimes to exploit task ...
Markovic, Nikola (Date of defense: 2015-12-22)
Through the past several decades, based on the Moore's law, the semiconductor industry was doubling the number of transistors on the single chip roughly every eighteen months. For a long time this continuous increase in ...
Cadenelli, Luca (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
Since the last decade, the main components of computer systems have been evolving, diversifying, to overcome their physical limits and to minimize their energy footprint. Hardware specialization and heterogeneity have ...
Alcaide Portet, Sergi (Date of defense: 2023-07-19)
(English) Future Safety-Critical Systems require a boost in guaranteed performance in order to satisfy the increasing performance demands of the state-of-the-art complex software features. Ar1 approach to achieve these ...
Eguzkitza Bazar, Ane Beatriz (Date of defense: 2014-06-17)
With this thesis we present the HERMESH method which has been classified by us as a a composition domain method. This term comes from the idea that HERMESH obtains a global solution of the problem from two independent ...
Acosta Ojeda, Carmelo Alexis (Date of defense: 2009-07-07)
During the last decades, Computer Architecture has experienced a great series of revolutionary changes. The increasing transistor count on a single chip has led to some of the main milestones in the field, from the release ...
Sinaeepourfard, Amir (Date of defense: 2017-11-18)
There is a vast amount of data being generated every day in the world with different formats, quality levels, etc. This new data, together with the archived historical data, constitute the seed for future knowledge discovery ...
Ramírez Bellido, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2002-07-12)
En los últimos años, el diseño de procesadores de altas prestaciones ha progresado a lo largo de dos corrientes de investigación: incrementar la profundidad del pipeline para permitir mayores frecuencias de reloj, y ensanchar ...
Royuela Alcázar, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-06-11)
Nowadays, applications from dissimilar domains, such as high-performance computing and high-integrity systems, require levels of performance that can only be achieved by means of sophisticated heterogeneous architectures. ...
Segura Salvador, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-02-18)
Graph processing is an established and prominent domain that is the foundation of new emerging applications in areas such as Data Analytics and Machine Learning, empowering applications such as road navigation, social ...
Sánchez Verdejo, Rommel (Date of defense: 2022-02-04)
The memory system is a significant contributor for most of the current challenges in computer architecture: application performance bottlenecks and operational costs in large data-centers as HPC supercomputers. With the ...
Deb, Abhishek (Date of defense: 2012-05-03)
In this thesis we have explored the co-designed paradigm to show alternative processor design points. Specifically, we have provided HW/SW mechanisms for instruction fusion, issue and commit for modern processors. We have ...
Aguilà Vilà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-02-18)
This thesis has been carried out in the industrial environment external to the University, as an industrial PhD. The results of this PhD have been tested, validated, and implemented in the production environment of Caixabank ...
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 streams, updated set of ...
Bellver Bueno, Míriam (Date of defense: 2021-03-26)
Computer vision plays a key role in Artificial Intelligence because of the rich semantic information contained in pixels and the ubiquity of cameras nowadays. Multimedia content is on a rise since social networks have such ...
Berral García, Josep Lluís (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
Autonomic Computing is a Computer Science and Technologies research area, originated during mid 2000's. It focuses on optimization and improvement of complex distributed computing systems through self-control and ...