Tabani, Hamid (Date of defense: 2018-02-21)
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is one of the most important applications in the area of cognitive computing. Fast and accurate ASR is emerging as a key application for mobile and wearable devices. ...
Awan, Ahsan Javed (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
The sheer increase in volume of data over the last decade has triggered research in cluster computing frameworks that enable web enterprises to extract big insights from big data. While Apache Spark ...
Shariati, Mohammad Behnam (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)
Internet traffic is expected to keep increasing exponentially due to the emergence of a vast number of innovative online services and applications. Optical networks, which are the cornerstone of the ...
Moretó Planas, Miquel (Date of defense: 2010-03-19)
The evolution of microprocessor design in the last few decades has changed significantly, moving from simple inorder single core architectures to superscalar and vector architectures in order to extract ...
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 ...
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 ...
Domínguez Sal, David (Date of defense: 2010-04-23)
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 ...
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 ...
Herrero Abellanas, Enric (Date of defense: 2011-07-05)
Les últimes dècades el rendiment dels processadors i de les memòries ha millorat a diferent ritme, limitant el rendiment dels processadors i creant el conegut memory gap. Sol·lucionar aquesta diferència ...