Castro, Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-10-10)
The ever increasing IP traffic volume has finally brought to light the high inefficiency of current wavelength-routed over rigid-grid optical networks in matching the client layer requirements. Such an ...
Slijepcevic, Mladen (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Industry developing Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES), such as Aerospace, Space, Automotive and Railways, faces relentless demands for increased guaranteed processor performance to support new ...
Hasanov Zyulkyarov, Ferard (Date of defense: 2011-07-19)
Transactional memory (TM) is a new optimistic synchronization technique which has the potential of making shared memory parallel programming easier compared to locks without giving up from the performance. ...
Armejach Sanosa, Adrià (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)
Transactional Memory (TM) aims to make shared memory parallel programming easier by abstracting away the complexity of managing shared data. The programmer defines sections of code, called transactions, ...
Casas Guix, Marc (Date of defense: 2010-03-09)
This work is motivated by the growing intricacy of high performance computing infrastructures. For example, supercomputer MareNostrum (installed in 2005 at BSC) has 10240 processors and currently there ...
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 ...
Costa Prats, Juan José (Date of defense: 2011-07-20)
Nowadays clusters are one of the most used platforms in High Performance Computing and most programmers use the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library to program their applications in these distributed ...
Reyes Ávila, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2012-11-23)
This work presents the development and experimental validation of a generic workflow model applicable to any parameter sweep problem: the Parameter Sweep Scientific Workflow (PSWF) model. As part of it, ...
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 ...