Sáez Pous, Xavier (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
During the last two decades, High-Performance Computing (HPC) has grown rapidly in performance by improving single-core processors at the cost of a similar growth in power consumption. The single-core ...
Almeida, Mario Manuel Sa Dias e Pinto de (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
Mobile devices have become ubiquitous and their ever evolving capabilities are bringing them closer to personal computers. Nonetheless, due to their mobility and small size factor constraints, they still ...
Rana, Manish (Date of defense: 2016-10-18)
This thesis presents novel methods based on a combination of well-known statistical techniques for faster estimation of memory yield and their application in the design of energy-efficient subthreshold ...
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 ...
Arcas Abella, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-04-15)
In the the last decades several performance walls were hit. The memory wall and the power wall are limiting the performance scaling of digital microprocessors. Homogeneous multicores rely on thread-level ...
Chasapis, Dimitrios (Date of defense: 2019-04-24)
Current large scale systems show increasing power demands, to the point that it has become a huge strain on facilities and budgets. The increasing restrictions in terms of power consumption of High ...
Tejedor Saavedra, Enric (Date of defense: 2013-07-15)
The last decade has witnessed unprecedented changes in parallel and distributed infrastructures. Due to the diminished gains in processor performance from increasing clock frequency, manufacturers have ...
Fas Millán, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
The gradual integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) in civil airspace, sharing airways with commercial flights, is expected to be completed once the legal issues and those regarding the ...
Vega D'Aurelio, Davide (Date of defense: 2015-12-21)
Contributory and volunteer computing ecosystems built around a community of participants need, like any other common-pool resources, an adaptive governance mechanism to guarantee the sustainability of ...
De Lucas, Enrique (Date of defense: 2018-04-20)
The goal of this thesis is to propose novel and effective techniques to eliminate redundant computations that waste energy and are performed in real-time computer graphics applications, with special ...
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