Keller, Kai Rasmus (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
With the increasing power of supercomputers, ever more detailed models of physical systems can be simulated, and ever larger problem sizes can be considered for any kind of numerical system. During the ...
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 ...
Sembroiz Ausejo, David (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
During many years, people and governments have been warned about the increasing levels of pollution and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions that are endangering our lives on this planet. The Information ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dot Artigas, Gem (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
Dynamically typed languages are ubiquitous in today's applications. These languages ease the task of programmers but introduce significant runtime overheads since variables are neither declared nor ...
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 ...
Lensing, Paul Hermann (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
New challenges to file systems’ metadata performance are imposed by the continuously growing average number of files existing in file systems. The traditional component based lookup approach can become ...
Anglada Sánchez, Martí (Date of defense: 2020-06-09)
The computation capabilities of mobile GPUs have greatly evolved in the last generations, allowing real-time rendering of realistic scenes. However, the desire for processing complex environments clashes ...
Martí Fraiz, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2017-03-31)
Existing solutions for data sharing are not fully compatible with multi-provider contexts. Traditionally, providers offer their datasets through hermetic Data Services with restricted APIs. Therefore, ...