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Baig Viñas, Roger (Date of defense: 2019-11-18)
In the search and development of more participatory models for infrastructure development and management, in this dissertation, we investigate models for the financing, deployment, and operation of network and cloud computing ...
Pérez, Hugo (Date of defense: 2019-05-09)
Large-scale simulation and visualization are essential topics in areas as different as sociology, physics, urbanism, training, entertainment among others. This kind of systems requires a vast computational power and memory ...
Manzoor, Jawad (Date of defense: 2019-06-13)
The Internet is evolving from the perspective of both usage and connectivity. The meteoric rise of smartphones has not only facilitated connectivity for the masses, it has also increased their appetite for more responsive ...
Villalba Navarro, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2019-09-05)
The fast evolution of data analytics platforms has resulted in an increasing demand for real-time data stream processing. From Internet of Things applications to the monitoring of telemetry generated in large datacenters, ...
Yazdani Aminabadi, Reza (Date of defense: 2019-07-25)
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is undoubtedly one of the most important and interesting applications in the cutting-edge era of Deep-learning deployment, especially in the mobile segment. Fast and accurate ASR comes ...
Asifuzzaman, Kazi (Date of defense: 2019-07-29)
It is questionable whether DRAM will continue to scale and will meet the needs of next-generation systems. Therefore, significant effort is invested in research and development of novel memory technologies. One of the ...
Jaulmes, Luc (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)
Hardware errors become more common as silicon technologies shrink and become more vulnerable, especially in memory cells, which are the most exposed to errors. Permanent and intermittent faults are caused by manufacturing ...
Assaf, Simon Sassine (Date of defense: 2019-06-18)
Nanotechnology is widely seen as having huge potential to bring benefits to many areas of research and application. Nowadays, research studies are focusing on realizing nano-machines on the order of nanometers in size. A ...
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 Performance Computing ...
Radulović, Milan (Date of defense: 2019-05-07)
A major contributor to the deployment and operational costs of a large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) clusters is the memory system. In terms of system performance it is one of the most critical aspects of the ...
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 a performance ...
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 and applications. ...
Amaral, Marcelo (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
In recent years there has been an extraordinary growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its protocols. The increasing diffusion of electronic devices with identification, computing and communication capabilities is ...
Cugnasco, Cesare (Date of defense: 2019-03-22)
Spatial Big Data is considered an essential trend in future scientific and business applications. Indeed, research instruments, medical devices, and social networks generate hundreds of peta bytes of spatial data per year. ...
Serrano, Maria A. (Date of defense: 2019-03-13)
The recent technological advancements and market trends are causing an interesting phenomenon towards the convergence of the high-performance and the embedded computing domains. Critical real-time embedded systems are ...
Rumipamba Zambrano, Rubén Darío (Date of defense: 2019-03-14)
The ever demanding bandwidth requirements for supporting emerging telecom services such as ultra-high-definition video streaming, cloud computing, connected car, virtual/augmented reality, etc., bring to the fore the ...
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 underlying Internet ...
Malazgirt, Gorker Alp (Date of defense: 2019-02-12)
Today, vast streams of structured and unstructured data have been incorporated in databases, and analytical processes are applied to discover patterns, correlations, trends and other useful relationships that help to take ...
Touma, Rizkallah (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
Data prefetching has long been used as a technique to improve access times to persistent data. It is based on retrieving data records from persistent storage to main memory before the records are needed. Data prefetching ...
Ozen, Guray (Date of defense: 2018-12-13)
Graphics Processing Units (GPU) have been widely adopted to accelerate the execution of HPC workloads due to their vast computational throughput, ability to execute a large number of threads inside SIMD groups in parallel ...