A dependency-aware parallel programming model 

    Pérez Cáncer, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2015-02-11)

    Designing parallel codes is hard. One of the most important roadblocks to parallel programming is the presence of data dependencies. These restrict parallelism and, in general, to work them around requires complex analysis ...

    A Dynamic Validation Infrastructure for Interoperable Grid Services 

    Luna García, Jesús (Date of defense: 2008-05-05)

    Los encargados de recursos Grid pueden autorizar el acceso a sus elementos de cómputo por medio de procedimientos bien establecidos para los clientes, regularmente a través del uso de credenciales criptográficas que en su ...

    A framework for efficient execution of matrix computations 

    Herrero Zaragoza, Jose Ramón (Date of defense: 2006-07-07)

    Matrix computations lie at the heart of most scientific computational tasks. The solution of linear systems of equations is a very frequent operation in many fields in science, engineering, surveying, physics and ...

    A Middleware framework for self-adaptive large scale distributed services 

    Chacin Martínez, Pablo Jesus (Date of defense: 2011-07-21)

    Modern service-oriented applications demand the ability to adapt to changing conditions and unexpected situations while maintaining a required QoS. Existing self-adaptation approaches seem inadequate to address this challenge ...

    A trust-driven privacy architecture for vehicular ad-hoc networks 

    Serna-Olvera, Jetzabel Maritza (Date of defense: 2013-01-08)

    Vehicular Ad-Hoc NETworks (VANETs) are an emerging technology which aims to improve road safety by preventing and reducing traffic accidents. While VANETs offer a great variety of promising applications, such as, safety-related ...

    Adaptive execution environments for application servers 

    Carrera Pérez, David (Date of defense: 2008-07-08)

    El creixement experimentat tant per la web com per Internet en els últims anys ha potenciat l'introducció de servidors d'aplicacions dins de la majoria d'entorns d'execució distribuits. El servidors d'aplicacions web porten ...

    Affordable kilo-instruction processors 

    Pericàs Gleim, Miquel (Date of defense: 2008-12-09)

    Diversos motius expliquen l'estancament en el que es troba el desenvolupament del processador tradicional dissenyat per maximitzar el rendiment d'un únic fil d'execució. Per una banda, técniques agressives com la supersegmentacó ...

    Ahorro Energético en la Planificación de Sistemas en Tiempo Real 

    Moncusí Mercadé, Maria Angels (Date of defense: 2005-12-21)

    La evolución de los procesadores siempre ha consistido en ir aumentando el rendimiento de estos, fijando como medida de este aumento de rendimiento la velocidad de proceso en la ejecución de las distintas aplicaciones. Sin ...

    Analysis and architectural support for parallel stateful packet processing 

    Verdú Mulà, Javier (Date of defense: 2008-07-09)

    The evolution of network services is closely related to the network technology trend. Originally network nodes forwarded packets from a source to a destination in the network by executing lightweight packet processing, or ...

    Analysis and optimization of question answering systems 

    Domínguez Sal, David (Date of defense: 2010-04-23)

    Aplicación de la simulación en tiempo real para mejorar la calidad de servicio del middleware 

    Nou Castell, Ramón (Date of defense: 2008-10-31)

    La utilización de aplicaciones de diferente naturaleza dentro de un mismo entorno, entorno heterogéneo, se está extendiendo gracias a la incorporación de técnicas de virtualización a los servidores. Compartir un servidor ...

    Application of clustering analysis and sequence analysis on the performance analysis of parallel applications 

    González García, Juan (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)

    High Performance Computing and Supercomputing is the high end area of the computing science that studies and develops the most powerful computers available. Current supercomputers are extremely complex so are the applications ...

    AUGURES : profit-aware web infrastructure management 

    Poggi M., Nicolas (Date of defense: 2014-05-07)

    Over the last decade, advances in technology together with the increasing use of the Internet for everyday tasks, are causing profound changes in end-users, as well as in businesses and technology providers. The widespread ...

    Binary Redundancy Elimination 

    Fernández Gómez, Manuel (Date of defense: 2005-04-13)

    Dos de las limitaciones de rendimiento más importantes en los procesadores de hoy en día provienen de las operaciones de memoria y de las dependencias de control. Para resolver estos problemas, las memorias cache y los ...

    Bounded model checking for asynchronous concurrent systems 

    Rakotoarisoa, Manitra Johanesa (Date of defense: 2014-03-04)

    Complex hardware systems become more and more ubiquitous in mission critical applications such as military, satellite, and medical to name but a few. In such applications, reliability remains a primary concern because a ...

    Castell: a heterogeneous cmp architecture scalable to hundreds of processors 

    Cabarcas Jaramillo, Felipe (Date of defense: 2011-09-19)

    Technology improvements and power constrains have taken multicore architectures to dominate microprocessor designs over uniprocessors. At the same time, accelerator based architectures have shown that heterogeneous ...

    Code optimizations for narrow bitwidth architectures 

    Bhagat, Indu (Date of defense: 2012-02-23)

    This thesis takes a HW/SW collaborative approach to tackle the problem of computational inefficiency in a holistic manner. The hardware is redesigned by restraining the datapath to merely 16-bit datawidth (integer datapath ...

    Computación difusa 

    Álvarez Martínez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2007-05-16)

    Esta tesis se enmarca en el ámbito de las técnicas de mejora de la eficiencia de ejecución (disminución del consumo y aumento de la velocidad) en el diseño de procesadores orientados a la ejecución de aplicaciones multimedia. ...

    Design of a distributed memory unit for clustered microarchitectures 

    Bieschewski, Stefan (Date of defense: 2013-06-20)

    Power constraints led to the end of exponential growth in single–processor performance, which characterized the semiconductor industry for many years. Single–chip multiprocessors allowed the performance growth to continue ...