Optimization techniques for fine-grained communication in PGAS environments 

    Alvanos, Michail (Fecha de defensa: 2013-12-10)

    Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages promise to deliver improved programmer productivity and good performance in large-scale parallel machines. However, adequate performance for applications that rely on ...

    Optimizing programming models for massively parallel computers 

    Farreras Esclusa, Montse (Fecha de defensa: 2008-12-12)

    Since the invention of the transistor, clock frequency increase was the primary method of improving computing performance. As the reach of Moore's law came to an end, however, technology driven performance gains became ...

    Optimizing serverless architectures for data-intensive analytics workloads 

    Nestorov, Anna Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2024-05-03)

    (English) Recently, serverless computing has garnered attention from academia and industry due to its on-demand resource provisioning, allowing users to focus solely on their core business logic by breaking down tasks into ...

    Optimizing SIMD execution in HW/SW co-designed processors 

    Kumar, Rakesh (Fecha de defensa: 2014-07-24)

    SIMD accelerators are ubiquitous in microprocessors from different computing domains. Their high compute power and hardware simplicity improve overall performance in an energy efficient manner. Moreover, their replicated ...

    Optimizing VLIW architectures for multimedia applications 

    Salamí San Juan, Esther (Fecha de defensa: 2007-06-01)

    The growing interest that multimedia processing has experimented during the last decade is motivating processor designers to reconsider which execution paradigms are the most appropriate for general-purpose processors. On ...

    Orchestrating datacenters and networks to facilitate the telecom cloud 

    Asensio Garcia, Adrian (Fecha de defensa: 2016-06-10)

    In the Internet of services, information technology (IT) infrastructure providers play a critical role in making the services accessible to end-users. IT infrastructure providers host platforms and services in their ...

    Orchestration of distributed ingestion and processing of IoT data for fog platforms 

    Pérez Rico, Juan Luis (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-26)

    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 ...

    Paralelización automática de recurrencias en programas secuenciales numéricos 

    Ayguadé i Parra, Eduard (Fecha de defensa: 1989-10-21)

    La programació d'aplicacions en màquines paral·leles és un tema d'interès quant a que cada vegada són més les màquines d'aquest tipus disponibles comercialment.<br><br/>Per a això l'usuari disposa de dues opcions: (a) ...

    Parallel algorithms for fluid and rigid body interaction 

    Samaniego Alvarado, Cristóbal (Fecha de defensa: 2015-12-14)

    This thesis is based on the implementation of a computational system to numerically simulate the interaction between a fluid and an arbitrary number of rigid bodies. This implementation was performed in a distributed ...

    Parallel architectures and runtime systems co-design for task-based programming models 

    Castillo Villar, Emilio (Fecha de defensa: 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. ...

    Parallel video decoding 

    Álvarez Mesa, Mauricio (Fecha de defensa: 2011-09-08)

    Digital video is a popular technology used in many different applications. The quality of video, expressed in the spatial and temporal resolution, has been increasing continuously in the last years. In order to reduce the ...

    Particle-in-cell algorithms for plasma simulations on heterogeneous architectures 

    Sáez Pous, Xavier (Fecha de defensa: 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 processor improvement ...

    Per-task energy metering and accounting in the multicore era 

    Liu, Qixiao (Fecha de defensa: 2016-05-26)

    Chip multi-core processors (CMPs) are the preferred processing platform across different domains such as data centers, real-time systems and mobile devices. In all those domains, energy is arguably the most expensive ...

    Performance and power optimizations in chip multiprocessors for throughput-aware computation 

    Vega, Augusto J. (Fecha de defensa: 2013-07-30)

    The so-called "power (or power density) wall" has caused core frequency (and single-thread performance) to slow down, giving rise to the era of multi-core/multi-thread processors. For example, the IBM POWER4 processor, ...

    Performance characterization and optimization of in-memory data analytics on a scale-up server 

    Awan, Ahsan Javed (Fecha de defensa: 2017-12-15)

    The sheer increase in volume of data over the last decade has triggered research in cluster computing frameworks that enable web enterprises to extract big insights from big data. While Apache Spark defines the state of ...

    Performance Improvement of Multithreaded Java Applications Execution on Multiprocessor Systems 

    Guitart Fernández, Jordi (Fecha de defensa: 2005-11-02)

    El disseny del llenguatge Java, que inclou aspectes importants com són la seva portabilitat i neutralitat envers l'arquitectura, les seves capacitats multithreading, la seva familiaritat (degut a la seva semblança amb ...

    Performance Prediction and Evaluation Tools 

    Girona Turell, Sergi (Fecha de defensa: 2003-07-24)

    La predicció és un concepte de recerca molt interessant. No es només predir el resultat futur, sinó que també cal predir el resultat conegut, a vegades anomenat validació. <br/><br/>L'aplicació de tècniques de predicció ...

    Performance simulation methodologies for hardware/software co-designed processors 

    Brankovic, Aleksandar (Fecha de defensa: 2015-03-17)

    Recently the community started looking into Hardware/Software (HW/SW) co-designed processors as potential solutions to move towards the less power consuming and the less complex designs. Unlike other solutions, they reduce ...

    Performance-aware energy optimizations in networks for HPC 

    Saravanan, Karthikeyan P. (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-02)

    Energy efficiency is an important challenge in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). High energy requirements not only limit the potential to realize next-generation machines but are also an increasing part of the ...

    Planificación global en sistemas multiprocesador de tiempo real 

    Banús Alsina, Josep María (Fecha de defensa: 2008-05-29)

    Esta tesis afronta el problema de la planificación de sistemas de tiempo real utilizando sistemas multiprocesador con memoria compartida. Según laliteratura este problema es NP-Hard. En las aplicaciones de sistemas de ...