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Ciaccia, Francesco (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Nowadays massive amounts of data are being moved over the Internet thanks to data-hungry applications, Big Data, and multimedia content. Combined with a reduction in cost and augmented reliability for high-speed broadband ...
Reyes Ávila, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2012-11-23)
This work presents the development and experimental validation of a generic workflow model applicable to any parameter sweep problem: the Parameter Sweep Scientific Workflow (PSWF) model. As part of it, a model for the ...
Gallardo Gómez, Antonia (Date of defense: 2013-10-07)
Current distributed systems that are capable of sharing resources in a distributed manner are experiencing an increase in their use and scope.This increased use in various application areas is largely due to the low cost ...
Larriba Pey, Josep Lluís (Date of defense: 1995-03-10)
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 ...
Parcerisa Bundó, Joan Manuel (Date of defense: 2004-06-17)
L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és proposar noves tècniques per al disseny de microarquitectures clúster superescalars eficients. Les microarquitectures clúster particionen el disseny de diversos components crítics del hardware ...
Stanić, Milan (Date of defense: 2017-01-31)
In the last 15 years, power dissipation and energy consumption have become crucial design concerns for almost all computer systems. Technology feature size scaling leads to higher power density and therefore to complex and ...
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 ...
Yalcin, Gulay (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
In the last decades, the computing technology experienced tremendous developments. For instance, transistors' feature size shrank to half at every two years as consistently from the first time Moore stated his law. ...
Agirre Troncoso, Irune (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
An increasing variety of emerging systems relentlessly replaces or augments the functionality of mechanical subsystems with embedded electronics. For quantity, complexity, and use, the safety of such subsystems is an ...
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 ...
Becerra Sánchez, Enriqueta Patricia (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
Driving a vehicle is a complex activity exposed to continuous changes such as speed limits and vehicular traffic. Drivers require a high degree of concentration when performing this activity, increasing the amount of mental ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gutiérrez Torre, Alberto (Date of defense: 2022-11-22)
(English) In recent years IoT and Smart Cities have become a popular paradigm of computing that is based on network-enabled devices connected providing different functionalities, from sensor measures to domotic actions. ...
Tabatabaeimehr, Fatemehsadat (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
Network automation has been long time envisioned. In fact, the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN), defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), is a hierarchy of management layers (network element, ...
García-Cervigon Gutiérrez, Manuel (Date of defense: 2012-11-02)
Financial service providers are moving many services online reducing their costs and facilitating customers¿ interaction. Unfortunately criminals have quickly found several ways to avoid most security measures applied to ...
Etinski, Maja (Date of defense: 2012-06-01)
Recent increase in performance of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems has been followed by even higher increase in power consumption. Power draw of modern supercomputers leads to very high operating costs and ...
Garcia Gasulla, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-04-18)
It is well known that load imbalance is a major source of efficiency loss in HPC (High Performance Computing) environments. The load imbalance problem has very different sources, from static ones related to the data ...
Martorell Bofill, Xavier (Date of defense: 1999-07-09)