Dickov, Branimir (Date of defense: 2015-12-10)
Interconnection networks represent the backbone of large-scale parallel systems. In order to build ultra-scale supercomputers larger interconnection networks are being designed and deployed. As compute ...
Hayes, Timothy (Date of defense: 2015-07-08)
As the rate of annual data generation grows exponentially, there is a demand to manage, query and summarise vast amounts of information quickly. In the past, frequency scaling was relied upon to push ...
Brankovic, Aleksandar (Date of defense: 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 ...
Carretero Casado, Javier Sebastian (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)
Continuous improvements in transistor scaling together with microarchitectural advances have made possible the widespread adoption of high-performance processors across all market segments. However, the ...
Planas Carbonell, Judit (Date of defense: 2015-11-03)
There is a clear trend nowadays to use heterogeneous high-performance computers, as they offer considerably greater computing power than homogeneous CPU systems. Extending traditional CPU systems with ...
Servat Gelabert, Harald (Date of defense: 2015-07-31)
Nowadays, supercomputers deliver an enormous amount of computation power; however, it is well-known that applications only reach a fraction of it. One limiting factor is the single processor performance ...
Coras, Florin (Date of defense: 2015-07-23)
In just four decades the Internet has gone from a lab experiment to a worldwide, business critical infrastructure that caters to the communication needs of almost a half of the Earth's population. With ...
González Alvárez, Cecilia Noemí (Date of defense: 2015-11-16)
In the last years, hardware specialization has received renewed attention as chips approach a utilization wall. Specialized accelerators can take advantage of underutilized transistors implementing ...
Llort Sánchez, Germán M. (Date of defense: 2015-11-03)
With ever more powerful machines being constantly deployed, it is crucial to manage the computational resources efficiently. This is important both from the point of view of the individual user, who ...
Vega D'Aurelio, Davide (Date of defense: 2015-12-21)
Contributory and volunteer computing ecosystems built around a community of participants need, like any other common-pool resources, an adaptive governance mechanism to guarantee the sustainability of ...