Sequeira, Diogo Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2022-10-31)
(English) Optical communications have been extensively investigated and enhanced in the last decades. Nowadays, they are responsible to transport all the data traffic generated around the world, from ...
Herrero Abellanas, Enric (Date of defense: 2011-07-05)
Les últimes dècades el rendiment dels processadors i de les memòries ha millorat a diferent ritme, limitant el rendiment dels processadors i creant el conegut memory gap. Sol·lucionar aquesta diferència ...
Batbayar, Khulan (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
Internet access is still unavailable to one-third of the world population due to the lack of infrastructure, high cost, and the digital divide. Many access-limited communities opt for shared Internet ...
Castro, Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-10-10)
The ever increasing IP traffic volume has finally brought to light the high inefficiency of current wavelength-routed over rigid-grid optical networks in matching the client layer requirements. Such an ...
Slijepcevic, Mladen (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Industry developing Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES), such as Aerospace, Space, Automotive and Railways, faces relentless demands for increased guaranteed processor performance to support new ...
Sánchez Carracedo, Fermín (Date of defense: 1996-01-12)
Developing efficient programs for many of the current parallel computers is not easy due to the architectural complexity of those machines. The wide variety of machine organizations often makes it more ...
Hasanov Zyulkyarov, Ferard (Date of defense: 2011-07-19)
Transactional memory (TM) is a new optimistic synchronization technique which has the potential of making shared memory parallel programming easier compared to locks without giving up from the performance. ...
Armejach Sanosa, Adrià (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)
Transactional Memory (TM) aims to make shared memory parallel programming easier by abstracting away the complexity of managing shared data. The programmer defines sections of code, called transactions, ...
Casas Guix, Marc (Date of defense: 2010-03-09)
This work is motivated by the growing intricacy of high performance computing infrastructures. For example, supercomputer MareNostrum (installed in 2005 at BSC) has 10240 processors and currently there ...
Yannuzzi, Marcelo (Date of defense: 2007-12-19)
Uno de los problemas más complejos en redes de computadores es el de proporcionar garantías de calidad y confiabilidad a las comunicaciones de datos entre entidades que se encuentran en dominios distintos. ...