• BDEv 3.0: energy efficiency and microarchitectural characterization of Big Data processing frameworks 

      Veiga, Jorge; Enes, Jonatan; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan (Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 2018-09)
      [Abstract] As the size of Big Data workloads keeps increasing, the evaluation of distributed frameworks becomes a crucial task in order to identify potential performance bottlenecks that may delay the processing of large ...
    • BDWatchdog: real-time monitoring and profiling of Big Data applications and frameworks 

      Enes, Jonatan; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan (Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 2018-10)
      [Abstract] Current Big Data applications are characterized by a heavy use of system resources (e.g., CPU, disk) generally distributed across a cluster. To effectively improve their performance there is a critical need for ...
    • Big Data Geospatial Processing for Massive Aerial LiDAR Datasets 

      Deibe, David; Amor, Margarita; Doallo, Ramón (M D P I AG, 2020-02-21)
      [Abstract] For years, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology has been considered as a challenge when it comes to developing efficient software to handle the extremely large volumes of data this surveying method is ...
    • Big Data Geospatial Processing for Massive Aerial LiDAR Datasets 

      Deibe, David; Amor, Margarita; Doallo, Ramón (MDPI AG, 2020-02-21)
      [Abstract] For years, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology has been considered as a challenge when it comes to developing efficient software to handle the extremely large volumes of data this surveying method is ...
    • Big Data-Oriented PaaS Architecture with Disk-as-a-Resource Capability and Container-Based Virtualization 

      López Cacheiro, Javier; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan; Enes, Jonatan (Springer Netherlands, 2018-12)
      [Abstract] With the increasing adoption of Big Data technologies as basic tools for the ongoing Digital Transformation, there is a high demand for data-intensive applications. In order to efficiently execute such applications, ...
    • BigDEC: A multi-algorithm Big Data tool based on the k-mer spectrum method for scalable short-read error correction 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; González-Domínguez, Jorge (Elsevier, 2024-05)
      [Abstract]: Despite the significant improvements in both throughput and cost provided by modern Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms, sequencing errors in NGS datasets can still degrade the quality of downstream ...
    • bioScience: A new python science library for high-performance computing bioinformatics analytics 

      López-Fernández, Aurelio; Gómez-Vela, Francisco A.; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Bidare-Divakarachari, Parameshachari (Elsevier Ltd, 2024)
      [Abstract]: BioScience is an advanced Python library designed to satisfy the growing data analysis needs in the field of bioinformatics by leveraging High-Performance Computing (HPC). This library encompasses a vast multitude ...
    • BPLG–BMCS: GPU-sorting algorithm using a tuning skeleton library 

      Pérez Diéguez, Adrián; Amor, Margarita; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2017)
      [Abstract] In this work, we present an efficient and portable sorting operator for GPUs. Specifically, we propose an algorithmic variant of the bitonic merge sort which reduces the number of processing stages and internal ...
    • Characterization of message-passing overhead on the AP3000 multicomputer 

      Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (IEEE, 2001-09)
      [Abstract] The performance of the communication primitives of parallel computers is critical for the overall system performance. The characterization of the communication overhead is very important to estimate the global ...
    • Clupiter: a Raspberry Pi mini-supercomputer for educational purposes 

      Rodríguez-Iglesias, Alonso; Martín, María J.; Touriño, Juan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024)
      [Abstract]: The main objective of this work is to bring supercomputing and parallel processing closer to non-specialized audiences by building a Raspberry Pi cluster, called Clupiter, which emulates the operation of a ...
    • Communication avoiding and overlapping for numerical linear algebra 

      Georganas, Evangelos; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Solomonik, Edgar; Zheng, Yili; Touriño, Juan; Yelick, Katherine (IEEE Computer Society, 2013-02-25)
      [Abstract] To efficiently scale dense linear algebra problems to future exascale systems, communication cost must be avoided or overlapped. Communication-avoiding 2.5D algorithms improve scalability by reducing inter-processor ...
    • Comparison of Hardwired and Microprogrammed Statechart Implementations 

      Cereijo García, Javier; Osorio, Roberto (MDPI, 2020)
      [Abstract]: In scientific facilities such as particle accelerators, fast and jitter-free synchronization is required in order to trigger a large number of actuators at the right time in a variety of situations. The behaviour ...
    • Compiler support for parallel code generation through kernel recognition 

      Arenaz Silva, Manuel; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (IEEE Computer Society, 2004-06-07)
      [Abstract] Summary form only given. The automatic parallelization of loops that contain complex computations is still a challenge for current parallelizing compilers. The main limitations are related to the analysis of ...
    • Compiler-Assisted Checkpointing of Parallel Codes: The Cetus and LLVM Experience 

      Rodríguez, Gabriel; Martín, María J.; González, Patricia; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2013)
      [Abstract] With the evolution of high-performance computing, parallel applications have developed an increasing necessity for fault tolerance, most commonly provided by checkpoint and restart techniques. Checkpointing tools ...
    • Concept Drift Detection and Adaptation for Federated and Continual Learning 

      Casado, Fernando E.; Lema, Dylan; Criado, Marcos F.; Iglesias, Roberto; Regueiro, Carlos V.; Barro, Senén (Springer, 2021)
      [Abstract] Smart devices, such as smartphones, wearables, robots, and others, can collect vast amounts of data from their environment. This data is suitable for training machine learning models, which can significantly ...
    • CPPC: a compiler‐assisted tool for portable checkpointing of message‐passing applications 

      Rodríguez, Gabriel; Martín, María J.; González, Patricia; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2010-11-19)
      [Abstract] With the evolution of high‐performance computing toward heterogeneous, massively parallel systems, parallel applications have developed new checkpoint and restart necessities. Whether due to a failure in the ...
    • CUDA-JMI: Acceleration of feature selection on heterogeneous systems 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Expósito, Roberto R.; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica (Elsevier, 2020-01)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection is a crucial step nowadays in machine learning and data analytics to remove irrelevant and redundant characteristics and thus to provide fast and reliable analyses. Many research works have ...
    • Design and Implementation of an extended collectives library for unified Parallel C 

      Teijeiro Barjas, Carlos; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón; Mouriño, José C.; Mallón, Damián A.; Wibecan, Brian (Springer New York LLC, 2013)
      [Abstract] Unified Parallel C (UPC) is a parallel extension of ANSI C based on the Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) programming model, which provides a shared memory view that simplifies code development while it ...
    • Design and Implementation of MapReduce using the PGAS Programming Model with UPC 

      Teijeiro Barjas, Carlos; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (IEEE Computer Society, 2012-01-03)
      [Abstract] MapReduce is a powerful tool for processing large data sets used by many applications running in distributed environments. However, despite the increasing number of computationally intensive problems that require ...
    • Design of efficient Java message-passing collectives on multi-core clusters 

      Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2011-02)
      [Abstract] This paper presents a scalable and efficient Message-Passing in Java (MPJ) collective communication library for parallel computing on multi-core architectures. The continuous increase in the number of cores per ...