• 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 ...
    • Design of Scalable Java Communication Middleware for Multi-Core Systems 

      Ramos Garea, Sabela; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Oxford University Press, 2013-02-01)
      [Abstract] This paper presents smdev, a shared memory communication middleware for multi-core systems. smdev provides a simple and powerful messaging application program interface that is able to exploit the underlying ...
    • Design of scalable Java message-passing communications over InfiniBand 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2012-07)
      [Abstract] This paper presents ibvdev a scalable and efficient low-level Java message-passing communication device over InfiniBand. The continuous increase in the number of cores per processor underscores the need for ...
    • Developing adaptive multi-device applications with the Heterogeneous Programming Library 

      Viñas Buceta, Moisés; Bozkus, Zeki; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Andrade, Diego; Doallo, Ramón (Springer, 2015)
      [Abstract] The usage of heterogeneous devices presents two main problems. One is their complex programming, a problem that grows when multiple devices are used. The second issue is that even if the codes for these devices ...
    • Device level communication libraries for high‐performance computing in Java 

      Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón; Shafi, Aamir; Baker, Mark; Carpenter, Bryan (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2011-12-25)
      [Abstract] Since its release, the Java programming language has attracted considerable attention from the high‐performance computing (HPC) community because of its portability, high programming productivity, and built‐in ...
    • Does the choice of nucleotide substitution models matter topologically? 

      Hoff, Michael; Orf, Stefan; Riehm, Benedikt; Darriba, Diego; Stamatakis, Alexandros (BioMed Central Ltd., 2016-03-24)
      [Abstract] Background: In the context of a master level programming practical at the computer science department of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, we developed and make available an open-source code for testing all ...
    • Easy Dataflow Programming in Clusters with UPC++ DepSpawn 

      Fraguela, Basilio B.; Andrade, Diego (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019-06-01)
      [Abstract]: The Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) programming model is one of the most relevant proposals to improve the ability of developers to exploit distributed memory systems. However, despite its important ...
    • Efficient Culling Techniques for Interactive Deformable NURBS Surfaces on GPU 

      Concheiro, Raquel; Amor, Margarita; Padrón, Emilio J.; Doggett, Michael (SciTePress, 2016-02)
      [Abstrtact] InfoValue: NURBS (Non-uniform rational B-splines) surfaces are the standard freeform representation in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications. Rendering NURBS surfaces accurately while they are interactively ...
    • Efficient high-precision integer multiplication on the GPU 

      Pérez Diéguez, Adrián; Amor, Margarita; Doallo, Ramón; Nukada, Akira; Matsuoka, Satoshi (SAGE Journals, 2022-03)
      [Abstract]: The multiplication of large integers, which has many applications in computer science, is an operation that can be expressed as a polynomial multiplication followed by a carry normalization. This work develops ...
    • Efficient Java Communication Protocols on High-speed Cluster Interconnects 

      Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (IEEE Computer Society, 2007-02-26)
      [Abstract] This paper presents communication strategies for achieving efficient parallel and distributed Java applications on clusters with high-speed interconnects. Communication performance is critical for the overall ...
    • Efficient Parallel Numerical Solver for the Elastohydrodynamic Reynolds–Hertz Problem 

      Arenaz Silva, Manuel; Doallo, Ramón; Touriño, Juan; Regueiro, Carlos V. (Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 2001-12-01)
      [Abstract] This work presents a parallel version of a complex numerical algorithm for solving an elastohydrodynamic piezoviscous lubrication problem studied in tribology. The numerical algorithm combines regula falsi, fixed ...
    • Enabling Hardware Affinity in JVM-Based Applications: A Case Study for Big Data 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Veiga, Jorge; Touriño, Juan (Springer, 2020)
      [Abstract]: Java has been the backbone of Big Data processing for more than a decade due to its interesting features such as object orientation, cross-platform portability and good programming productivity. In fact, most ...
    • Enhanced global optimization methods applied to complex fisheries stock assessment models 

      Penas, David R.; Gómez, Andrés; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Martín, María J.; Cerviño, Santiago (Elsevier BV, 2019-04)
      [Abstract] Statistical fisheries models are frequently used by researchers and agencies to understand the behavior of marine ecosystems or to estimate the maximum acceptable catch of different species of commercial interest. ...
    • Enhanced parallel Differential Evolution algorithm for problems in computational systems biology 

      Penas, David R.; Banga, Julio R.; González, Patricia; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier BV, 2015)
      [Abstract] Many key problems in computational systems biology and bioinformatics can be formulated and solved using a global optimization framework. The complexity of the underlying mathematical models require the use of ...
    • Enhancing in-memory Efficiency for MapReduce-based Data Processing 

      Veiga Fachal, Jorge; Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan (Academic Press, 2018-10)
      [Abstract] As the memory capacity of computational systems increases, the in-memory data management of Big Data processing frameworks becomes more crucial for performance. This paper analyzes and improves the memory ...
    • Evaluation of Existing Methods for High-Order Epistasis Detection 

      Ponte-Fernández, Christian; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Carvajal-Rodriguez, Antonio; Martín, María J. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-10-15)
      [Abstract] Finding epistatic interactions among loci when expressing a phenotype is a widely employed strategy to understand the genetic architecture of complex traits in GWAS. The abundance of methods dedicated to the ...
    • Evaluation of Java for General Purpose GPU Computing 

      Docampo, Jorge; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (IEEE Computer Society, 2013-07-01)
      [Abstract] The presence of many-core units as accelerators has been increasing due to their ability to improve the performance of highly parallel workloads. General Purpose GPU(GPGPU) computing has allowed the graphical ...
    • Evaluation of messaging middleware for high-performance cloud computing 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer U K, 2013-12)
      [Abstract] Cloud computing is posing several challenges, such as security, fault tolerance, access interface singularity, and network constraints, both in terms of latency and bandwidth. In this scenario, the performance ...