• 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 ...
    • Evaluation of Parallel Differential Evolution Implementations on MapReduce and Spark 

      Teijeiro, Diego; Pardo, Xoán C.; Penas, David R.; González, Patricia; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Springer, 2017-09)
      [Abstract] Global optimization problems arise in many areas of science and engineering, computational and systems biology and bioinformatics among them. Many research efforts have focused on developing parallel metaheuristics ...
    • Exploiting Heterogeneous Parallelism With the Heterogeneous Programming Library 

      Viñas Buceta, Moisés; Bozkus, Zeki; Fraguela, Basilio B. (Elsevier, 2013)
      [Abstract] While recognition of the advantages of heterogeneous computing is steadily growing, the issues of programmability and portability hinder its exploitation. The introduction of the OpenCL standard was a major step ...
    • Exploiting locality in the run-time parallelization of irregular loops 

      Martín, María J.; Singh, David E.; Touriño, Juan; Rivera, Francisco F. (C R C Press, LLC, 2002-12-10)
      [Abstract] The goal of this work is the efficient parallel execution of loops with indirect array accesses, in order to be embedded in a parallelizing compiler framework. In this kind of loop pattern, dependences can not ...
    • Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis of Construction and Demolition Waste Management in the European Economic Area 

      Taboada, Guillermo L.; Seruca, Isabel; Sousa, Cristina; Pereira, Ángeles (M D P I AG, 2020-06-18)
      [Abstract] This paper deals with the efficiency and sustainability of Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) management in 30 Member States of the European Economic Area (EEA) (the 28 European Union countries plus Norway ...
    • Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis of Urban Rail Transit 

      Taboada, Guillermo L.; Han, Liangxiu (MDPI AG, 2020-08-07)
      [Abstract] This paper deals with the efficiency and sustainability of urban rail transit (URT) using exploratory data analytics (EDA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The first stage of the proposed methodology is EDA ...
    • Extending an Application-Level Checkpointing Tool to Provide Fault Tolerance Support to OpenMP Applications 

      Losada, Nuria; Martín, María J.; Rodríguez, Gabriel; González, Patricia (Technische Universitaet Graz * Institut fuer Informationssysteme und Computer Medien,Graz University of Technology, Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, 2014-09)
      [Abstract] Despite the increasing popularity of shared-memory systems, there is a lack of tools for providing fault tolerance support to shared-memory applications. CPPC (ComPiler for Portable Checkpointing) is an ...
    • Extending the Globus Information Service with the Common Information Model 

      Díaz, Iván; Fernández, G.; González, Patricia; Martín, María J.; Touriño, Juan (IEEE Computer Society, 2011-07-14)
      [Abstract] The need of task-adapted and complete information for the management of resources is a well known issue in Grid computing. Globus Toolkit 4 (GT4) includes the Monitoring and Discovery System component (MDS4) to ...
    • F-MPJ: scalable Java message-passing communications on parallel systems 

      Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2012-04)
      [Abstract] This paper presents F-MPJ (Fast MPJ), a scalable and efficient Message-Passing in Java (MPJ) communication middleware for parallel computing. The increasing interest in Java as the programming language of the ...