• Real-time resource scaling platform for Big Data workloads on serverless environments 

      Enes, Jonatan; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan (2020)
      The serverless execution paradigm is becoming an increasingly popular option when workloads are to be deployed in an abstracted way, more specifically, without specifying any infrastructure requirements. Currently, such ...
    • Reducing the overhead of an MPI application-level migration approach 

      Cores González, Iván; Rodríguez, Mónica; González, Patricia; Martín, María J. (Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 2016)
      [Abstract] Process migration provides many benefits for parallel environments including dynamic load balance, data access locality, or fault tolerance. This work proposes a solution that reduces the memory and I/O overhead ...
    • Rendering of Bézier Surfaces on Handheld Devices 

      Concheiro, Raquel; Amor, Margarita; Padrón, Emilio J.; Gil, Marisa; Martorell, Xavier (Vaclav Skala - Union Agency, 2013)
      [Abstract] Bézier surfaces have been widely employed in the designing of complex scenes with high-quality results. Nevertheless, parametric surfaces cannot be directly rendered in the current GPUs of modern handheld devices. ...
    • Representing Integer Sequences Using Piecewise-Affine Loops 

      Rodríguez, Gabriel; Pouchet, Louis-Noël; Touriño, Juan (MDPI, 2021)
      [Abstract] A formal, high-level representation of programs is typically needed for static and dynamic analyses performed by compilers. However, the source code of target applications is not always available in an analyzable ...
    • Resilient MPI applications using an application-level checkpointing framework and ULFM 

      Losada, Nuria; Cores González, Iván; Martín, María J.; González, Patricia (Springer New York LLC, 2017-01)
      [Abstract] Future exascale systems, formed by millions of cores, will present high failure rates, and long-running applications will need to make use of new fault tolerance techniques to ensure successful execution completion. ...
    • RGen: Data Generator for Benchmarking Big Data Workloads 

      Pérez-Jove, Rubén; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan (MDPI, 2021)
      [Abstract] This paper presents RGen, a parallel data generator for benchmarking Big Data workloads, which integrates existing features and new functionalities in a standalone tool. The main functionalities developed in ...
    • Running scientific codes on amazon EC2: a performance analysis of five high-end instances 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Pardo, Xoán C.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2013)
      [Abstract] Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a well-known public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider whose Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) o ering includes some instances, known as cluster instances, aimed at High-Performance ...
    • Scalable PGAS collective operations in NUMA clusters 

      Mallón, Damián A.; Teijeiro Barjas, Carlos; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Gómez, Andrés (Springer New York LLC, 2014-12)
      [Abstract] The increasing number of cores per processor is turning manycore-based systems in pervasive. This involves dealing with multiple levels of memory in non uniform memory access (NUMA) systems and processor cores ...
    • ScalaParBiBit: Scaling the Binary Biclustering in Distributed-Memory Systems 

      Fraguela, Basilio B.; Andrade, Diego; González-Domínguez, Jorge (SpringerLink, 2021-03-19)
      [Abstract] Biclustering is a data mining technique that allows us to find groups of rows and columns that are highly correlated in a 2D dataset. Although there exist several software applications to perform biclustering, ...
    • Self-Organized Multi-Camera Network for a Fast and Easy Deployment of Ubiquitous Robots in Unknown Environments 

      Canedo-Rodríguez, Adrián; Iglesias, Roberto; Regueiro, Carlos V.; Álvarez-Santos, Víctor; Pardo, Xosé Manuel (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013)
      To bring cutting edge robotics from research centres to social environments, the robotics community must start providing affordable solutions: the costs must be reduced and the quality and usefulness of the robot services ...
    • SeQual-Stream: approaching stream processing to quality control of NGS datasets 

      Castellanos Rodríguez, Óscar; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan (BMC, 2023-10)
      [Abstract]: Background Quality control of DNA sequences is an important data preprocessing step in many genomic analyses. However, all existing parallel tools for this purpose are based on a batch processing model, ...
    • SeQual: Big Data Tool to Perform Quality Control and Data Preprocessing of Large NGS Datasets 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Galego Torreiro, Roi; González-Domínguez, Jorge (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-08-07)
      [Abstract] This paper presents SeQual, a scalable tool to efficiently perform quality control of large genomic datasets. Our tool currently supports more than 30 different operations (e.g., filtering, trimming, formatting) ...
    • Serverless-like platform for container-based YARN clusters 

      Castellanos Rodríguez, Óscar; Expósito, Roberto R.; Enes, Jonatan; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan (Elsevier, 2024-06)
      [Abstract]: Serverless computing is an emerging paradigm that has gained a lot of relevance in recent years, as it allows users to consume computing resources without worrying about the underlying infrastructure and pay ...
    • Servet: A Benchmark Suite for Autotuning on Multicore Clusters 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Martín, María J.; Touriño, Juan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010-05-24)
      [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 ...
    • SMusket: Spark-based DNA error correction on distributed-memory systems 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Touriño, Juan (Elsevier B.V., 2020)
      [Abstract]: Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have revolutionized genomics research over the last decade, bringing new opportunities for scientists to perform groundbreaking biological studies. Error correction ...
    • Solving Large Problem Sizes of Index-Digit Algorithms on GPU: FFT and Tridiagonal System Solvers 

      Pérez Diéguez, Adrián; Amor, Margarita; Lobeiras Blanco, Jacobo; Doallo, Ramón (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018)
      [Abstract] Current Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are capable of obtaining high computational performance in scientific applications. Nevertheless, programmers have to use suitable parallel algorithms for these architectures ...
    • Spark Implementation of the Enhanced Scatter Search Metaheuristic: Methodology and Assessment 

      Pardo, Xoán C.; Argüeso-Alejandro, Pablo; González, Patricia; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier BV, 2020-12)
      [Abstract] Optimization problems arise nowadays in all disciplines, not only in the scientific area but also in the field of engineering or economics, and in many others. Currently, challenging optimization problems require ...
    • SparkEC: speeding up alignment-based DNA error correction tools 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Martínez-Sánchez, Marco; Touriño, Juan (BioMed Central (Springer), 2022)
      [Abstract]: In recent years, huge improvements have been made in the context of sequencing genomic data under what is called Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). However, the DNA reads generated by current NGS platforms are ...
    • Sparse Givens QR Factorization on a Multiprocessor 

      Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón; Zapata, E.L. (IEEE Computer Society, 1996-06-01)
      [Abstract] We present a parallel algorithm for the QR factorization with column pivoting of a sparse matrix by means of Givens rotations. Nonzero elements of the matrix M to be decomposed are stored in a one dimensional ...
    • Sparse Householder QR factorization on a mesh 

      Doallo, Ramón; Touriño, Juan; Zapata, Emilio L. (IEEE Computer Society, 1996-01)
      [Abstract] We analyze the parallelization of QR factorization by means of Householder transformations. This parallelization is carried out on a machine with a mesh topology (a 2-D torus to be more precise). We use a cyclic ...