• Texture Mapping on NURBS Surface 

      Vázquez Pardo, Sergio; Amor, Margarita (M D P I AG, 2018-09-17)
      [Abstract] Texture mapping allows high resolution details over 3D surfaces. Nevertheless, texture mapping has a number of unresolved problems such as distortion, boundary between textures or filtering. On the other hand, ...
    • The HPS3 Service: Reduction of Cost and Transfer Time for Storing Data on Clouds 

      Veiga, Jorge; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Pardo, Xoán C.; Touriño, Juan (IEEE Computer Society, 2015-03-12)
      [Abstract] In the past several years, organizations have been changing their storage methods as the volume of data they managed has increased. The cloud computing paradigm offers new ways of storing data based on scalability ...
    • The New UPC++ DepSpawn High Performance Library for Data-Flow Computing with Hybrid Parallelism 

      Fraguela, Basilio B.; Andrade, Diego (Springer, 2022)
      [Abstract] Data-flow computing is a natural and convenient paradigm for expressing parallelism. This is particularly true for tools that automatically extract the data dependencies among the tasks while allowing to exploit ...
    • The Phylogenetic Likelihood Library 

      Flouri, Tomas; Izquierdo-Carrasco, F.; Darriba, Diego; Aberer, Andre J.; Nguyen, Lam-Tung; Minh, B.Q.; Haeseler, Arndt von; Stamatakis, Alexandros (Oxford University Press, 2015-03-01)
      [Abstract] We introduce the Phylogenetic Likelihood Library (PLL), a highly optimized application programming interface for developing likelihood-based phylogenetic inference and postanalysis software. The PLL implements ...
    • The Servet 3.0 benchmark suite: characterization of network performance degradation 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Martín, María J.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan (Pergamon Press, 2013-11)
      [Abstract] Servet is a suite of benchmarks focused on extracting a set of parameters with high influence on the overall performance of multicore clusters. These parameters can be used to optimize the performance of parallel ...
    • The Wall Lizards of the Balkan Peninsula: Tackling Questions at the Interphase of Phylogenomics and Population Genomics 

      Psonis, Nikolaos; Antioniou, Aglaia; Karameta, Emmanouela; Darriba, Diego; Stamatakis, Alexandros; Lymberakis, Petros; Poulakakis, Nikos (Elsevier, 2021)
      [Abstract] Wall lizards of the genus Podarcis (Sauria, Lacertidae) are the predominant reptile group in southern Europe, including 24 recognized species. Mitochondrial DNA data have shown that, with the exception of P. ...
    • Towards a Self-Sufficient Face Verification System 

      López-López, Eric; Regueiro, Carlos V.; Pardo, Xosé Manuel; Franco, Annalisa; Lumini, Alessandra (Elsevier, 2021)
      [Abstract] The absence of a previous collaborative manual enrolment represents a significant handicap towards designing a face verification system for face re-identification purposes. In this scenario, the system must learn ...
    • Towards cloud-based parallel metaheuristics: A case study in computational biology with Differential Evolution and Spark 

      Teijeiro, Diego; Pardo, Xoán C.; González, Patricia; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Sage Publications Ltd., 2016-11-28)
      [Abstract] Many key problems in science and engineering can be formulated and solved using global optimization techniques. In the particular case of computational biology, the development of dynamic (kinetic) models is ...
    • Towards Low-Latency Model-Oriented Distributed Systems Management 

      Díaz, Iván; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer, 2007)
      [Abstract] Windows and Unix systems have been traditionally very different with regard to configuration storage and management. In this paper we have adapted our CIM-based model-driven management framework, AdCIM, to ...
    • Toxo: A Library for Calculating Penetrance Tables of High-Order Epistasis Models 

      Ponte-Fernández, Christian; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Carvajal-Rodriguez, Antonio; Martín, María J. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2020-04-09)
      [Abstract] Background Epistasis is defined as the interaction between different genes when expressing a specific phenotype. The most common way to characterize an epistatic relationship is using a penetrance table, which ...
    • Tree Partitioning Reduction: A New Parallel Partition Method for Solving Tridiagonal Systems 

      Pérez Diéguez, Adrián; Amor, Margarita; Doallo, Ramón (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019-08)
    • Truncated SIMD Multiplier Architecture for Approximate Computing in Low-Power Programmable Processors 

      Osorio, Roberto; Rodríguez, Gabriel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019)
      [Abstract]: Approximate computing has been exploited for many years in application-specific architectures. Recently, it has also been proposed for low-power programmable processors. However, this poses some challenges as, ...
    • UPCBLAS: a library for parallel matrix computations in Unified Parallel C 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Martín, María J.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón; Mallón, Damián A.; Wibecan, Brian (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2012-09-25)
      [Abstract] The popularity of Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages has increased during the last years thanks to their high programmability and performance through an efficient exploitation of data locality, ...
    • Using Artificial Vision Techniques for Individual Player Tracking in Sport Events 

      López Castro, Roberto; Andrade, Diego (M D P I AG, 2019-07-31)
      [Abstract] We introduce a hybrid approach that can track an individual football player in a video sequence. This solution achieves a good balance between speed and accuracy, combining traditional object tracking techniques ...
    • Using the Cloud for Parameter Estimation Problems: Comparing Spark vs MPI with a Case-Study 

      González, Patricia; Pardo, Xoán C.; Penas, David R.; Teijeiro, Diego; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-07-13)
      [Abstract] Systems biology is an emerging approach focused in generating new knowledge about complex biological systems by combining experimental data with mathematical modeling and advanced computational techniques. Many ...
    • VENOM: A Vectorized N:M Format for Unleashing the Power of Sparse Tensor Cores 

      López Castro, Roberto; Ivanov, Andrei; Andrade, Diego; Ben-Nun, Tal; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Hoefler, Torsten (Association for Computing Machinery, 2023-11)
      [Abstract]: The increasing success and scaling of Deep Learning models demands higher computational efficiency and power. Sparsification can lead to both smaller models as well as higher compute efficiency, and accelerated ...
    • Volatile STT-RAM Scratchpad Design and Data Allocation for Low Energy 

      Rodríguez, Gabriel; Touriño, Juan; Kandemir, Mahmut (Association for Computing Machinery, 2015)
      [Abstract] On-chip power consumption is one of the fundamental challenges of current technology scaling. Cache memories consume a sizable part of this power, particularly due to leakage energy. STT-RAM is one of several ...
    • Walking Recognition in Mobile Devices 

      Casado, Fernando E.; Rodríguez García, Germán; Iglesias Rodríguez, Roberto; Regueiro, Carlos V.; Barro, Senén; Canedo-Rodriguez, Adrián (MDPI AG, 2020-02-21)
      [Abstract] Presently, smartphones are used more and more for purposes that have nothing to do with phone calls or simple data transfers. One example is the recognition of human activity, which is relevant information for ...
    • Web-GIS tool for the management of rural land markets. Application to the Land Bank of Galicia (NWSpain) 

      Porta, Juan; Parapar López, Jorge; García, Paula; Fernández, Gracia; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón; Ónega, Francisco; Santé, Inés; Díaz, Pablo; Miranda, David; Crecente, Rafael (Springer, 2013)
      [Abstract] Land abandonment and stagnation of rural markets in the last few years have become one of the main concerns of rural administrations. The use of Web and GIS (Geographic Information System) technologies can help ...
    • XARK: an extensible framework for automatic recognition of computational kernels 

      Arenaz Silva, Manuel; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Association for Computing Machinery, 2008-10)
      [Abstract] The recognition of program constructs that are frequently used by software developers is a powerful mechanism for optimizing and parallelizing compilers to improve the performance of the object code. The development ...