• Analysis of I/O Performance on an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute and High I/O Platform 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer Netherlands, 2013-12)
      [Abstract] Cloud computing is currently being explored by the scientific community to assess its suitability for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. In this novel paradigm, compute and storage resources, as well ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • FastMPJ: a scalable and efficient Java message-passing library 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2014)
      [Abstract] The performance and scalability of communications are key for high performance computing (HPC) applications in the current multi-core era. Despite the significant benefits (e.g., productivity, portability, ...
    • General‐purpose computation on GPUs for high performance cloud computing 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2013-08)
      [Abstract] Cloud computing is offering new approaches for High Performance Computing (HPC) as it provides dynamically scalable resources as a service over the Internet. In addition, General‐Purpose computation on Graphical ...
    • Java in the High Performance Computing arena: Research, practice and experience 

      Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier BV, 2013-05-01)
      [Abstract] The rising interest in Java for High Performance Computing (HPC) is based on the appealing features of this language for programming multi-core cluster architectures, particularly the built-in networking and ...
    • Low‐latency Java communication devices on RDMA‐enabled networks 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)
      [Abstract] Providing high‐performance inter‐node communication is a key capability for running high performance computing applications efficiently on parallel architectures. In fact, current systems deployments are aggregating ...
    • Multithreaded and Spark parallelization of feature selection filters 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Ramos Garea, Sabela; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Touriño, Juan (2016)
      [Abstract]: Vast amounts of data are generated every day, constituting a volume that is challenging to analyze. Techniques such as feature selection are advisable when tackling large datasets. Among the tools that provide ...
    • Nonblocking collectives for scalable Java communications 

      Ramos Garea, Sabela; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015-04-22)
      [Abstract] This paper presents a Java implementation of the recently published MPI 3.0 nonblocking message passing collectives in order to analyze and assess the feasibility of taking advantage of these operations in shared ...
    • Parallel Pairwise Epistasis Detection on Heterogeneous Computing Architectures 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Schmidt, Bertil (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016-08)
      [Abstract] Development of new methods to detect pairwise epistasis, such as SNP-SNP interactions, in Genome-Wide Association Studies is an important task in bioinformatics as they can help to explain genetic influences on ...
    • Performance analysis of HPC applications in the cloud 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 2013-01)
      [Abstract] The scalability of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications depends heavily on the efficient support of network communications in virtualized environments. However, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers ...
    • Performance Evaluation of Data-Intensive Computing Applications on a Public IaaS Cloud 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      [Abstract] The advent of cloud computing technologies, which dynamically provide on-demand access to computational resources over the Internet, is offering new possibilities to many scientists and researchers. Nowadays, ...