• A general and efficient divide-and-conquer algorithm framework for multi-core clusters 

      González, Carlos H.; Fraguela, Basilio B. (SpringerLink, 2017)
      [Abstract]Divide-and-conquer is one of the most important patterns of parallelism, being applicable to a large variety of problems. In addition, the most powerful parallel systems available nowadays are computer clusters ...
    • An Efficient Ant Colony Optimization Framework for HPC Environments 

      González, Patricia; Osorio, Roberto; Pardo, Xoán C.; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier, 2022)
      [Abstract] Combinatorial optimization problems arise in many disciplines, both in the basic sciences and in applied fields such as engineering and economics. One of the most popular combinatorial optimization methods is ...
    • 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 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 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Fast search of third-order epistatic interactions on CPU and GPU clusters 

      Ponte-Fernández, Christian; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Martín, María J. (Sage Publications Ltd., 2019-05-27)
      [Abstract] Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWASs), analyses that try to find a link between a given phenotype (such as a disease) and genetic markers, have been growing in popularity in the recent years. Relations between ...
    • High-speed exhaustive 3-locus interaction epistasis analysis on FPGAs 

      Kässens, Jan Christian; Wienbrandt, Lars; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Schmidt, Bertil; Schimmler, Manfred (Elsevier B.V., 2015-07)
      [Abstract]: Epistasis, the interaction between genes, has become a major topic in molecular and quantitative genetics. It is believed that these interactions play a significant role in genetic variations causing complex ...
    • 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 ...
    • Numerical Simulation of Pollutant Transport in a Shallow-Water System on the Cell Heterogeneous Processor 

      González, Carlos H.; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Andrade, Diego; García Rodríguez, José Antonio; Castro, M.J. (Springer, 2013)
      [Abstract] This paper presents an implementation, optimized for the Cell processor, of a finite volume numerical scheme for 2D shallow-water systems with pollutant transport. A description of the special architecture and ...
    • Parallel and Scalable Short-Read Alignment on Multi-Core Clusters Using UPC++ 

      Liu, Yongchao; Schmidt, Bertil; González-Domínguez, Jorge (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 2016)
      [Abstract]: The growth of next-generation sequencing (NGS) datasets poses a challenge to the alignment of reads to reference genomes in terms of alignment quality and execution speed. Some available aligners have been shown ...
    • Parallel ant colony optimization for the training of cell signaling networks 

      González, Patricia; Prado-Rodriguez, Roberto; Gábor, Attila; Saez-Rodriguez, Julio; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier, 2022)
      [Abstract]: Acquiring a functional comprehension of the deregulation of cell signaling networks in disease allows progress in the development of new therapies and drugs. Computational models are becoming increasingly popular ...
    • Parallel definition of tear film maps on distributed-memory clusters for the support of dry eye diagnosis 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Remeseiro, Beatriz; Martín, María J. (Elsevier Ireland Ltd., 2017)
      [Abstract] Background and objectives The analysis of the interference patterns on the tear film lipid layer is a useful clinical test to diagnose dry eye syndrome. This task can be automated with a high degree of accuracy ...
    • Parallel feature selection for distributed-memory clusters 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Freire, Borja; Touriño, Juan (2019)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection is nowadays an extremely important data mining stage in the field of machine learning due to the appearance of problems of high dimensionality. In the literature there are numerous feature ...
    • Parallel-FST: A feature selection library for multicore clusters 

      Beceiro, Bieito; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Touriño, Juan (Elsevier, 2022-11)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection is a subfield of machine learning focused on reducing the dimensionality of datasets by performing a computationally intensive process. This work presents Parallel-FST, a publicly available ...
    • PARamrfinder: detecting allele-specific DNA methylation on multicore clusters 

      Fernández Fraga, Alejandro; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Martín, María J. (Springer, 2024-01)
      [Abstract]: The discovery of Allele-Specific Methylation (ASM) is an important research field in biology as it regulates genomic imprinting, which has been identified as the cause of some genetic diseases. Nevertheless, ...
    • parSRA: A framework for the parallel execution of short read aligners on compute clusters 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Hundt, Christian; Schmidt, Bertil (2018)
      [Abstract]: The growth of next generation sequencing datasets poses as a challenge to the alignment of reads to reference genomes in terms of both accuracy and speed. In this work we present parSRA, a parallel framework ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...