• 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 ...
    • Applying dynamic balancing to improve the performance of MPI parallel genomics applications 

      Fernández Fraga, Alejandro; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Martín, María J. (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024-05-21)
      [Absctract]: Genomics applications are becoming more and more important in the field of bioinformatics, as they allow researchers to extract meaningful information from the huge amount of data generated by the new sequencing ...
    • 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 ...
    • MPI-dot2dot: A Parallel Tool to Find DNA Tandem Repeats on Multicore Clusters 

      González-Domínguez, Jorge; Martín Martínez, José Manuel; Expósito, Roberto R. (Springer, 2022)
      [Abstract] Tandem Repeats (TRs) are segments that occur several times in a DNA sequence, and each copy is adjacent to other. In the last few years, TRs have gained significant attention as they are thought to be related ...
    • Novel parallelization of simulated annealing and Hooke & Jeeves search algorithms for multicore systems with application to complex fisheries stock assessment models 

      Vázquez Pardo, Sergio; Martín, María J.; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Gómez, Andrés; Rodríguez, Aurelio; Elvarsson, Bjarki Þór (Elsevier Ltd, 2016-11)
      [Abstract] Estimating parameters of a statistical fisheries assessment model typically involves a comparison of disparate datasets to a forward simulation model through a likelihood function. In all but trivial cases the ...
    • 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 simulation of Brownian dynamics on shared memory systems with OpenMP and Unified Parallel C 

      Teijeiro Barjas, Carlos; Sutmann, Godehard; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan (Springer New York LLC, 2013-09)
      [Abstract] The simulation of particle dynamics is an essential method to analyze and predict the behavior of molecules in a given medium. This work presents the design and implementation of a parallel simulation of Brownian ...
    • Parallelization of ARACNe, an Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks 

      Casal, Uxía; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Martín, María J. (M D P I AG, 2019-07-31)
      [Abstract] Gene regulatory networks are graphical representations of molecular regulators that interact with each other and with other substances in the cell to govern the gene expression. There are different computational ...
    • Parallelization of shallow water simulations on current multi-threaded systems 

      Lobeiras Blanco, Jacobo; Viñas Buceta, Moisés; Amor, Margarita; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Arenaz Silva, Manuel; García Rodríguez, José Antonio; Castro, M.J. (SAGE Journals, 2013-11)
      [Abstract]: In this work, several parallel implementations of a numerical model of pollutant transport on a shallow water system are presented. These parallel implementations are developed in two phases. First, the sequential ...
    • 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, ...
    • ParRADMeth: Identification of Differentially Methylated Regions on Multicore Clusters 

      Fernández Fraga, Alejandro; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Touriño, Juan (IEEE, 2023)
      [Abstract]: The discovery of Differentially Methylated (DM) regions is an important research field in biology, as it can help to anticipate the risk of suffering from specific diseases. Nevertheless, the high computational ...
    • 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 MPI, UPC and OpenMP on Multicore Architectures 

      Mallón, Damián A.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Teijeiro Barjas, Carlos; Touriño, Juan; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Gómez, Andrés; Doallo, Ramón; Mouriño, José C. (Springer, 2009)
      [Abstract] The current trend to multicore architectures underscores the need of parallelism. While new languages and alternatives for supporting more efficiently these systems are proposed, MPI faces this new challenge. ...
    • pRIblast: A highly efficient parallel application for comprehensive lncRNA–RNA interaction prediction 

      Amatria Barral, Iñaki; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Touriño, Juan (Elsevier, 2023-01)
      [Abstract]: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a key role in several biological processes and scientists are constantly trying to come up with new strategies to elucidate their functions. One common approach to characterize ...
    • 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 ...