• closedAccess   A parallel solver for huge dense linear systems  

      Badía, José; Movilla, Jose L.; Climente, Juan I.; Castillo Catalán, María Isabel; Marqués-Andrés, Mercedes; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Planelles, Josep Elsevier (2011-11)
      HDSS (Huge Dense Linear System Solver) is a Fortran Application Programming Interface (API) to facilitate the parallel solution of very large dense systems to scientists and engineers. The API makes use of parallelism to ...
    • openAccess   A pipeline structure for the block QR update in digital signal processing 

      Dolz, Manuel F.; Alventosa, Fran J.; Alonso-Jordá, Pedro Springer (2019-03)
      There exist problems in the field of digital signal processing, such as filtering of acoustic signals that require processing a large amount of data in real time. The beamforming algorithm, for instance, is a process that ...
    • openAccess   A Practical Approach for Picking Items in an Online Shopping Warehouse 

      Nechyporenko, Nataliya; Morales, Antonio; Cervera, Enric; del Pobil, Angel P. MDPI (2021-06-23)
      Commercially viable automated picking in unstructured environments by a robot arm remains a difficult challenge. The problem of robot grasp planning has long been around but the existing solutions tend to be limited when ...
    • closedAccess   A Pragmatic Qualitative Approach for Juxtaposing Shapes 

      Museros, Lledó; Gonzalez Abril, Luis; Velasco, Francisco; Falomir, Zoe (2010)
      This paper presents a qualitative shape description scheme which has been defined in order to have a formal theory to allow the construction of new shapes from a set of given shapes by using a juxtaposition operation. ...
    • openAccess   A Qualitative Acceleration Model Based on Intervals 

      Martínez Martín, Ester; Escrig Monferrer, María Teresa; del Pobil, Angel P. Universidad de Salamanca (2013)
      On the way to autonomous service robots, spatial reasoning plays a main role since it properly deals with problems involving uncertainty. In particular, we are interested in knowing people's pose to avoid collisions. With ...
    • closedAccess   A reconfigurable platform for evaluating the performance of QoS networks 

      Claver, José M.; Agustí Ballester, Pau; Arevalillo Herráez, M.; León Navarro, Germán; Canseco, Manel Elsevier (2010)
      Nowadays, high performance System and Local Area Networks (SAN/LAN) have to serve heterogeneous traffic consisting of information flows with different bandwidth and latency requirements. This makes it necessary to provide ...
    • closedAccess   A Runtime System for Programming Out-of-Core Matrix Algorithms-by-Tiles on Multithreaded Architectures 

      Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio; Igual, Francisco; Marqués-Andrés, Mercedes; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Van de Geijn, Robert A. ACM (2012-08)
      Out-of-core implementations of algorithms for dense matrix computations have traditionally focused on optimal use of memory so as to minimize I/O, often trading programmability for performance. In this article we show how ...
    • openAccess   A Scalable Server-Side Solution for the Real-Time Handling of Road Safety Notifications 

      Pérez-Francisco, Miguel; Boronat, Pablo; Calafate, Carlos; Manzoni, Pietro; Cano, Juan Carlos Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (2024-03-13)
      Accidents are the main hurdles for using bicycles to change our transport habits. After many studies, there is no generally adopted solution. Two (non exclusive) approaches can be applied: one is based on the direct detection ...
    • openAccess   A semantic approach for the requirement-driven discovery of web resources in the Life Sciences 

      Pérez Catalán, María; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael; Sanz, Ismael; Aramburu Cabo, María José Springer-Verlag (2013-03)
      Research in the Life Sciences depends on the integration of large, dis- tributed and heterogeneous web resources (e.g. data sources and web services). The discovery of which of these resources are the most appropriate ...
    • closedAccess   A similarity study of I/O traces via string kernels 

      Torres, Raul; Kunkel, Julian; Dolz, Manuel F.; Ludwig, Thomas Springer (2018-07)
      Understanding I/O for data-intense applications is the foundation for the optimization of these applications. The classification of the applications according to the expressed I/O access pattern eases the analysis. An ...
    • openAccess   A simulator to assess energy saving strategies and policies in HPC workloads 

      Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Mayo, Rafael; Iserte, Sergio; Fernández Fernández, Juan Carlos; Dolz, Manuel F. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2012-07)
      In recent years power consumption of high performance computing (HPC) clusters has become a growing problem due, e.g., to the economic cost of electricity, the emission of car- bon dioxide (with negative impact on the ...
    • closedAccess   A Smart Peri-Urban I2V Architecture for Dynamic Rerouting 

      García Fernández, Luis Amable; Tomás López, Vicente Ramón IEEE (2018-04)
      Traffic congestion increases CO2 emissions, fuel consumption and travel times. These increases are related to the evolution of the growth in urban areas. Urban areas are being transforming into smart cities, that is, they ...
    • openAccess   A Study on How Food Colour May Determine the Categorization of a Dish: Predicting Meal Appeal from Colour Combinations 

      Casales-Garcia, Vicente; Falomir, Zoe; Museros, Lledó; Sanz, Ismael; Gonzalez Abril, Luis World Scientific Publishing (2022-12)
      A person’s preference to select or reject certain meals is influenced by several aspects, including colour. In this paper, we study the relevance of food colour for such preferences. To this end, a set of images of meals ...
    • openAccess   A study on the performance of distributed training of data-driven CFD simulations 

      Iserte, Sergio; González-Barberá, Alejandro; Barreda-Juan, Paloma; Rojek, Krzysztof Sage (2023-05-04)
      Data-driven methods for computer simulations are blooming in many scientific areas. The traditional approach to simulating physical behaviors relies on solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Since calculating these ...
    • openAccess   A Survey on Malleability Solutions for High-Performance Distributed Computing 

      Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Castillo, Maribel; Iserte, Sergio; Martín Álvarez, Iker; Mayo, Rafael MDPI (2022-05-22)
      Maintaining a high rate of productivity, in terms of completed jobs per unit of time, in High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities is a cornerstone in the next generation of exascale supercomputers. Process malleability ...
    • openAccess   Accelerating multi-channel filtering of audio signal on ARM processors 

      BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Alventosa, Juan J.; Alonso-Jordá, Pedro; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Vidal, Antonio M. Springer Verlag (2016-03)
    • closedAccess   Accelerating the Lyapack library using GPUs 

      Dufrechou, Ernesto; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón Gómez, Alfredo Springer (2013)
      Lyapack is a package for the solution of large-scale sparse problems arising in control theory. The package has a modular design, and is implemented as a Matlab toolbox, which renders it easy to utilize, modify and extend ...
    • openAccess   Accelerating the SRP-PHAT algorithm on multi- and many-core platforms using OpenCL 

      Badía, José; BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Cobos, Maximo; Igual, Francisco; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer (2019-03)
      The Steered Response Power with Phase Transform (SRP-PHAT) algorithm is a well-known method for sound source localization due to its robust performance in noisy and reverberant environments. This algorithm is used in a ...
    • closedAccess   Accelerating the task/data-parallel version of ILUPACK’s BiCG in multi-CPU/GPU configurations 

      Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Dufrechou, Ernesto; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Elsevier (2019)
      ILUPACK is a valuable tool for the solution of sparse linear systems via iterative Krylov subspace-based methods. Its relevance for the solution of real problems has motivated several efforts to enhance its performance on ...
    • closedAccess   Acceleration of PageRank with Customized Precision Based on Mantissa Segmentation 

      Grützmacher, Thomas; Cojean, Terry; Flegar, Goran; Anzt, Hartwig; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2020-03)
      We describe the application of a communication-reduction technique for the PageRank algorithm that dynamically adapts the precision of the data access to the numerical requirements of the algorithm as the iteration converges. ...