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    • A novel asynchronous software cache implementation for the Cell-BE processor 

      Balart, J; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Sura, Z; Chen, T; Zhang, T; O'Brien, Kevin; O'Brien, Kathryn (2008-10)
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      This paper describes the implementation of a runtime library for asynchronous communication in the Cell BE processor. The runtime library implementation provides with several services that allow the compiler to generate ...
    • A proposal for error handling in OpenMP 

      Duran González, Alejandro; Ferrer, Roger; Costa Prats, Juan José; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (2008)
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      OpenMP has been focused in performance applied to numerical applications, but when we try to move this focus to other kind of applications, like Web servers, we detect one important lack. In these applications, performance ...
    • Abisko: Deep codesign of an architecture for spiking neural networks using novel neuromorphic materials 

      Vetter, Jeffrey; Date, Prasanna; Fahim, Farah; Kulkarni, Shruti R.; Maksymovych, Petro; Talin, Alec; González Tallada, Marc; Vanna Iampikul, Pruek; Young, Aaron Reed; Brooks, David (SAGE publishing, 2023-07)
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      The Abisko project aims to develop an energy-efficient spiking neural network (SNN) computing architecture and software system capable of autonomous learning and operation. The SNN architecture explores novel neuromorphic ...
    • Achieving high memory performance from heterogeneous architectures with the SARC programming model 

      Ferrer, Roger; Beltran Querol, Vicenç; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (ACM, 2009)
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      Current heterogeneous multicore architectures, including the Cell/B.E., GPUs, and future developments, like Larrabee, require enormous programming efforts to efficiently run current parallel applications, achieving high ...
    • Applying interposition techniques for performance analysis of OPENMP parallel applications 

      González Tallada, Marc; Serra, Albert; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Oliver Segura, José; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José; Navarro, Nacho (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2000)
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      Tuning parallel applications requires the use of effective tools for detecting performance bottlenecks. Along a parallel program execution, many individual situations of performance degradation may arise. We believe that ...
    • Automatic multilevel parallelization using OpenMP 

      Jin, H; Jost, G; Yan, J; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier (2004-06)
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      In this paper we describe the extension of the CAPO parallelization support tool to support multilevel parallelism based on OpenMP directives. CAPO generates OpenMP directives with extensions supported by the NanosCompiler ...
    • Automatic pre-fetch and modulo scheduling transformations for the cell BE architecture 

      Vujic, N; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2008-01)
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      Ease of programming is one of the main impediments for the broad acceptance of multi-core systems with no hardware support for transparent data transfer between local and global memories. Software cache is a robust approach ...
    • Coarse grain parallelization of deep neural networks 

      González Tallada, Marc (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Deep neural networks (DNN) have recently achieved extraordinary results in domains like computer vision and speech recognition. An essential element for this success has been the introduction of high performance computing ...
    • Coherence protocol for transparent management of scratchpad memories in shared memory manycore architectures 

      Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Vilanova, Lluís; Moretó Planas, Miquel; Casas, Marc; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Navarro, Nacho; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015)
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      The increasing number of cores in manycore architectures causes important power and scalability problems in the memory subsystem. One solution is to introduce scratchpad memories alongside the cache hierarchy, forming a ...
    • Complex pipelined executions in OpenMP parallel applications 

      González Tallada, Marc; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2001)
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      This paper proposes a set of extensions to the OpenMP programming model to express complex pipelined computations. This is accomplished by defining, in the form of directives, precedence relations among the tasks originated ...
    • Compute units in OpenMP: extensions for heterogeneous parallel programming 

      González Tallada, Marc; Morancho Llena, Enrique (John Wiley & sons, 2024-01-10)
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      This article evaluates the current support for heterogeneous OpenMP 5.2 applications regarding the simultaneous activation of host and device computing units (e.g., CPUs, GPUs, or FPGAs). The article identifies limitations ...
    • Dual-level parallelism exploitation with OpenMP in coastal ocean circulation modeling 

      González Tallada, Marc; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José; Luong, P V (2002-05)
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      Two alternative dual-level parallel implementations of the Multiblock Grid Princeton Ocean Model (MGPOM) are compared in this paper. The first one combines the use of two programming paradigms: message passing with the ...
    • Employing nested OpenMP for the parallelization of multi-zone computational fluid dynamics applications 

      Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Jost, G (2006-05)
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      In this paper we describe the parallelization of the multi-zone code versions of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks employing multi-level OpenMP parallelism. For our study, we use the NanosCompiler that supports nesting of OpenMP ...
    • Evaluation of memory performance on the cell BE with the SARC programming model 

      Ferrer, Roger; González Tallada, Marc; Silla, Federico; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2008)
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      With the advent of multicore architectures, especially with the heterogeneous ones, both computational and memory top performance are difficult to obtain using traditional programming models. Usually, programmers have to ...
    • Experiences parallelizing a web server with OpenMP 

      Balart Tarzan, Jairo; Duran González, Alejandro; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (2008)
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      Multi-threaded web servers are typically parallelized by hand using the pthreads library. OpenMP has rarely been used to parallelize such kind of applications, although we foresee that it can be a great tool for network ...
    • Exploiting pipelined executions in OpenMP 

      González Tallada, Marc; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2003)
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      We propose a set of extensions to the OpenMP programming model to express point-to-point synchronisation schemes. This is accomplished by defining, in the form of directives, precedence relations among the tasks that are ...
    • Extending OpenMP to survive the heterogeneous multi-core era 

      Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Bellens, Pieter; Cabrera, Daniel; Duran González, Alejandro; Ferrer, Roger; González Tallada, Marc; Igual Peña, Francisco D.; Jiménez González, Daniel; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José; Martinell Andreu, Luis; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Mayo Gual, Rafael; Pérez Cáncer, Josep Maria; Planas, Judit; Quintana Ortí, Enrique Salvador (2010-10)
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    • Hardware-software coherence protocol for the coexistence of caches and local memories 

      Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Vilanova, Lluís; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Navarro, Nacho; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2015-01-01)
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      Cache coherence protocols limit the scalability of multicore and manycore architectures and are responsible for an important amount of the power consumed in the chip. A good way to alleviate these problems is to introduce ...
    • Heterogeneous programming using OpenMP and CUDA/HIP for hybrid CPU-GPU scientific applications 

      González Tallada, Marc; Morancho Llena, Enrique (SAGE publishing, 2023-01-01)
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      Hybrid computer systems combine compute units (CUs) of different nature like CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs. Simultaneously exploiting the computing power of these CUs requires a careful decomposition of the applications into balanced ...
    • Hybrid access-specific software cache techniques for the cell BE architecture 

      O’Brien, Kathryn; O'Brien, Kevin; González Tallada, Marc; Vujic, Nikola; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Eichenberger, Alexandre E.; Chen, Tong; Sura, Zehra; Zhang, Tao (Association for Computing Machinery, 2008)
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      Ease of programming is one of the main impediments for the broad acceptance of multi-core systems with no hardware support for transparent data transfer between local and global memories. Software cache is a robust approach ...