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    • A case for code-representative microbenchmarks 

      Bulla, Calvin; Moreto Planas, Miquel (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2017-05-04)
      Conference report
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      Microbenchmarks are fundamental in the design of a microarchitecture. They allow rapid evaluation of the system, while incurring little exploration overhead. One key design aspect is the thermal design point (TDP), the ...
    • A FM-index transformation to enable large k-steps 

      Langarita, Rubén; Armejach Sanosa, Adrià; Moreto Planas, Miquel (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2019-05-07)
      Conference report
      Open Access
    • A hardware evaluation of cache partitioning to improve utilization and energy-efficiency while preserving responsiveness 

      Cook, Henry; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Bird, Sarah L.; Dao, Khanh; Patterson, David; Asanovic, Krste (ACM, 2013)
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      Computing workloads often contain a mix of interactive, latency-sensitive foreground applications and recurring background computations. To guarantee responsiveness, interactive and batch applications are often run on ...
    • A hardware/software co-design of K-mer counting using a CAPI-enabled FPGA 

      Haghi, Abbas; Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Polo Bardés, Jorda; Diamantopoulos, Dionysios; Hagleitner, Christoph; Moreto Planas, Miquel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
      Conference report
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      Advances in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have caused the proliferation of genomic applications to detect DNA mutations and guide personalized medicine. These applications have an enormous computational ...
    • A security model for randomization-based protected caches 

      Ribes González, Jordi; Farràs Ventura, Oriol; Hernández Luz, Carles; Kostalabros, Vatistas; Moreto Planas, Miquel (2022)
      Article
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      Cache side-channel attacks allow adversaries to learn sensitive information about co-running processes by using only access latency measures and cache contention. This vulnerability has been shown to lead to several ...
    • A vulnerability factor for ECC-protected memory 

      Jaulmes, Luc; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Casas, Marc (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
      Conference report
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      Fault injection studies and vulnerability analyses have been used to estimate the reliability of data structures in memory. We survey these metrics and look at their adequacy to describe the data stored in ECC-protected ...
    • Accelerating edit-distance sequence alignment on GPU using the wavefront algorithm 

      Aguado Puig, Quim; Marco-Sola, Santiago; Moure López, Juan Carlos; Castells Rufas, David; Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Espinosa Morales, Antonio; Moreto Planas, Miquel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-06-10)
      Article
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      Sequence alignment remains a fundamental problem with practical applications ranging from pattern recognition to computational biology. Traditional algorithms based on dynamic programming are hard to parallelize, require ...
    • Accurate and efficient constrained molecular dynamics of polymers using Newton's method and special purpose code 

      López Villellas, Lorién; Kjelgaard Mikkelsen, Carl Christian; Galano Frutos, Juan José; Marco Sola, Santiago; Alastruey Benedé, Jesús; Ibáñez Marín, Pablo Enrique; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Sancho Sanz, Javier; García Risueño, Pablo (2023-07)
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      In molecular dynamics simulations we can often increase the time step by imposing constraints on bond lengths and bond angles. This allows us to extend the length of the time interval and therefore the range of physical ...
    • Adapting cache partitioning algorithms to pseudo-LRU replacement policies 

      Kedzierski, Kamil; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Cazorla, Francisco; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
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      Recent studies have shown that cache partitioning is an efficient technique to improve throughput, fairness and Quality of Service (QoS) in CMP processors. The cache partitioning algorithms proposed so far assume Least ...
    • Adaptive and application dependent runtime guided hardware prefetcher reconfiguration on the IBM Power7 

      Prat Robles, David; Ortega Carrasco, Cristobal; Casas Guix, Marc; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Valero Cortés, Mateo (2015)
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    • Adaptive power shifting for power-constrained heterogeneous systems 

      Ortega Carrasco, Cristobal; Alvarez Martí, Lluc; Buyuktosunoglu, Alper; Bertran Monfort, Ramon; Rosedahl, Todd Jon; Bose, Pradip; Moreto Planas, Miquel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-03-01)
      Article
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      The number and heterogeneity of compute devices, even within a single compute node, has been steadily on the rise. Since all systems must operate under a power cap, the number of discrete devices that can run simultaneously ...
    • An academic RISC-V silicon implementation based on open-source components 

      Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Bulla, Calvin; Cabo Pitarch, Guillem; Cazorla Almeida, Francisco Javier; Cristal Kestelman, Adrián; Doblas Font, Max; Figueras Bagué, Roger; González Trejo, Alberto; Hernández Luz, Carles; Hernández Calderón, César Alejandro; Jiménez Arador, Víctor; Kosmidis, Leonidas; Kostalampros, Ioannis-Vatistas; Langarita Benítez, Rubén; Leyva Santes, Neiel; López Paradís, Guillem; Marimon Illana, Joan; Martínez Martínez, Ricardo; Mendoza Escobar, Jonnatan; Moll Echeto, Francisco de Borja; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Pavón Rivera, Julián; Ramírez Lazo, Cristóbal; Ramírez Salinas, Marco Antonio; Rojas Morales, Carlos; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio; Ruiz, Abraham Josafat; Sonmez, Nehir; Soria Pardos, Víctor; Teres Teres, Lluis; Unsal, Osman Sabri; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Vargas Valdivieso, Iván; Villa Vargas, Luis Alfonso (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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      The design presented in this paper, called preDRAC, is a RISC-V general purpose processor capable of booting Linux jointly developed by BSC, CIC-IPN, IMB-CNM (CSIC), and UPC. The preDRAC processor is the first RISC-V ...
    • An FPGA accelerator of the wavefront algorithm for genomics pairwise alignment 

      Haghi, Abbas; Marco-Sola, Santiago; Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Diamantopoulos, Dionysios; Hagleitner, Christoph; Moreto Planas, Miquel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
      Conference report
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      In the last years, advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled the proliferation of genomic applications that guide personalized medicine. These applications have an enormous computational cost due to ...
    • An optimized predication execution for SIMD extensions 

      Barredo Ferreira, Adrián; Cebrián González, Juan Manuel; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Casas Guix, Marc; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
      Conference lecture
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      Vector processing is a widely used technique to improve performance and energy efficiency in modern processors. Most of them rely on predication to support divergence control. However, performance and energy consumption ...
    • AnchorWave: Sensitive alignment of genomes with high sequence diversity, extensive structural polymorphism, and whole-genome duplication 

      Song, Baoxing; Marco-Sola, Santiago; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Johnson, Lynn; Buckler, Edward S.; Stitzer, Michelle C. (2022-01-04)
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      Millions of species are currently being sequenced, and their genomes are being compared. Many of them have more complex genomes than model systems and raise novel challenges for genome alignment. Widely used local alignment ...
    • Architectural support for task dependence management with flexible software scheduling 

      Castillo, Emilio; Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Casas, Marc; Vallejo, Enrique; Bosque, Jose L.; Beivide Palacio, Ramon; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
      Conference report
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      The growing complexity of multi-core architectures has motivated a wide range of software mechanisms to improve the orchestration of parallel executions. Task parallelism has become a very attractive approach thanks to its ...
    • Asynchronous and exact forward recovery for detected errors in iterative solvers 

      Jaulmes, Luc; Casas, Marc; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José; Valero Cortés, Mateo (2018-03-19)
      Article
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      Current trends and projections show that faults in computer systems become increasingly common. Such errors may be detected, and possibly corrected transparently, e.g. by Error Correcting Codes (ECC). For a program to be ...
    • ATM: approximate task memoization in the runtime system 

      Brumar, Iulian; Casas, Marc; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Sohi, Gurindar S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
      Conference report
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      Redundant computations appear during the execution of real programs. Multiple factors contribute to these unnecessary computations, such as repetitive inputs and patterns, calling functions with the same parameters or bad ...
    • BST: A BookSim-based toolset to simulate NoCs with single- and multi-hop bypass 

      Pérez Gallardo, Iván; Vallejo Gutiérrez, Enrique; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Beivide Palacio, Julio Ramon (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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      Network-on-Chips are a critical part of modern multiprocessors and their relevance will grow with the number of cores. The development of future NoC designs relies on detailed simulation models that accurately estimate ...
    • CATA: Criticality aware task acceleration for multicore processors 

      Castillo, Emilio; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Casas, Marc; Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Vallejo, Enrique; Chronaki, Kallia; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Bosque Orero, José Luis; Beivide Palacio, Julio Ramón; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
      Conference report
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      Managing criticality in task-based programming models opens a wide range of performance and power optimization opportunities in future manycore systems. Criticality aware task schedulers can benefit from these opportunities ...