In smart spaces such as smart homes, computation is embedded everywhere: in toys, appliances, or the home’s infrastructure. Most of these devices provide a pool of available resources which the user can take advantage, ...

MPI is the de facto communication standard library for parallel applications in distributed memory architectures. Collective operations performance is critical in HPC applications as they can become the bottleneck of their ...

Contrary to the continuing growth of the informatics industry in Europe the number of computer science experts (students, graduates, teachers, etc.) is declining. This decline is producing some negative consequences in ...

Aquest és un projecte dut a terme per estudiants i professors de la FIB, en col•laboració amb alguns estudiants de secundària i l’empresa tecnològica DEXMA. L’objectiu és sensibilitzar a la comunitat de l’estalvi energètic ...

Technological advances are improving living conditions. Oddly, there continues to be a decrease in the number of ICT students. The decline in the number of female students is particularly noteworthy. One of the main reasons ...

Creating a highly parallelizable code is a challenge and development for distributed memory machines (DMMs) can be very different form developing a serial code in term of algorithms and structure. For this reason, many ...

Ubiquitous environment's research has evolved considerably over the last years. The wide range of mobile devices, their high diversity and mobility have raised a variety of challenges being resource management a predominant, ...

Future architectures and computer systems will be heterogeneous multi-core models, which will improve their performance, resource utilization and energy consumption. Differences between cores mean different binary formats ...