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    • A closer look at referring expressions for video object segmentation 

      Bellver Bueno, Míriam; Ventura Royo, Carles; Silberer, Carina; Kazakos, Ioannis; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Giró Nieto, Xavier (2023-01)
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      The task of Language-guided Video Object Segmentation (LVOS) aims at generating binary masks for an object referred by a linguistic expression. When this expression unambiguously describes an object in the scene, it is ...
    • A hybrid web server architecture for secure e-business web applications 

      Beltran Querol, Vicenç; Carrera Pérez, David; Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2005-09)
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      Nowadays the success of many e-commerce applications, such as on-line banking, depends on their reliability, robustness and security. Designing a web server architecture that keeps these properties under high loads is a ...
    • A methodology for Spark parameter tuning 

      Gounaris, Anastasios; Torres Viñals, Jordi (2017-05-19)
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      Spark has been established as an attractive platform for big data analysis, since it manages to hide most of the complexities related to parallelism, fault tolerance and cluster setting from developers. However, this comes ...
    • A Survey on Performance Management for Internet Applications 

      Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2010-01-01)
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      Internet applications have become indispensable for many business and personal processes, turning the performance of these applications into a key issue. For this reason, recent research has comprehensively explored ...
    • Accelerating software memory compression on the Cell/B.E. 

      Beltran Querol, Vicenç; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2008)
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      The idea of transparently compressing and decompressing the content of main memory to virtually enlarge their capacity has been previously proposed and studied in the literature. The rationale behind this idea lies in the ...
    • Adaptive distributed mechanism againts flooding network attacks based on machine learning 

      Berral García, Josep Lluís; Poggi Mastrokalo, Nicolas; Alonso López, Javier; Gavaldà Mestre, Ricard; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Parashar, Manish (ACM Press, NY, 2008)
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      Adaptive techniques based on machine learning and data mining are gaining relevance in self-management and self- defense for networks and distributed systems. In this paper, we focus on early detection and stopping of ...
    • Adaptive MapReduce scheduling in shared environments 

      Polo Bardés, Jordà; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Carrera Pérez, David; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Steinder, Malgorzata (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      In this paper we present a MapReduce task scheduler for shared environments in which MapReduce is executed along with other resource-consuming workloads, such as transactional applications. All workloads may potentially ...
    • Adaptive on-line software aging prediction based on machine learning 

      Alonso López, Javier; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Berral García, Josep Lluís; Gavaldà Mestre, Ricard (IEEE Computer Society Publications, 2010)
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      The growing complexity of software systems is resulting in an increasing number of software faults. According to the literature, software faults are becoming one of the main sources of unplanned system outages, and have ...
    • Adaptive scheduling on power-aware managed data-centers using machine learning 

      Berral García, Josep Lluís; Gavaldà Mestre, Ricard; Torres Viñals, Jordi (2011)
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      Energy-related costs have become one of the major economic factors in IT data-centers, and companies and the research community are currently working on new efficient power-aware resource management strategies, also known ...
    • Adaptive scheduling on power-aware managed data-centers using machine learning 

      Berral García, Josep Lluís; Gavaldà Mestre, Ricard; Torres Viñals, Jordi (IEEE Computer Society Publications, 2011)
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      Energy-related costs have become one of the major economic factors in IT data-centers, and companies and the research community are currently working on new efficient power-aware resource management strategies, also known ...
    • Aeneas: A tool to enable applications to effectively use non-relational databases 

      Cugnasco, Cesare; Hernández, Roger; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (Elsevier, 2013)
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      Non-relational databases arise as a solution to solve the scalability problems of relational databases when dealing with big data applications. However, they are highly configurable prone to user decisions that can heavily ...
    • Align and distribute-based linear loop transformations 

      Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Springer, 1993)
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      In this paper we generalize the framework of linear loop transformations in the sense that loop alignment is considered as a new component in the transformation process. The aim is to match the structure of loop nests with ...
    • ALOJA: a systematic study of Hadoop deployment variables to enable automated characterization of cost-effectiveness 

      Poggi Mastrokalo, Nicolas; Carrera Pérez, David; Call, Aaron; Mendoza, Sergio; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Gagliardi, Fabrizio; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José; Reinauer, Rob; Vujic, Nikola; Green, Daron; Blakeley, Jose (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      This article presents the ALOJA project, an initiative to produce mechanisms for an automated characterization of cost-effectiveness of Hadoop deployments and reports its initial results. ALOJA is the latest phase of a ...
    • An instrumentation tool for threaded Java application servers 

      Carrera Pérez, David; Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (Universitat de Lleida, 2002)
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      Rapid development of e-business services has extended the use of application servers on companies. The Java platform has an important presence on this sector because of its portability and development facilities. Java ...
    • An integer linear programming representation for data-center power-aware management 

      Berral García, Josep Lluís; Gavaldà Mestre, Ricard; Torres Viñals, Jordi (2010-11-12)
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      This work exposes how to represent a grid data-center based scheduling problem, taking the advantages of the virtualization and consolidation techniques, as a linear integer programming problem including all three mentioned ...
    • Automatic query driven data modelling in cassandra 

      Hernández, Roger; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (Elsevier, 2015)
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      Non-relational databases have recently been the preferred choice when it comes to dealing with BigData challenges, but their performance is very sensitive to the chosen data organisations. We have seen differences of over ...
    • Automatic query driven data modelling in Cassandra 

      Hernandez, Roger; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2015-05-05)
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      Non-relational databases have recently been the preferred choice when it comes to dealing with Big Data challenges, but their performance is very sensitive to the chosen data organisations. We have seen differences of ...
    • BIGNASim: a NoSQL database structure and analysis portal for nucleic acids simulation data 

      Hospital, Adam; Andrio, Pau; Cugnasco, Cesare; Codo, Laia; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Dans, Pablo D.; Battistini, Federica; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Goñi, Ramon; Orozco, Modesto; Gelpí, Josep Lluís (2016-01-04)
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      Molecular dynamics simulation (MD) is, just behind genomics, the bioinformatics tool that generates the largest amounts of data, and that is using the largest amount of CPU time in supercomputing centres. MD trajectories ...
    • BSC contributions in energy-aware resource management for large scale distributed systems 

      Valero Cortés, Mateo; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Carrera Pérez, David; Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Beltran Querol, Vicenç; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (2010)
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      This paper introduces the work being carried out at Barcelona Supercomputing Center in the area of Green Computing. We have been working in resource management for a long time and recently we included the energy parameter ...
    • Budget-aware semi-supervised semantic and instance segmentation 

      Bellver Bueno, Míriam; Salvador Aguilera, Amaia; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Giró Nieto, Xavier (2019)
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      Methods that move towards less supervised scenarios are key for image segmentation, as dense labels demand significant human intervention. Generally, the annotation burden is mitigated by labeling datasets with weaker forms ...