Recent Submissions

  • The case for data centre hyperloops 

    López Paradís, Guillem; Hair, Isaac M.; Kannan, Sid; Rabbat, Roman; Murray, Parker; Lopes, Alex; Zahedi, Rory; Zuo, Winston; Balkind, Jonathan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Data movement is a hot-button topic today, with workloads like machine learning (ML) training, graph processing, and data analytics consuming datasets as large as 30PB. Such a dataset would take almost a week to transfer ...
  • Hypervisor extension for a RISC-V processor 

    Gauchola Vilardell, Jaume; Costa Prats, Juan José; Morancho Llena, Enrique; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Carril Gil, Xavier; Doblas Font, Max; Otero Calviño, Beatriz; Pajuelo González, Manuel Alejandro; Rodríguez Luna, Eva; Salamero Sanz, Javier; Verdú Mulà, Javier (2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    This paper describes our experience implementing a Hypervisor extension for a 64-bit RISC-V processor. We describe the design process and the main required parts with a brief explanation of each one.
  • Practically tackling memory bottlenecks of graph-processing workloads 

    Jamet, Alexandre Valentin; Vavouliotis, Georgios; Jiménez, Daniel A.; Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Casas, Marc (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Graph-processing workloads have become widespread due to their relevance on a wide range of application domains such as network analysis, path- planning, bioinformatics, and machine learning. Graph-processing workloads ...
  • Enabling high-level parallel programming on multi-FPGA clusters 

    Haro Ruiz, Juan Miguel de; Álvarez Martínez, Carlos; Jiménez González, Daniel; Martorell Bofill, Xavier (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024)
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    Open Access
    Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are still relatively new in the High Performance Computing (HPC) field. Hence, they still lack a mature ecosystem that allows non-FPGA experts to scale an application with many devices ...
  • Extending the OCATA digital twin for optical connections based on digital subcarrier multiplexing 

    Devigili, Mariano; Sequeira, Diogo Gonçalo; Ruiz Ramírez, Marc; Costa, Nelson; Castro, Carlos; Napoli, Antonio; Pedro, João; Velasco Esteban, Luis Domingo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Time-domain digital twin models for single carrier and DSCM signals are developed that propagate features to estimate the impact of filter penalties on the BER. Results show remarkable accuracy, which is used for lightpath ...
  • NeRFLight: Fast and Light Neural Radiance Fields using a shared feature grid 

    Rivas-Manzaneque, Fernando; Sierra Acosta, Jorge; Peñate Sánchez, Adrián; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc; Ribeiro Seijas, Angela (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    While original Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive results in modeling the appearance of a scene with compact MLP architectures, they are not able to achieve real-time rendering. This has been recently ...
  • Harnessing the computing continuum across personalized healthcare, maintenance and inspection, and Farming 4.0 

    Baghdadi, Fatemeh; Cirillo, Davide; Lezzi, Daniele; Lordan Gomis, Francesc-Josep; Vázquez Novoa, Fernando; Lomurno, Eugenio; Archetti, Alberto; Ardagna, Danilo; Matteucci, Matteo (SciTePress, 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The AI-SPRINT project, launched in 2021 and funded by the European Commission, focuses on the development and implementation of AI applications across the computing continuum. This continuum ensures the coherent integration ...
  • ALPI: Enhancing portability and interoperability of task-aware libraries 

    Sala Penadés, Kevin; Álvarez Robert, David; Peñacoba Veigas, Raúl; Arias Mallo, Rodrigo; Navarro Muñoz, Antoni; Roca Nonell, Aleix; Beltran Querol, Vicenç (2024)
    Conference report
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    Task-based programming models are a promising approach to exploiting complex distributed and heterogeneous systems. However, integrating different communication, offloading, and storage APIs within tasks poses performance ...
  • Makinote: An FPGA-based HW/SW platform for pre-silicon emulation of RISC-V designs 

    Perdomo Hourné, Elias Augusto; Kropotov, Alexander; Cano Ladino, Francelly Katherine; Ali Shah, Syed Zafar; Cervero García, Teresa; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Salami, Behzad (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Emulating chip functionality before silicon production is crucial, especially with the increasing prevalence of RISC-V-based designs. FPGAs are promising candidates for such purposes due to their high-speed and reconfigurable ...
  • eProcessor: European, extendable, energy-efficient, extreme-scale, extensible, processor ecosystem 

    Alvarez Martí, Lluc; Ruíz Ramírez, Abraham Josafat; Bigas Soldevilla, Arnau; Kuroedov, Pavel; González Trejo, Alberto; Mahale, Hamsika; Bustamante Peralta, Noe; Aguilera Dangla, Albert; Minervini Minervini, Francesco; Salamero Sanz, Javier; Palomar Pérez, Óscar (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The eProcessor project aims at creating a RISC-V full stack ecosystem. The eProcessor architecture combines a high-performance out-of-order core with energy-efficient accelerators for vector processing and artificial ...
  • Efficient diverse redundant DNNs for autonomous driving 

    Caro Roca, Martí; Fornt Mas, Jordi; Abella Ferrer, Jaume (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Automotive applications with safety requirements must adhere to specific regulations such as ISO 26262, which imposes the use of diverse redundancy for the highest integrity levels (i.e., ASIL D). While this has been often ...
  • Software development vehicles to enable extended and early co-design: a RISC-V and HPC case of study 

    Mantovani, Filippo; Vizcaíno Serrano, Pablo; Banchelli Gracia, Fabio; Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Ferrer Ibañez, Roger; Ieronymakis, Georgios; Dimou, Nikolaus; Papaefstathiou, Vassilis; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (Springer, 2023)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Prototyping HPC systems with low-to-mid technology readiness level (TRL) systems is critical for providing feedback to hardware designers, the system software team (e.g., compiler developers), and early adopters from the ...

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