2003 HPC Group Publications

PhD Thesis

• Daniel Ortega. Memory Instruction Bypassing. PhD thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), July 2003. Advisor Mateo Valero and Eduard Ayguadé.

• Marc González. Explotació de Paral·lelisme Multinivell en Sistemes Multirpocessador i Memòria Compartida . PhD thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), January 2003. Advisor Eduard Ayguadé and Xavier Martorell.

• Pedro Marcuello. Speculative Multithreaded Processors. PhD thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), July 2003. Advisor Antonio González.

• Sergi Girona. Performance Prediction and Evaluation Tools. PhD thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), July 2003. Advisor Jesús Labarta.

• Teresa Monreal. Técnicas Hardware para Optimizar el Uso de los Registros en Procesadores Superescalares. PhD thesis, Universidad de Zaragoza, June 2003. Advisor Victor Viñals, Mateo Valero and Antonio González.

Journals

• Adrian Cristal, José F. Martínez, Josep Llosa and Mateo Valero. A Case for Resource-conscious Out-of-order Processors. Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 2, October 2003.

• Eduard Ayguadé. Special Issue on OpenMP Guest Editor's Introduction. International Journal of Parallel Programming, pp. 181-183, vol. 31, no. 3, June 2003.

• Eduard Ayguadé and Barbara Chapman. Guest Editor's Foreword Special Issue on OpenMP. Scientific Programming, pp. 79-80, vol. 11, no. 2, June 2003.

• Henry Jin, Gabriele Jost, Jerry Yan, Eduard Ayguadé, Marc González and Xavier Martorell. Automatic Multilevel Parallelization Using OpenMP. Scientific Programming, pp. 177-190, vol. 11, no. 2, June 2003.

• Jaume Abella, Ramon Canal and Antonio González. Power- and Complexity-Aware Issue Queue Designs. IEEE Micro, pp. 50-58, vol. 23, no. 5, September 2003. Special Issue on Power & Complexity Aware Design.

• Marta Jiménez, José M. Llabería and Agustín Fernández. A Cost-Effective Implementation of Multilevel Tiling. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 1006-1020, vol. 14, no. 10, October 2003.

• Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Ernest Artiaga, Eduard Ayguadé and Jesús Labarta. Scaling Non-regular Shared-memory Codes by Reusing Custom Loop Schedules. Scientific Programming, pp. 143-159, vol. 11, no. 2, June 2003.

• Pau Bofill. Underdetermined blind separation of delayed sound sources in the frequency domain. Neurocomputing, pp. 627-641, vol. 55, October 2003.

• Pau Bofill, Roger Guimerà and Carme Torras. Comparison of simulated annealing and mean field annealing as applied to the generation of block designs. Neural Networks, pp. 1421-1428, vol. 16, December 2003.

• Rosa M. Badia, Jesús Labarta, Raül Sirvent, Josep M. Pérez, José M. Cela and Rogeli Grima. Programming Grid Applications with GRID Superscalar. Journal of Grid Computing, pp. 151-170, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2003.

• Ruben Pinilla and Marisa Gil. JVM: Platform Independent vs. Performance Dependent. ACM Operating Systems Review, pp. 44-56, vol. 37, no. 2, April 2003.

• Ruben Pinilla and Marisa Gil. ULT: A Java threads model for platform independent execution. ACM Operating Systems Review, pp. 48-62, vol. 37, no. 04, October 2003.

• Toni Cortés and Jesús Labarta. Taking advantage of heterogeneity in disk arrays. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, pp. 448-464, vol. 63, no. 4, April 2003.

Conference Proceedings

• Alex Aletà, Josep M. Codina, Antonio González and David Kaeli. Instruction Replication for Clustered Microarchitectures. In 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 36), pp. - , 2003.

• Adrian Cristal, José F. Martínez, Josep Llosa and Mateo Valero. Optimal Use of Registers in Aggressive Superscalar Processors. In XIV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 553-558, September 2003.

• Adrian Cristal, Daniel Ortega, Josep Llosa and Mateo Valero. Kilo-instruction Processors. In 5th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-V), pp. 10-25, October 2003.

• Ayose Falcón, Oliverio J. Santana, Alex Ramírez and Mateo Valero. Tolerating branch predictor latency on SMT. In 5th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-V), pp. 86-98, October 2003.

• Carles Aliagas, Carlos Molina, Montse Garcia Famoso, Antonio González and Jordi Tubella. Value Compression to Reduce Power in Data Caches. In European Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar 2003), pp. - , August 2003.

• George Almasi, Eduard Ayguadé, Calin Cascaval, Jose Castaños, Jesús Labarta, Francisco Martinez, Xavier Martorell and Jose Moreira. Evaluation of OpenMP for the Cyclops Multithreaded Architecture. In International Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools (WOMPAT2003), pp. 147-159, June 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2716.

• George Almasi, Ralph Bellofatto, Jose R. Brunheroto, Calin Cascaval, Jose Castaños, Luis Ceze, Paul Crumley, Charles Erway, Joseph Gagliano, Derek Lieber, Xavier Martorell, Jose Moreira, Alda Sanomiya and Karin Strauss. An Overview of the BlueGene/L System Software Organization. In European Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar 2003), pp. 543-555, August 2003.

• George Almasi, Charles Archer, Jose Castaños, Manish Gupta, Xavier Martorell, Jose Moreira, William Gropp, Silvius Rus and Brian Toonen. MPI on BlueGene/L: Designing an Efficient General Purpose Messaging Solution for a Large Cellular System. In 10th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, pp. 352-361, January 2003.

• George Almasi, Leonardo Bachega, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Manish Gupta, Derek Lieber, Xavier Martorell and Jose Moreira. Enabling Dual-Core Mode in BlueGene/L: Challenges and Solutions. In The 15th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2003), pp. - , November 2003.

• M.Angels Moncusi, Alex Arenas and Jesús Labarta. Energy Aware EDF Scheduling in Distributed Hard Real Time Systems. In Real-Time Systems Symposium, Work-in-Progress Session, pp. 103-106, December 2003.

• Beatriz Otero, José M. Cela and Enric Fontdecaba. Different Surface Models for Progressive Lenses and their Effect in Parallelization. In IASTED International Conference, pp. 443-448, September 2003.

• Beatriz Otero, José M. Cela and Enric Fontdecaba. Different Surface Models for Progressive Lenses and their Effect in Parallelization. In IASTED International Conference, pp. 443-448, September 2003.

• Carmelo Acosta, Sriram Vajapeyam, Alex Ramírez and Mateo Valero. CDE: A compiler-driven, Dependence-centric, Eager-executing Architecture for the billion transistor era. In Workshop on complexity effective design (WCED'03), pp. - , July 2003.

• Carmelo Acosta, Marco Galluzzi, Sriram Vajapeyam, Alex Ramírez and Mateo Valero. Dealing with Billions of Transistors. In XIV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 547-552, September 2003.

• Carlos Álvarez, Mateo Valero, Jesús Corbal, Esther Salamí and Jose A. Fonollosa. A Fast, Low-Power Floating Point Unit for Multimedia. In 2nd Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP-2) (in conjuction with MICRO 36), pp. 17-24, January 2003.

• Carlos Molina, Carles Aliagas, Montse Garcia Famoso, Antonio González and Jordi Tubella. Non Redundant Data Cache. In International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED-03), pp. 274-278, August 2003.

• Carlos Pineda, Hugo C. Coyote and Jordi Garcia. User-Kernel Reactive Threads for Linux. In The 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003), pp. - , January 2003.

• David Carrera, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé and Jesús Labarta. Complete Instrumentation Requirements for Performance Analysis of Web Based Technologies. In 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2003), pp. 166-175, March 2003.

• Daniel Jiménez, Juan J. Navarro and Josep-L. Larriba-Pey. CC-Radix: A Cache Conscious Sorting Based on Radix sort. In 11th Euromicro Conference on Parallel Distributed and Network based Processing, pp. - , 2003.

• Daniel Ortega, Mateo Valero and Eduard Ayguadé. Dynamic Memory Instruction Bypassing. In 17th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, pp. - , 2003.

• Eduard Ayguadé, Bob Blainey, Alejandro Duran, Jesús Labarta, Francisco Martinez, Xavier Martorell and Raul Silvera. Is the SCHEDULE clause really needed in OpenMP?. In International Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools (WOMPAT2003), pp. 69-83, June 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2716.

• Enric Gibert, Jesús Sánchez and Antonio González. Flexible Compiler-Managed L0 Buffers for Clustered VLIW Processors. In 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 36), pp. - , 2003.

• Enric Gibert, Jesús Sánchez and Antonio González. Local Scheduling Techniques for Memory Coherence in a Clustered VLIW Processor with a Distributed Data Cache. In 1st International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2003), pp. 193-203, March 2003.

• E. F. Torres, Pablo Ibáñez, Victor Viñals and José M. Llabería. Counteracting Bank Misprediction in Sliced First-Level Caches. In European Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar 2003), pp. 586-596, August 2003.

• Francisco J. Cazorla, Enrique Fernández, Alex Ramírez and Mateo Valero. Improving Memory Latency Aware Fetch Policies for SMT Processors. In 5th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-V), pp. 70-85, October 2003. Best student paper award.

• Felix Freitag, Jordi Caubet, Montse Farreras, Toni Cortés and Jesús Labarta. Exploring the Predictability of MPI Messages. In 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2003), pp. 69-69, April 2003. Publicación completa en un CD-ROM.

• Fermín Sánchez and María Ribera Sancho. Repercusiones del futuro Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior sobre las titulaciones universitarias de Informática en España. In IX Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática (JENUI), pp. 37-44, July 2003.

• Francisco Hidrobo and Toni Cortés. Towards Zero-Knowledge Model for Disk Drive. In Autonomic Computing Workshop 2003, pp. 122-130, June 2003.

• Francisco Hidrobo and Toni Cortés. Towards an Autonomic Storage System to Improve Parallel I/0. In 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 122-127, November 2003.

• Rubén González, Adrian Cristal, Daniel Ortega and Mateo Valero. Arquitecturas Basadas en el Contenido. In XIV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 541-546, September 2003.

• Gladys Utrera, Julita Corbalán and Jesús Labarta. Scheduling of MPI Applications: Self Co-Scheduling. In Euro-Par 2004, pp. 248-258, January 2003.

• Jaume Abella and Antonio González. Power Efficient Data Cache Designs. In 21st International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2003), pp. 8-13, October 2003.

• Jaume Abella and Antonio González. Power-Aware Adaptive Issue Queue and Register File. In 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003), pp. 34-43, December 2003.

• Jaume Abella and Antonio González. On Reducing Register Pressure and Energy in Multiple-Banked Register Files. In 21st International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2003), pp. 14-20, January 2003.

• Josep M. Banus, Alex Arenas and Jesús Labarta. Improving Multiprocessor Average-Case Schedulability using A Modified Global Dual Priority Algorithm. In Real-Time Systems Symposium, Work-in-Progress Session, pp. 89-92, December 2003.

• Josep M. Banus, Alex Arenas and Jesús Labarta. Dual Priority Algorithm to Schedule Real-Time Tasks in a Shared Memory Multiprocessor. In 11th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS 2003 ), pp. 112-121, April 2003.

• Jordi Guitart, Xavier Martorell, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. Application/Kernel Cooperation Towards the Efficient Execution of Shared-memory Parallel Java Codes. In 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2003), pp. - , April 2003.

• Javier Larrosa Bondía and Enric Morancho. Solving 'Still Life' with Soft Constraints and Bucket Elimination. In 9th International Conference on Constraint Programming, pp. 466-479, September 2003.

• Josep R. Herrero and Juan J. Navarro. Automatic Benchmarking and Optimization of Codes: an Experience with Numerical Kernels. In The 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, pp. 701-706, June 2003.

• Josep R. Herrero and Juan J. Navarro. Building Software via Shared Knowledge. In The 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, pp. 861-867, June 2003.

• Josep R. Herrero and David Benlliure. Operating System Support for Process Confinement. In International Conference on Security and Management, pp. 421-425, June 2003.

• Josep R. Herrero and Juan J. Navarro. Improving Performance of Hypermatrix Cholesky Factorization. In 9th International Euro-Par Conference, pp. 461-469, August 2003.

• Juan Piernas, Toni Cortés and José M. García. Traditional versus Next-Generation Journaling File Systems: a Performance Comparison Approach . In 2nd Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for High performance Scientific and Engineering Computing (SHPSEC-03), pp. - , January 2003.

• Javier Zalamea, Josep Llosa, Eduard Ayguadé and Mateo Valero. Hierarchical Clustered Register File Organization for VLIW Processors. In 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2003), pp. - , April 2003.

• Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, George Almasi, P. J. Bohrer, Jose R. Brunheroto, Calin Cascaval, Jose Castaños, Derek Lieber, Xavier Martorell, Jose Moreira, Alda Sanomiya and Eugen Schenfeld. Full Circle: Simulating Linux Clusters on Linux Clusters. In Fourth LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters, pp. - , June 2003.

• Marc González, Eduard Ayguadé, Xavier Martorell and Jesús Labarta. Exploiting Pipelined Executions in OpenMP. In International Conference on Parallel Processing ICPP-03, pp. 153-160, October 2003.

• Sally McKee, Zhen Fang and Mateo Valero. An MPEG-4 Performance Study for non-SIMD General Purpose Architectures. In 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2003), pp. - , March 2003.

• María Jesús Garzarán, Milos Prvulovic, Victor Viñals, José M. Llabería, Lawrence Rauchwerger and Josep Torrellas. Using Software Logging to Support Multi-Version Buffering in Thread-Level Speculation. In 12th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-2003), pp. - , September 2003.

• María Jesús Garzarán, Milos Prvulovic, Victor Viñals, José M. Llabería, Lawrence Rauchwerger and Josep Torrellas. Tradeoffs in Buffering Memory State for Thread-Level Speculation in Multiprocessors. In Ninth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2003), pp. 191-202, February 2003.

• Miguel Valero-García and Luis Díaz de Cerio. Evaluación Continuada a un Coste Razonable. In IX Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática (JENUI), pp. 183-190, July 2003.

• Miquel Pericas, Eduard Ayguadé, Javier Zalamea, Josep Llosa and Mateo Valero. Power and Performance Evaluation of Widened and Clustered VLIW Cores. In SAMOS III, pp. 64-70, July 2003.

• Miquel Pericas, Eduard Ayguadé, Javier Zalamea, Josep Llosa and Mateo Valero. Power-performance Trade-offs in Wide and Clustered VLIW Cores for Numerical Codes. In 5th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-V), pp. 113-126, October 2003.

• Marco A. Ramírez, Adrian Cristal, Alex Veidenbaum, Luis A. Villa and Mateo Valero. A Low-Power-Instruction-Queue Wakeup Mechanism. In XIV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 533-540, September 2003.

• Marco A. Ramírez, Adrian Cristal, Alex Veidenbaum, Luis A. Villa and Mateo Valero. A Simple Low-Energy Instruction Wakeup Mechanism. In 5th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-V), pp. 99-112, October 2003.

• Oscar Ardaiz, Pau Artigas Vidal, Luis Díaz de Cerio, Felix Freitag, Sanji Sanjeevan, Roc Messeguer, Leandro Navarro and Dolors Royo. ULabGrid, an infrastructure to develop distant laboratories for undergrad students over a Grid. In First European Across Grids Conference (ACROSSGRID), pp. - , February 2003.

• Oscar Ardaiz, Luis Díaz de Cerio, Antonia Gallardo Gómez, Roc Messeguer and Sanji Sanjeevan. Collaborative Learning in Grid Environments: A Case Study. In X Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial / V Jornadas de Transferencia Tecnológica de Inteligencia Artificial, pp. 51-56, November 2003.

• Oliverio J. Santana, Marco Galluzzi, Alex Ramírez and Mateo Valero. An Analysis of Dynamic Instruction Streams. In XIV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 527-532, September 2003.

• Oliverio J. Santana, Alex Ramírez and Mateo Valero. Latency Tolerant Branch Predictors. In 2003 International Workshop on Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems (IWIA'03), pp. 30-39, July 2003.

• Rosa M. Badia, Francesc Escalé, Edgar Gabriel, Judit Giménez, Rainer Keller, Jesús Labarta and Matthias Müller. A Framework for Performance Modeling and Prediction. In First European Across Grids Conference (ACROSSGRID), pp. 257-264, February 2003.

• Rosa M. Badia, Germán Rodríguez and Jesús Labarta. Deriving analytical models from a limited number of runs. In Parallel Computing (ParCo2003), pp. 1-2, September 2003. Los proceedings se publicaran en el Parallel Computing Journal proximamente.

• Rosa M. Badia, Francesc Escalé, Edgar Gabriel, Judit Giménez, Rainer Keller, Jesús Labarta and Matthias Müller. Performance Prediction in a Grid Environment. In First European Across Grids Conference (ACROSSGRID), pp. 257-264, February 2003.

• Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pau Artigas Vidal, Luis Díaz de Cerio, Felix Freitag, Roc Messeguer, Leandro Navarro and Dolors Royo. Decentralized vs. Centralized Economic Coordination of Resource Allocation in Grids. In First European Across Grids Conference (ACROSSGRID), pp. - , February 2003.

• Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pau Artigas Vidal, Luis Díaz de Cerio, Felix Freitag, Roc Messeguer, Leandro Navarro and Dolors Royo. Exploring the Catallactic Coordination Approach for Peer-to-Peer Systems. In XI Jornadas de Concurrencia 2003, pp. 295-305, June 2003.

• Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pau Artigas Vidal, Luis Díaz de Cerio, Felix Freitag, Roc Messeguer, Leandro Navarro and Dolors Royo. Exploring Decentralized Resource Allocation in Application Layer Networks. In Agent Based Simulation IV, pp. 127-132, April 2003.

• Teresa Olivares, Toni Cortés, Luis Orozco, Francisco J. Quiles and Antonio Garrido. Un nuevo cliente NFS predictivo multihilo para la era multimedia. In XIV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 323-328, September 2003.

• Teresa Olivares, Toni Cortés, Luis Orozco, Francisco J. Quiles and Antonio Garrido. A Multithreaded NFS Client Architecture for Multimedia Cluster Generation. In 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. - , November 2003.

• Victor Muntes, Josep Aguilar Saborit and Josep-L. Larriba-Pey. Pushing Down Bit Filters in the pipelined execution of large queries. In 9th International Euro-Par Conference, pp. 328-337, August 2003.

• Xavier Martorell, Julita Corbalán and Jesús Labarta. Evaluation of the Memory Page Migration Influence in the System Performance: The case of the SGI O200. In 17th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, pp. - , 2003.

• Xavier Vera, Jaume Abella, Antonio González and Josep Llosa. Optimizing Program Locality Through CMEs and GAs. In 12th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-2003), pp. 68-78, September 2003.

• Yolanda Becerra, Toni Cortés, Jordi Garcia and José I. Navarro. Evaluating the Importance of Virtual Memory for Java. In 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2003), pp. 101-110, March 2003.

Book Chapters

• M.Angels Moncusi, Alex Arenas and Jesús Labarta. A Modified Dual Priority Scheduling Algorithm for Hard Real Time Systems to Improve Energy Savings. In Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power , Kluwer Academic Publishers , January 2003.

• Daniel Jiménez, Josep-L. Larriba-Pey and Juan J. Navarro. Case Study: Memory Conscious Parallel Sorting. In Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies, Springer, January 2003.

• Fermín Sánchez. Odisea. In Premio UPC 2002, Nova, May 2003.

• Josep-L. Larriba-Pey. Exploitation of the Memory Hierarchy in Relational DBMSs. In Algorithms fo Memory Hierarchies, Springer, January 2003.

• María Jesús Garzarán, Milos Prvulovic, José M. Llabería, Victor Viñals, Lawrence Rauchwerger and Josep Torrellas. Software Logging under Speculative Parallelization. In High Performance Memory Systems, Springer Verlag, January 2003.