1996 DAC Reports

• Antonio González, Toni Jerez, Josep Llosa, Joan M. Parcerisa, and Mateo Valero. Performance Diagnostics of the ACRI-1. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-01, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-01.

• Luis Díaz de Cerio, Miguel Valero-García, and Antonio González. Overlapping Communication and Computation in Hypercubes . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-02, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Tomás Lang, Enric Musoll, and Jordi Cortadella. Reducing energy consumption of flip-flops . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-04, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• David López, Mateo Valero, Josep Llosa, and Eduard Ayguadé. A Study of the Impact of Using Wide Buses on the Perfect Benchmarks. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-05, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Anna M. del Corral and José M. Llabería. Who to Increase the Effective Memory Bandwidth in Multivector Processors . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-06, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-03.

• Roger Espasa and Mateo Valero. Instruction level characterization of the SPECfp92 programs on a vector computer . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-07, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-04.

• Joan Vila-Sallent, Josep Solé-Pareta, Jordi Torres, and Teodor Jové. A Simulated Testbed for Workstation Clusters over ATM Networks . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-08, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Joan Vila-Sallent and Josep Solé-Pareta. Supporting HPDC Applications over ATM Networks with Cell-Based Transport Mechanisms . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-09, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Joan Vila-Sallent and Josep Solé-Pareta. High Performance Distributed Computing over ATM Networks: State of the Art . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-10, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Jesús Labarta, Sergi Girona, Vincent Pillet, Toni Cortés, and Luis Gregoris. DiP : A Parallel Program Development Environment . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-11, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-05.

• Jordi Garcia, Eduard Ayguadé, and Jesús Labarta. A Graph Representation for Automatic Dynamic Data Distribution with Control Flow Analysis . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-12, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-06.

• Jordi Cortadella, Michael Kishinevsky, Alex Kondratyev, Luciano Lavagno, and Alexandre Yakovlev. Coupling technology mapping, logic optimization and state encoding for speed-independent circuits . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-13, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Toni Cortés, Sergi Girona, and Jesús Labarta. PACA: a Cooperative File System Cache for Parallel Machines . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-14, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-07.

• Fermín Sánchez and Jordi Cortadella. RESIS: A New Methodology for Register Optimization in Software Pipelining . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-15, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Maite Ortega, Toni Cortés, and Jesús Labarta. Implementation of a Cooperative File-System Cache on PAROS. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-16, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-08.

• Fermín Sánchez. Loop Pipelining with Resource and Timing Constraints . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-17, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Juan J. Navarro, Elena García, and Josep R. Herrero. Data Prefetching and Multilevel Blocking for Linear Algebra Operations . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-18, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-09.

• Jordi Cortadella, Michael Kishinevsky, Luciano Lavagno, and Alexandre Yakovlev. Deriving Petri Nets from Finite Transition Systems . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-19, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Llorenç Cerdà, Jorge García, and Olga Casals. A Study of the Fairness of the Fast Reservation Protocol . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-20, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Llorenç Cerdà and Olga Casals. A Simulation Study of Switching Mechanisms for ABR Service in ATM Networks . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-21, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Tomás Lang, Enric Musoll, and Jordi Cortadella. Redundant adder for reduced output transitions . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-22, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Joan M. Parcerisa, Antonio González, Josep Llosa, Toni Jerez, and Mateo Valero. The Performance of Decoupled Architectures . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-23, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Joan Vila-Sallent and Josep Solé-Pareta. Supporting HPDC Applications over ATM Networks with Cell-Based Transport Mechanisms . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-24, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Rosa M. Badia, Fermín Sánchez, and Jordi Cortadella. OSP: Optimal Software Pipelining with Minimum Register Pressure . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-25, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Tomás Lang, Enric Musoll, and Jordi Cortadella. Individual Flip-Flops with Gated Clocks for Low-Power Datapaths . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-26, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Eduard Ayguadé, P. Crooks, Jordi Garcia, Ronald Perrott, A. Stewart, and Jordi Torres. Review of Languages and Tools for High Performance Computing. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-27, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-10.

• Enric Pastor, Jordi Cortadella, and Alex Kondratyev. Structural Methods for the Synthesis of Speed-Independent Circuits . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-28, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Jesús Sánchez and Antonio González. Recopilación sobre Técnicas de Prebúsqueda Software . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-29, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• José González and Antonio González. Recopilación de Técnicas de Predicción de Saltos . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-30, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-11.

• José González and Antonio González. Identifying Contributing Factors to ILP . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-31, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-12.

• Gianluca Cornetta and Jordi Cortadella. A Survey on Design Quality Estimation for Embedded Systems . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-32, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Josep-L. Larriba-Pey, José Parra, and Juan J. Navarro. Exploitation on Multilevel Parallelism on Structured Linear Systems . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-33, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-19.

• Toni Cortés, Sergi Girona, and Jesús Labarta. Avoiding the Cache Coherence Problem in a Parallel/Distributed File System. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-34, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-13.

• Evelyn Marx. Seguridad en Internet: Firewalls . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-35, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Baltasar Riu. First Virtual y los medios de pago en Intenert . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-36, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Antonio González, Mateo Valero, Nigel Topham, and Joan M. Parcerisa. On the Effectiveness of XOR-Mapping Schemes for Cache Memories. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-37, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-14.

• Yolanda Becerra, Ernest Artiaga, Albert Serra, Julita Corbalán, Marisa Gil, Xavier Martorell, and José I. Navarro. Soporte del Entorno Operativo a la Gestión de la Memoria para la Ejecucion de Aplicaciones Paralelas . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-38, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Ernest Artiaga and José I. Navarro. A Case Study of Parallelization: a Simple Fractal Generator . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-39, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Joan Vila-Sallent, Josep Solé-Pareta, Teodor Jové, and Jordi Torres. Potential Performance of Distributed Computing Systems over ATM Networks . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-40, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Fermín Sánchez, Jordi Cortadella, and Rosa M. Badia. Optimal Exploration of the Unrolling Degree for Software Pipelining . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-41, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Enric Musoll and Jordi Cortadella. On Reducing Electromagnetic Interference in High-Speed Digital Systems . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-42, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), 1996.

• Llorenç Cerdà and Olga Casals. Improvements and Performance Study of the Conformance Definition for the ABR Service in ATM Networks . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-43, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), October 1996.

• Josep M. Barceló, Jorge García, and Olga Casals. Worst Case Traffic Models and their application to CAC . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-44, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), October 1996.

• Jordi Iñigo. Una notació per a CSCW . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-45, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), October 1996.

• Jordi Iñigo. Aspectos de la gestin de sistemas CSCW . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-46, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), October 1996.

• Jordi Iñigo. Arquitectura para un sistema de gestin de aplicaciones CSCW . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-47, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), October 1996.

• Jordi Iñigo. Framework for Open CSCW . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-48, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), October 1996.

• Marta Jiménez, José M. Llabería, Agustín Fernández, and Enric Morancho. Index Set Splitting to Exploit Data Locality at the Register Level . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-49, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), October 1996.

• José González and Antonio González. Memory Address Prediction for Data Speculation. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-50, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-15.

• Adrian Cristal. Síntesis de Redes de Petri . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-51, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996.

• Roger Espasa, Mateo Valero, and James E. Smith. Out-of-Order Vector Architectures . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-52, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-16.

• Roger Espasa and Mateo Valero. Multithreaded Vector Architectures . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-53, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-17.

• Albert Serra, Marisa Gil, and José I. Navarro. Planificació orientada a les Aplicacions Paral.leles en Multiprocessadors Multiprogramats de Memoria Compartida . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-54, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996.

• Toni Juan, Tomás Lang, and Juan J. Navarro. Future Set-associative Caches might be as fast as Direct-mapped Caches . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-55, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996.

• Jordi Tubella. MULTIPATH: Un sistema para la programación lógica . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-56, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996. Phd Thesis.

• David López, Mateo Valero, Josep Llosa, and Eduard Ayguadé. Increasing Memory Bandwidth with Wide Buses: Compiler, Hardware and Performance Trade-offs . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-57, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-18.

• Manel Medina and Enric Peig. Survey of security related applications areas and objects . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-58, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), November 1996.

• Eduard Ayguadé, Jordi Garcia, M. Luz Grande, and Jesús Labarta. Data Distribution and Loop Parallelization for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-59, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-20.

• Enric Musoll, Tomás Lang, and Jordi Cortadella. Exploiting the locality of memory references to reduce the address bus energy . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-60, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996.

• Eduard Ayguadé, Cristina Barrado, Antonio González, Jesús Labarta, Josep Llosa, David López, Susana Moreno, David Padua, Fermín J. Reig, Enric Riera, and Mateo Valero. Ictineo: a Tool for Instruction Level Parallelism Research . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-61, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-21.

• Nigel Topham and Antonio González. Fast Conflict-Free Caches. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-62, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-22.

• Francisco Jordán. J++Asn Programming Language and Toolkit . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-63, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996.

• Yolanda Becerra, Ernest Artiaga, Albert Serra, Julita Corbalán, Marisa Gil, Xavier Martorell, and José I. Navarro. Influencia de la gestión de la memoria en la eficiencia de las aplicaciones paralelas . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-64, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996.

• Gabriel Pallares, Marisa Gil, and José I. Navarro. Evolución de la comunicación entre procesos remotos en Mach 3.0 . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-65, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996.

• Toni Cortés, Sergi Girona, and Jesús Labarta. I/O Performance of Scientific-Parallel Applications under PAFS . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-66, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-23.

• Francisca Quintana, Roger Espasa, and Mateo Valero. A comparison of Vector and Superscalar Architectures. Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-67, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996. Also published as UPC-CEPBA-96-24.

• Miguel Ruiz and Josep R. Herrero. Optimización de un algoritmo de clasificación . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-68, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996.

• Lluis Valls and José I. Navarro. Tècniques per a la millora de la IPC en el Microkernel Mach . Technical Report UPC-DAC-96-69, Departament Arquitectura de Computadors (UPC), December 1996.