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An Architecture for Load Balance in Computer Cluster Applications

Amid a data revolution that is transforming industries around the globe, computing systems have undergone a paradigm shift where many applications are scaled out to run on multiple computers in a computing cluster. As the storage and processing capabilitie ...

EPFL2020

Visual speech recognition : from traditional to deep learning frameworks

Marina Zimmermann

Speech is the most natural means of communication for humans. Therefore, since the beginning of computers it has been a goal to interact with machines via speech. While there have been gradual improvements in this field over the decades, and with recent dr ...

EPFL2018

Near-Memory Address Translation

Javier Picorel Obando

Virtual memory (VM) is a crucial abstraction in modern computer systems at any scale, from handheld devices to datacenters. VM provides programmers the illusion of an always sufficiently large and linear memory, making programming easier. Although the core ...

EPFL2017

Heuristic algorithms for maximising the total profit of end-of-life computer remanufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Sangje Cho

Recently the optimisation of end-of-life (EOL) computer remanufacturing has been highlighted since a big amount of used computers have been disposed of every year. Each part inspected after disassembling EOL computers can have various EOL options such as r ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

State Machine Replication : from Analytical Evaluation to High-Performance Paxos

Nuno Filipe de Sousa Santos

Since their invention more than half a century ago, computers have gone from being just an handful of expensive machines each filling an entire room, to being an integral part of almost every aspect of modern life. Nowadays computers are everywhere: in our ...

EPFL2012

Dataflow Programming for Systems Design Space Exploration for Multicore Platforms

Christophe Lucarz

Nowadays processing systems are asked to support increasing complex and demanding high-performance applications, especially in the signal processing and video processing domains. The design of these systems are becoming extremely challenging because of sev ...

EPFL2011

Concurrency and dynamic protocol update for group communication middleware

Olivier Rütti

The last three decades have seen computers invading our society: computers are now present at work to improve productivity and at home to enlarge the scope of our hobbies and to communicate. Furthermore, computers have been involved in many critical system ...

EPFL2009

ACTIVE, A PLATFORM FOR BUILDING INTELLIGENT OPERATING ROOMS

Charles Baur

Today computers are part of the standard equipment of modern surgery rooms. They assist surgeons in performing complex procedures that would not be possible otherwise. However, despite the availability of more powerful and complex computer systems, their u ...

Sauramps Médical2007

Getting Real with Ubiquitous Computing: the Impact of Discrepancies on Collaboration

Nicolas Nova

Ubiquitous computing is still a maturing field of investigation. The vision of the seamless integration of computers to people’s life has yet to happen, if it ever has to become a reality. Nowadays, most mobile, distributed systems and sensor technologies ...

2006