This paper presents Personal Data Lake, a unified storage facility for storing, analyzing and
querying personal data. A data lake stores data regardless of format and thus provides an …

We develop an efficient algorithm to track point features supported by image patches
undergoing affine deformations and changes in illumination. The algorithm is based on a …

Due to the advent of modern hardware architectures of high-performance comput-ers, the
way the parallel applications are laid out is of paramount importance for performance. This …

High-performance computing (HPC) applications are becoming increasingly demanding in
terms of computing power. Currently, this computing power can be delivered by parallel …

The large processing requirements of seismic wave propagation simulations make High
Performance Computing (HPC) architectures a natural choice for their execution. However …

Improving the performance of work-stealing load-balancing algorithms in distributed shared-
memory systems is challenging. These algorithms need to overcome high costs of …

Programming multicore or manycore architectures is a hard challenge particularly if one
wants to fully take advantage of their computing power. Moreover, a hierarchical topology …

Data-intensive applications frequently rely on multicore computer systems, in which Non-
Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is a dominant architecture. To transfer data into and out …

Seismic wave models provide a way to study the consequences of future earthquakes.
When modeling a restricted region, these models require a boundary condition to absorb the …

Programmers today face a bewildering array of parallel programming models and tools,
making it difficult to choose an appropriate one for each application. An increasingly popular …