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Performance Comparison of CFD Microbenchmarks on Diverse HPC Architectures

  • Flavio C. C. Galeazzo,
  • Marta Garcia-Gasulla,
  • Elisabetta Boella,
  • Josep Pocurull and ,
  • Sergey Lesnik,
  • Henrik Rusche,
  • Simone Bnà,
  • Matteo Cerminara,
  • Federico Brogi and
  • Andreas Ruopp
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

OpenFOAM is a CFD software widely used in both industry and academia. The exaFOAM project aims at enhancing the HPC scalability of OpenFOAM, while identifying its current bottlenecks and proposing ways to overcome them. For the assessment of the soft...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Best Practices, Challenges and Opportunities in Software Engineering)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,611 Views
23 Pages

Power and energy efficiency are among the most crucial requirements in high-performance and other computing platforms. In this work, extensive experimental methods and procedures were used to assess the power and energy efficiency of fundamental hard...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System-Integrated Intelligence and Intelligent Systems 2023)
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  • Open Access
2,804 Views
25 Pages

This paper evaluates the current maturity of automatic code-generation workflows for deploying modern CNN-based object detectors on embedded GPU platforms. We compare a native pipeline against a code generation pipeline through a Model-Based Engineer...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
460 Views
30 Pages

3 October 2026

Unified memory allows a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) to share data, simplifying the development of applications that use both processors. However, a shared memory interface does not eliminate the performance effe...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,038 Views
16 Pages

13 July 2022

Modern Linux operating systems are being used in a wide range of fields, from small IoT embedded devices to supercomputers. However, most machines use the default Linux scheduler parameters implemented for general-purpose environments. The problem is...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,703 Views
14 Pages

27 November 2025

Modern high-performance processors employ sophisticated branch prediction mechanisms to minimize control hazards and maximize instruction-level parallelism. A core component of this mechanism is the Branch Target Buffer (BTB), a critical hardware str...

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  • Open Access
1,458 Views
28 Pages

Memory Isolation and Privilege Restriction-Based Virtual Machine Protection Method

  • Xinlong Wu,
  • Xun Gong,
  • Miaomiao Yang,
  • Guosheng Huang and ,
  • Yingzhi Shi and
  • Ping Dong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Data in multi-tenant cloud environments is increasingly shared across organizations, making strong in-memory isolation a critical requirement. Existing confidential computing mechanisms such as AMD SEV provide hardware-enforced protection, but they r...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,720 Views
16 Pages

How Can Wake-up Radio Reduce LoRa Downlink Latency for Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes?

  • Nour El Hoda Djidi,
  • Matthieu Gautier,
  • Antoine Courtay,
  • Olivier Berder and
  • Michele Magno

22 January 2021

LoRa is popular for internet of things applications as this communication technology offers both a long range and a low power consumption. However, LoRaWAN, the standard MAC protocol that uses LoRa as physical layer, has the bottleneck of a high down...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Massive and Reliable Sensor Communications with LPWANs Technologies)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,795 Views
37 Pages

Energy Implications of Mitigating Side-Channel Attacks on Branch Prediction

  • Fahad Alqurashi,
  • Muhammad Al-Hashimi,
  • Mostafa Saleh and
  • Osama Abulnaja

16 February 2025

Spectre variants 1 and 2 pose grave security threats to dynamic branch predictors in modern CPUs. While extensive research has focused on mitigating these attacks, little attention has been given to their energy and power implications. This study pre...

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  • Open Access
2,599 Views
15 Pages

2 November 2024

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are widely adopted in mobile devices, desktop PCs, and data centers since they offer higher throughput, lower latency, and lower power consumption to modern computing systems and applications compared with hard disk drives (...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,407 Views
23 Pages

2 July 2018

While cloud customers can benefit from migrating applications to the cloud, they are concerned about the security of the hosted applications. This is complicated by the customers not knowing whether their cloud applications are working as expected. A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Its Applications 2021)
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  • Open Access
280 Views
46 Pages

DANA: A Digital Agent for Network Data Acquisition in Network Digital Twin Context

  • Mario Sanz-Rodrigo,
  • Diego Rivera,
  • José Ignacio Moreno,
  • Manuel Álvarez-Campana and
  • Carmen Sánchez-Zas

29 September 2026

Network Digital Twins (NDTs) require accurate, structured, and timely data from heterogeneous communication networks. However, many existing approaches assume that this information is already available and do not address the operational path needed t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2026 and 2027 Feature Papers from Future Internet’s Editorial Board Members)
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  • Open Access
84 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2026

Large-scale quantum computers threaten the classical public-key foundations of Transport Layer Security (TLS), motivating deployment of standardized post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This study evaluates post-quantum TLS 1.3 as a systems-level deploym...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryptographic Protocols for Decentralized Security and Privacy)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,865 Views
17 Pages

9 May 2022

Scientific applications often require substantial amount of computing resources for running challenging jobs potentially consisting of many tasks from hundreds of thousands to even millions. As a result, many institutions collaborate to solve large-s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Parallel Computing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,899 Views
20 Pages

29 March 2022

There have been recent advances in multi-core machines with tens and hundreds of cores, and there is an increasing emphasis on the software structure. Many different synchronization mechanism techniques have been developed to improve the performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,932 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2023

In recent decades, memory-intensive applications have experienced a boom, e.g., machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and big data analytics. Such applications often experience out-of-memory (OOM) errors, which cause unexpected process...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cross-Applications of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,489 Views
20 Pages

Single-board computers (SBCs) are emerging as an efficient and economical solution for fog and edge computing, providing localized big data processing with lower energy consumption. Newer and faster SBCs deliver improved performance while still maint...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
293 Views
41 Pages

12 October 2026

Safety-critical maritime navigation depends on machine-readable data products. Their digital signatures establish provenance and integrity but do not guarantee that authenticated content can be parsed safely: even passive data containing no executabl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy Preservation in Cyber–Physical Systems)
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  • Open Access
1,258 Views
26 Pages

This paper presents an ARMv8/NEON-oriented implementation of NCC-Sign targeting the NTT-friendly trinomial parameter sets (NCC-Sign-1/3/5), whose dominant cost arises from mixed-radix NTT computations with n=2a·3b. We design lane-local SIMD ke...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convergence of IoT and Edge Computing: Advances in Security and Performance Optimization)
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  • Open Access
784 Views
22 Pages

In this work, we analyze the arithmetic building blocks of DNA basecalling to motivate runtime approximate computing in bio systems-on-chip (BioSoCs). We propose and characterize a reconfigurable compressor-tree multiplier whose operating mode can be...

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  • Open Access
392 Views
25 Pages

8 July 2026

Robotic table tennis perception typically produces a continuous three-dimensional (3D) ball-state stream, whereas rule understanding, score attribution, and training review need discrete, ordered, and auditable events. We cast this gap as hybrid even...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control of Complex Dynamical Systems and Robotics with Applications, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
432 Views
25 Pages

4 October 2026

In higher education, hallucination-free information retrieval is critical for navigating complex institutional legislation. This study develops a highly accurate, production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture tailored to Turkish,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Natural Language Processing)
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  • Open Access
44 Views
43 Pages

This paper proposes that superintelligence should be studied as an emerging systems discipline, rather than only as an extension of artificial intelligence. The present study focuses on the long-horizon problem as one operational challenge within thi...

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  • Open Access
2,398 Views
20 Pages

18 November 2022

The number of processing elements per solution is growing. From embedded devices now employing (often heterogeneous) multi-core processors, across many-core scientific computing platforms, to distributed systems comprising thousands of interconnected...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,491 Views
25 Pages

Lightweight One-to-Many User-to-Sensors Authentication and Key Agreement

  • Hussein El Ghor,
  • Ahmad Hani El Fawal,
  • Ali Mansour,
  • Ahmad Ahmad-Kassem and
  • Abbass Nasser

4 January 2026

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments demands Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) protocols that scale from one initiator to many devices while preserving strong security guarantees on constrained hardware. Prior lightweight on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extended Reality and Cybersecurity)
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  • Open Access
4,154 Views
39 Pages

31 May 2021

Transactional memory has been receiving much attention from both academia and industry. In transactional memory, program code is split into transactions, blocks of code that appear to execute atomically. Transactions are executed speculatively and th...

(This article belongs to the Section Parallel and Distributed Algorithms)
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  • Open Access
836 Views
26 Pages

Large language model (LLM) agents are becoming cognitive interfaces to data lakes, enterprise knowledge bases, vector memories, browsers, files, and software tools. This shift creates a data-governance gap: an agent may reason over large private cont...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems)
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  • Open Access
575 Views
26 Pages

14 August 2026

Branch prediction errors can reduce superscalar throughput by more than the error frequency alone suggests because a single misprediction can trigger redirect, squash, refetch, refill, and window recovery, which collectively disrupt sustained instruc...

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  • Open Access
612 Views
48 Pages

Enhancing Communication Security in Automotive Software: A Hybrid SecOC and MACsec Integration for SOME/IP over Ethernet

  • Omar Mohamed Ali Alm El-Din,
  • Omar Hesham Hanafy,
  • Ashraf El Farghly Salem and
  • Bassem Abdullah

29 August 2026

Automotive Ethernet networks increasingly rely on SOME/IP within the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform for service-oriented ECU communication, yet SOME/IP lacks built-in security, exposing systems to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM), replay, spoofing, and eavesdropp...