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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
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Spring 2019
Modern parallel programming languages such as OpenMP provide simple, portable programming models that support offloading of computation to various accelerator devices. Coupled with the increasing prevalence of heterogeneous computing platforms and the battle for supremacy in the co-processor...
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Fall 2022
Matrix multiplication is a key operation both in high-performance computing and in deep-learning applications. Generic building blocks have been introduced to abstract a matrix-multiplication operation and to enable the generation of efficient code for multiple architectures. This thesis presents...
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Fall 2012
This thesis makes improvement to the process of ahead-of-time feedback-directed optimization (FDO) in compiler design. It examines multiple aspects of FDO from profile collection and representation through to the performance evaluation of FDO code transformations. Two guiding principals knit the...