Courses

I am currenly lecturing at the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB), i.e. Barcelona School of Informatics.

Current courses (2025/26)

• Concurrence, Parallelism and Distributed Systems (CPDS-MIRI)
• Supercomputing for Challenging Applications (SCA-MIRI)
• Computer Architecture (AC-GEI)
• Parallelism (PAR-GEI)
• High-Performance Computing (HPC-BBI)  developed within the Bachelor Degree in Bioinformatics offered by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya–BarcelonaTech (UPC), University of Barcelona (UB) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Past courses

• Compilers for High Performance Computing (CHPC-MIRI)
• Operating Systems (SO)
• Optimization of Numerical Simulations in Engineering (Code 34326)
• Parallel Programming Models and Algorithms (AMPP) (Code 34325)
• Introduction to Computers (IC)
• Computer Architecture (AC)
• Awareness of Architecture in Programming ( PCA )
• Use of Operating Systems (USO)
• Operating Systems (SO)
• Advanced Operating Systems Concepts (CASO)
• Tools for Development of Applications under UNIX (EADAX)


• For a year (1993-94), I lectured at the Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Vilanova i la Geltrú (EPSEVG). There, I started a couple of courses:
  • Introduction to Operating Systems (ISOP)
  • Operating Systems (SIOP)
  Another course I instructed (just a few hours) at the EUPVG:
  • Introduction to programming and Computers (INIPRO)

PhD Thesis Advisor

• Óscar Peredo Andrade. Large Scale Geostatistics with Locally Varying Anisotropy. PhD thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), June 2022. Advisor: José R. Herrero. (pdf)
   
• Nima Sahraneshinsamani. Exploiting Mixed Precision for High Performance Computing and Fault Tolerance. PhD thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Expected September 2023. Advisor: José R. Herrero
   
• Diego Marrón Vida. Improving Decision Tree and Neural Network Learning for Evolving Data-streams. PhD thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), December 2019. Advisors: Eduard Ayguadé,  José R. Herrero and Albert Bifet. (pdf)

Other courses

• Foundations of High Performance Scientific Computing at
  • École Centrale de Marseille in France (Sept. 2015, March 2017, January 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021)
  • International Islamic University Malaysia (April 2016)
  • Universiti Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia (May 2016)
  • Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranës in Albania (Feb. 2017)
  • Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) in Lisbon, Portugal (March 2017, July 2018)
  • Beijing Institute of Technology in China (June 2017).
  • Samara University in Russia (April 2018)
  • Tallinna Tehnikaülikool (Tallinn University of Technology) in Estonia (May 2018)
  • Faculté Euromed de Génie, Université Euro-Méditerranéenne de Fès, Fès, Morocco (Sep. 2019)
• Performance Analysis and Tools at
  • Aalto University, School of Science in Finland (April 2022)
• Introduction to Parallel Programming designed as a MOOC at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. (2015).
• Système d'exploitation at Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique (ESI), Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso (UPB) in Burkina Faso (Feb. 2015)
• University of Reading, UK, within the Advanced European MSc in Network Centred Computing
  • (5 - 9 March, 2007) SEMC1A Operating Systems and Advanced Programming in Unix
• Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya (CESCA) within Aula de Supercomputació
  • (18/12/2000) Seminar on debugging: Chasing the Bug