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Due to the data centers rapid growth and introduction of a new basic type of massive data processing platforms which requires accelerators to speedup computation and enhance the efficiency and reduce power consumption, using accelerators is inevitable. Communication and data transfer time between software and hardware is the most of time spent on the use of accelerators. By optimizing this part of the hardware / software platform, we have achieved substantial results in this area. The aim of our study is to organize a survey of real accelerator characteristics. To figure out its defects and main drawbacks, in addition to improving the overall efficiency of system. The implementation of... 

Large differences in chromosome structures, compared to the reference genome, are one of the essential reasons for genetic variations. These differences that are called structural variations are associated with numerous diseases, including schizophrenia, cancer development, and autism. Therefore, calling these variations is of utmost importance in the next stages of analysis. However, due to computationally intensive tasks of discovering these variations, calling structural variations is lagging behind data produced by sequencers. Hence, discovering these variations with proper accuracy and in a reasonable time is of paramount importance. In this research, we implement a fast, yet accurate,... 

Solar panels are still rather expensive equipments. At current electricity prices, it takes several years to return the investment made to install them in a household. Smarter use of their produced energy can help reduce this break-even time, and hence, would motivate more households to be willing to install and use them which would finally result in a more sustainable society with less reliance on fossil fuels. Electricity prices usually differ at different times of day with the common, but unfortunate, property that the price is maximized at evenings when the solar energy production is minimal or non-existent while at the peak production of the solar panels, i.e., around noon, the price is... 

DNA analysis plays a significant role in fields such as pharmacy, agriculture, genealogy, and forensics. Next generation sequencing datasets cover a gene several times due to a large number of readings. Therefore, the initial data volume is several times the amount of memory required to store the DNA strand. First, the DNA sequence of a sample should be made using the primary data, and then the difference should be found by comparing the sample DNA sequence with the reference DNA sequence. By finding these differences, one can extract the characteristics of the tested species. The extracted properties are precious for genetics researchers. For example, they can produce drugs that are... 

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are one of the main subjects of research in the organic electronic advanced technology. There are many advantages for OLEDs like self-emitting, high efficiency, wide vision angle, high contrast, and rapid response time. The main challenge in this area is the long-time stability of performance in air ambiance. Although the encapsulation process could overcome the instability problem, it increases the final cost. In this project, metal oxides have been utilized for the injection of electrons and holes in hybrid light emitting diodes (HyLEDs). In the first stage, inverted structure of HyLEDs with ZnO and MgxZn1-xO layers was fabricated and characterized....