Memory benchmarking
Mess Benchmark
Bandwidth–latency benchmarking across memory systems for HPC and AI.
Victor Xirau Guardans
I work on how memory-system and architecture choices translate into real performance for HPC and AI workloads. I also teach Operating Systems and ship independent apps.
Publications
Selected publications.
Memory-system simulation, benchmarking and workload characterisation, plus earlier work in deep learning for medical imaging.
- 2026
Integration, Enhancements, and Evaluation of Memory Simulators
IISWC 2026IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, Boulder, CO, to appear
- 2026
- 2026
- 2025
FAiNDER: FAiND the Best Hardware for Your AI Application
Technical reportBarcelona Supercomputing Center
- 2024
Unsupervised Deep Learning Architectures for Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI Scans
CCIA 202426th Int. Conf. of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp. 90-93
- 2024
Active Compute Memory: Enhancing Memory and Processing in Near-Memory Architectures for Vector Classification
Symposium11th BSC Doctoral Symposium, Barcelona
- 2024
Unsupervised Deep Learning Strategies for Brain Image Segmentation
ThesisB.Sc. in Multimedia Engineering, La Salle - Ramon Llull University
Research platforms
Research tools.
The tools I build and maintain with the Memory Systems group that are public so far: benchmarks and profiling integrations that characterise memory from bandwidth-latency curves to full applications.
Tool integration
Mess-Paraver
Connects Mess with Paraver to analyze and visualize application memory-system performance.
AI hardware explorer
FAiNDER
Explore AI model requirements and hardware choices. Developed in collaboration with Micron.
Website
Mess Framework Website
Benchmarking, simulation, and application profiling tools from the Mess project.
Website
Memory Systems for HPC & AI
Research, tools, publications, and training from the BSC Memory Systems team.
Featured work
Things I have shipped.
Products designed and built end to end, from research tooling to apps in the stores.
Chronicle
A personal home for everything you watch. Track shows and movies, find your next favourite, and connect your own media library.
Awards
Recognition.
Research transfer
HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award
FAiNDER, awarded to the BSC Memory Systems and Micron team.
Hackathon
Hackathon UPC, 2nd place
Second place at Hackathon UPC with Plane Dodge.
Mobile product
MSchools App Awards - First Prize in Leisure and Personal Management
Award received for Kofu during the MSchools App Awards organized by Mobile World Capital.
Tutorials & training
Tutorials and training.
Courses and tutorials on memory-system profiling and performance analysis, with Intel and INESC-ID.
MICRO-59
It's the Memory, Stupid!
Half-day tutorial in Athens with Intel and INESC-ID.
BSC training
It's the Memory, Stupid!
Full-day course at BSC with Intel and INESC-ID. Co-presented Memory System Performance is Messy and TopDown Microarchitecture Analysis.
Open source
Open source.
Upstream contributions and personal tools, in C, Rust, Java and TypeScript.
Upstream contributor
LIKWID
Contributions to hardware support and performance-counter tooling.
Contributor
Snapzy
Contributions to an open-source macOS screen-capture app.
macOS Git client
HydraGit
Native macOS Git client in Rust (Tauri) and TypeScript for merge conflicts.
Repository
Rummikub Solver
Exact solver built on published Rummikub complexity research, with table OCR.
Algorithms and data structures
CSLS
Graphs, trees, Dijkstra, R-Tree, and BST-focused university systems project.
Game prototype
AgeRoyale
Clash Royale-style clone built with Java Swing.
Web product
LSteam
Game store project using PHP with Slim and Twig.
Graphics experiment
SolarSystem
3D solar-system model built in C++ with OpenGL and GLFW.
Stores
Apps in the stores.
Independent products shipped to iOS and Android, and the developer profiles behind them.
Chronicle
TV and movie tracker with a watchlist, episode progress, a release calendar, and ratings shared with friends.
- Episode tracking
- Release calendar
- Jellyfin and Seerr integrations
TheCount
Real-time shared counting game where everyone in the same mode pushes one live run forward together and one mistake can reset the run for all players.
- Shared global runs
- Pressure-based modes
- Lives, streaks, and milestones
Dyvide
Car-trip cost-sharing app built with Flutter, Go and AWS. Now discontinued.
- Automatic trip calculator
- Vehicle and custom-location management
- Shared trips and global feed
Developer profiles
- Developer profile
Google Play developer profile
Android releases, experiments, and public listings.
Open profile - Developer profile
App Store developer profile
iOS releases and upcoming public distributions.
Open profile
Contact
Get in touch.
Based in Barcelona. If you want to talk performance, memory systems, or something I have built, my inbox is open.