Cooperative and peer-to-peer services both seek to provide a way to scale services beyond what can be provided by even a high-end server machine. Cooperative services do this by treating a service as a parallel program and then running the program across a cluster of machines. Key challenges include rearchitecting services not only to provide good performance by balancing parallelism and locali...

In this chapter, scheduling is defined as the activity that consists in mapping a task graph onto a target platform. The task graph represents the application, nodes denote computational tasks, and edges model precedence constraints between tasks. For each task, an assignment (choose the processor that will execute the task) and a schedule (decide when to start the execution) are determined. Th...

— This paper introduces systolic automata for VLSI as highly concurrent acceptors. Attention is focused on tree automata although other types are also discussed briefly. A number of preliminary results about the capabilities of such automata are obtained. The approach not only opens up a new and interesting area oflanguage theory but also its results give useful hints for VLSI system design par...

Advances in semiconductor technology and design automation, together with increased market competition, have driven engineers to achieve higher levels of integration, with shortened development cycles. Consequently, verification and analysis are becoming a major bottleneck for timely design of complex systems. The panelists and the audience will explore silicon debug and its impact on the desig...

A new VLSI design center VDEC spearheaded by Tokyo University and supported by the Japanese Government is about to alter the course of the microlectronic systems design education at Japanese Universities. The industrial support for microelectronic education and how a new and innovative Japanese University specializing in Computer Science and Computer Engineering uses projects in its curriculum ...

it is expected that residential units may replace   traditional heat and power production systems with cogeneration ones. among the different cogeneration systems, fuel cell based systems are a suitable choice due to their high efficiency, high power density, low emission and low noise. in this paper, a cogeneration system based on solid oxide fuel cells is examined. the system, including the f...

The increasing interests in using renewable energies are coming from solar thermal energy and solar photovoltaic systems to the micro production of electricity. Usually we already have considered the solar tracking topology in large scale applications like power plants and satellite but most of small scale applications don’t have any solar tracker system, mainly because of its high cost and com...