Parallel, Distributed, and Pervasive Computing

✍ Scribed by Marvin Zelkowitz Ph.D. MS BS.

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Series: Advances in Computers 63
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The term computation gap has been defined as the difference between the computational power demanded by the application domain and the computational power of the underlying computer platform. Traditionally, closing the computation gap has been one of the major and fundamental tasks of computer architects. However, as technology advances and computers become more pervasive in the society, the domain of computer architecture has been extended. The scope of research in the computer architecture is no longer restricted to the computer hardware and organization issues. A wide spectrum of topics ranging from algorithm design to power management is becoming part of the computer architecture. Based on the aforementioned trend and to reflect recent research efforts, attempts were made to select a collection of articles that covers different aspects of contemporary computer architecture design. This volume of the Advances in Computers contains six chapters on different aspects of computer architecture. Key features: - Wide range of research topics. - Coverage of new topics such as power management, Network on Chip, Load balancing in distributed systems, and pervasive computing. - Simple writing style. ?· Wide range of research topics. ?· Coverage of new topics such as power management, Network on Chip, Load balancing in distributed systems, and pervasive computing. ?· Simple writing style

✦ Table of Contents

front cover......Page 1
copyright......Page 6
table of contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 19
Techniques to Improve Performance Beyond Pipelining: Superpipelining, Superscalar, and VLIW......Page 21
Introduction-Overview......Page 22
Superpipelining......Page 24
Superscalar Architectures......Page 31
VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word)......Page 42
Conclusion-Impact on Modern Microprocessors......Page 52
References 1......Page 53
Networks on Chip (NoC): Interconnects of Next Generation Systems on Chip......Page 55
Introduction 2......Page 56
NoC Overview......Page 61
Communication Structures......Page 72
Application Mapping Issues......Page 84
Power Consumption......Page 86
Reliability......Page 90
Tools......Page 92
Application Domain-Case Study......Page 93
Conclusion 2......Page 102
Acknowledgements 2......Page 103
References 2......Page 104
Characterizing Resource Allocation Heuristics for Heterogeneous Computing Systems......Page 111
Introduction 3......Page 113
Proposed Characterization Scheme......Page 118
Example Mapper Evaluations......Page 133
Related Work......Page 134
Summary 3......Page 141
References 3......Page 142
Power Analysis and Optimization Techniques for Energy Efficient Computer Systems......Page 149
Introduction 4......Page 150
Power Analysis and Optimization Using Energy Models......Page 152
Dynamic Power Management (DPM) Techniques......Page 160
References 4......Page 180
Flexible and Adaptive Services in Pervasive Computing......Page 185
Introduction 5......Page 186
Overview of Pervasive Computing......Page 188
Services in Pervasive Computing......Page 191
Related Work......Page 193
Modeling Components of Pervasive Computing......Page 200
Service Provisioning Model......Page 206
Petri Net Modeling and Simulation Study......Page 213
Modeling Dynamism of Pervasive Computing Using Colored Petri Nets......Page 218
Conclusions and Future Work 5......Page 224
References 5......Page 225
Search and Retrieval of Compressed Text......Page 227
Introduction 6......Page 228
Information Theory Background......Page 231
Classification of Lossless Compression Algorithms......Page 233
Transform Based Methods: Star (*) Transform......Page 239
Compressed Domain Pattern Matching......Page 247
Text Information Retrieval on Compressed Text......Page 257
Search Techniques for Text Retrieval......Page 269
Parallel and Distributed Text Processing......Page 276
Conclusion 6......Page 278
References 6......Page 279
Further Reading......Page 282
Author Index......Page 283
Subject Index......Page 293
Contents of Volumes in This Series......Page 305

✦ Subjects

Информатика и вычислительная техника;Периодика по информатике и вычислительной технике;Advances in Computer;