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New automated, application-independent methodology for designing and deploying sensor networks Following this book's clear explanations, examples, and illustrations, domain experts can design and deploy nontrivial networked sensing applications without much knowledge of the low-level networking aspects of deployment. This new approach is based on the Abstract Task Graph (ATaG), a data-driven programming model and an innovative methodology forarchitecture-independent programming and automatic software synthesis for sensor networks. ATaG programs are concise, understandable, and network-independent descriptions of global application functionality that can be automatically compiled onto any target deployment.The book begins with an overview chapter that addresses the important issues of programming methodologies and compares various programming models for sensor networks. Next, the authors set forth everything you need for designing and deploying sensor networks using ATaG, including: Detailed description of the ATaG model's features System-level support for architecture-independent programming Examination of the graphical programming and software synthesis environment for ATaG Case study illustrating the process of end-to-end application development and software synthesis using ATaG Throughout the book, the authors provide code excerpts and figures to help clarify key concepts and explain each step.For programmers, the graphical formalism of the ATaG program, coupled with the fact it uses an existing language (Java), means that no special training is needed to start developing and deploying applications in ATaG. Everything you need to know is clearly set forth in this book.

Rapid energy estimation for energy efficient applications using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) remains a challenging research topic. Energy dissipation and efficiency have prevented the widespread use of FPGA devices in embedded systems. Helping overcome these challenges, this book offers solutions for the development of energy efficient applications using FPGAs. It provides a framework for high-level hardware-software application development, describes energy performance modeling for reconfigurable system-on-chip devices, and explores energy efficient designs for various applications. The authors present a two-step rapid energy estimation technique that enables high-level design space exploration and offer a hardware-software design for energy efficient implementations of operating systems.

Rapid energy estimation for energy efficient applications using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) remains a challenging research topic. Energy dissipation and efficiency have prevented the widespread use of FPGA devices in embedded systems. Helping overcome these challenges, this book offers solutions for the development of energy efficient applications using FPGAs. It provides a framework for high-level hardware-software application development, describes energy performance modeling for reconfigurable system-on-chip devices, and explores energy efficient designs for various applications. The authors present a two-step rapid energy estimation technique that enables high-level design space exploration and offer a hardware-software design for energy efficient implementations of operating systems.

To conclude, modi?ed design and implementation of a middleware, NICAN, to dynamically supply local network information to distributed scienti?c app- cations was presented. The application provides adaptive capabilities, is n- intrusive, ?exible, easy to use and extensible. The distributed scienti?c appli- tion can use this tool for information collection to its advantage without s- stantial code instrumentation. References [1] D.Andersen,D.Bansal,D.Curtis,S.Seshan,andH.Balakrishnan. Systems- portforbandwidthmanagementandcontentadaptationininternetapplications. In Proceedings of 4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implemen- tion San Diego,CA.USENIXAssociation.:213-226,October2000. 555 [2] G.Chen.Providingdynamicnetworkinformationtodistributedapplications.May 2001. Computer Science Deparment, University of Minnesota Duluth. Master's Thesis. 559 [3] Xiaodong Fu, Weisong Shi, Anatoly Akkerman, and Vijay Karamcheti. Cans: Composable, adaptive network services infrastructure. In USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS),March2001. 555 [4] D.KulkarniandM.Sosonkina.Usingdynamicnetworkinformationtoimprove theruntimeperformanceofadistributedsparselinearsystemsolution.Technical ReportUMSI-2002-10,2002. 559 [5] DevdattaKulkarniandMashaSosonkina. Aframeworkforintegratingnetwork information intodistributediterative solution of sparse linearsystems. In P- ceedings of the 5th International Meeting of Vector and Parallel Processing, VEC- PAR'2002. 560 [6] Z.Li,Y.Saad,and M.Sosonkina. pARMS:Aparallel version of thealgebraic recursivemultilevelsolver. TechnicalReportUMSI-2001-100,MinnesotaSup- computerInstitute,UniversityofMinnesota,Minneapolis,MN,2001. 559 [7] B.Lowekamp,N.Miller,D.Sutherland,T.Gross,P.Steenkiste,andJ.Subhlok.

Message from the Steering Chair It was my pleasure to welcome attendees to the 10th International Conference on High-Performance Computing and to Hyderabad, an emerging center of IT activities in India. We are indebted to Timothy Pinkston for his superb e?orts as program chair in organizing an excellent technical program. We received a record number of submissions this year. Over the past year, I discussed the meeting details with Timothy. I am grateful to him for his thoughtful inputs. Many volunteers helped to organize the meeting. In addition, I was glad to welcome Rajesh Gupta as Keynote Chair, Atul Negi as Student Scholarships Chair, and Sushil Prasad as Proceedings Chair. I look forward to their cont- butions for the continued success of the meeting series. Sushil Prasad did an excellent job in bringing out these proceedings. Kamal Karlapalem assisted us with local arrangements at IIIT, Hyderabad. Dheeraj Sanghi took on the r- ponsibility of focussed publicity for the meeting within India. Vijay Keshav of Intel India, though not listed as a volunteer, provided me with many pointers for bringing the India-based high-performance computing vendors to the meeting.I would like to thank M. Vidyasagar for agreeing to host the meeting in Hyderabad and for his assistance with the local arrangements. Continuing the tradition set at last year's meeting, several workshops were organized by volunteers. These workshops were coordinated by C.P. Ravikumar. Healsovolunteeredtoputtogethertheworkshopproceedings,andSushilPrasad assisted him in this.

timely work, the quality of this program would not be as high nor would the process have run so smoothly. Ialsowishtothanktheothersupportingcastmemberswhohelpedinputtingtogether thisprogram,includingthosewhoorganizedthekeynotes,tutorials,workshops,awards, poster session, industrial track session, and those who performed the administrative functions that are essential to the success of this conference. The work of Sushil K. Prasad in putting together the conference proceedings is also acknowledged, as well as the support provided by Mathieu Jan and Sebastien ' Monnet, PhD students at IRISA, in maintaining the CyberChair online paper submission and evaluation software. Last, but certainly not least, I express heartfelt thanks to our General Co-chairs, Viktor Prasanna and Uday Shukla, and to the Vice-General Chair, David A. Bader, for all their useful advice. The preparation of this conference was unfortunately marked by a very sad and unexpectedevent:thesuddendemiseofDr.UdayShukla,whowasastrongsupporterof HiPC over the past ten years. He passed away on July 20, 2004 after a very brief illness. Dr. Shukla had been involved in organizing HiPC since the beginning.In addition to his encouragement in organizing HiPC, Dr. Shukla was a strong supporter of research activitiesincomputerscienceandinformationtechnologyinIndia.Wewillmissafriend of HiPC.

The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2005, held in Marina del Rey, California, USA in June/July 2005.The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions; also included are the abstracts of 3 invited talks, 2 short papers, 9 invited poster abstracts, and 10 contributed abstracts.The papers address all current aspects of distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems, including systematic design techniques and tools, algorithms, and applications.

to acknowledge the dedicated effort put forth by the Vice-Chairs: Michael A. Bender (Algorithms), Zhiwei Xu (Applications), Jose ' Duato (Architecture),M. Cristina Pinotti (Communication Networks), and Satoshi Matsuoka (System Software). Without their help and timely work, the quality of this program would not be as high nor would the process have run so smoothly. I thank the other organizers who have contributed to assembling this program, - cludingthose who organizedthe keynotes,tutorials, workshops,awards, poster session, industry exhibits, and those who performed the administrative functions that have been essential to the success of this conference. The work of Sushil K. Prasad in putting - gethertheconferenceproceedingsisalsoacknowledged,aswell asthesupportprovided by Kamesh Madduri and Vaddadi Chandu, Ph.D. students at Georgia Institute of Te- nology,and Vipin Sachdeva,M.S. student at the Universityof New Mexico, in assisting with the EDAS online paper submission and evaluation software. Last, but certainly not least, I express heart-felt thanks to our General Co-chairs, Manish Parashar and V.Sridhar; Steering Chair, Viktor Prasanna; and to the Vice-General Chair, Rajendra V. Boppana; for all their useful advice. Lastly, I thank the Conference General Co-chairs for allowing me to serve our c- munity as the Program Chair of this high-quality international conference. It has been my pleasure to correspond with so many of you, and I personally welcome you to Goa.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing, HiPC 2000, held in Bangalore, India in December 2000. The 46 revised papers presented together with five invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 127 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on system software, algorithms, high-performance middleware, applications, cluster computing, architecture, applied parallel processing, networks, wireless and mobile communication systems, and large scale data mining.

MessagefromtheGeneralCo-Chairs It is our pleasure to welcome you to the Eighth International Conference on High Performance Computing and to Hyderabad, a leading center for Infor- tionTechnologyinIndia.Thismessagepaystributetomanyvolunteerswho made this meeting possible. We are indebted to Professor Burkhard Monien for his superb e?orts as p- gramchairinorganizinganexcellenttechnicalprogram.Wewouldliketothank the vice chairs, Guang Gao, Allan Gottlieb, Bruce Maggs, Cauligi Raghavendra, and Horst Simon, for their e?orts in putting together a strong program comm- tee, who in turn reviewed the submissions and composed an excellent technical program.WewouldliketothankCauligiRaghavendraforhise?ortsinorga- zing the invited session on networks.Many volunteers have been associated with HiPC over the years, and they have continued their excellent service in organizing the meeting: Vipin Kumar invited the keynote speakers and coordinated the keynotes, Sartaj Sahni handled the poster/presentation session, Sandhya Dwarkadas and Tulika Mitra handled - blicity, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and her assistant Mario Espinoza interfaced with the authors and Springer-Verlag in bringing out these proceedings, Manav Misra put together the tutorials, Ajay Gupta did a ?ne job in handling inter- tional ?nancial matters, Dheeraj Sanghi administered scholarships for students from Indian academia, Sudheendra Hangal handled the exhibits with inputs from R.Govindarajan,SajalDasactedasvicegeneralchair,C.P.Ravikumarand Vinod Sanjay, though not listed in the announcements, managed publicity w- hin India. We would like to thank all of them for their time and e?orts. OurspecialthanksgotoA.K.P.Nambiarforhiscontinuede?ortsinhandling ?nancial matters as well as coordinating the activities within India.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing, HiPC'99, held in Calcutta, India in December 1999.The 20 revised full papers and 40 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on architecture/compilers, cluster computing, compilers and tools, scheduling, parallel algorithms, mobile computing, parallel applications, and interconnection networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, HiPC 2006, held in Bangalore, India, December 2006. Coverage in this volume includes scheduling and load balancing, network and distributed algorithms, application software, network services, ad-hoc networks, systems software, sensor networks and performance evaluation, as well as routing and data management algorithms.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, HiPC 2007, held in Goa, India, in December 2007. The 53 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of five keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 253 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on a broad range of applications including I/O and FPGAs, and microarchitecture and multiprocessor architecture.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, HiPC 2008, held in Bangalore, India, in December 2008. The 46 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 5 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 317 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications performance optimizazion, parallel algorithms and applications, scheduling and resource management, sensor networks, energy-aware computing, distributed algorithms, communication networks as well as architecture.