Building reliable, high-performance communication systems from components

High Performance Commercial Building Systems

The application of model-based performance assessment at the whole building level is explored. The information requirements for a simulation to predict the actual performance of a particular real building, as opposed to estimating the impact of design options, are addressed with particular attention to common sources of input error and important deficiencies in most simulation models. The role ...

Building High Performance & Highly Available Systems

Over the past 15 years I have been involved in the development of several performance critical and highly available systems for telecommunications, process control, securities trading, and satellite management. All these systems have the goal of reaching at least 99.999% availability. In addition, they all have elements that require high performance. Some of these systems have pieces with hard ...

The Reliable Router: A Reliable and High-Performance Communication Substrate for Parallel Computers

The Reliable Router (RR) is a network switching element targeted to two-dimensional mesh interconnection network topologies. It is designed to run at 100 MHz and reach a useful link bandwidth of 3.2 Gbit/sec. The Reliable Router uses adaptive routing coupled with link-level retransmission and a unique-token protocol to increase both performance and reliability. The RR can handle a single node o...

Building Components from Functions

In the domain of embedded software systems the increasing complexity of the functionality as well as the increase in variations caused by product lines requires a modular design process, separating function-based and component-based design. As a consequence, functional integration becomes a central task in the development process, to avoid unforeseen interaction. While currently functional inte...

Reliable and High-Performance Architecture for Nanoscale Integrated Systems