Rugged Embedded Systems: Computing in Harsh Environments describes how to design reliable embedded systems for harsh environments, including architectural approaches, cross-stack hardware/software techniques, and emerging challenges and opportunities. A "harsh environment" presents inherent characteristics, such as extreme temperature and radiation levels, very low power and energy budgets, strict fault tolerance and security constraints, etc. that challenge the computer system in its design and operation. To guarantee proper execution (correct, safe, and low-power) in such scenarios, this contributed work discusses multiple layers that involve firmware, operating systems, and applications, as well as power management units and communication interfaces. This book also incorporates use cases in the domains of unmanned vehicles (advanced cars and micro aerial robots) and space exploration as examples of computing designs for harsh environments.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2019, held in Hohhot, China, in August 2019. The 22 full and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: graph computing; NOC and networks; neural networks; big data and cloud; HPC; emerging topics; memory and file system.