ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Some Deadlock Properties of Computer Systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A Survey of Some Theoretical Aspects of Multiprocessing
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Synchronization of communicating processes
Communications of the ACM
A view of computer architecture
Communications of the ACM
Computer Modules: An architecture for large digital modules
ISCA '73 Proceedings of the 1st annual symposium on Computer architecture
An experimental implementation of the kernel/domain architecture
SOSP '73 Proceedings of the fourth ACM symposium on Operating system principles
Deterministic and adaptive routing policies in packet-switched computer networks
DATACOMM '73 Proceedings of the third ACM symposium on Data communications and Data networks: Analysis and design
Computer network development to achieve resource sharing
AFIPS '70 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 5-7, 1970, spring joint computer conference
A new minicomputer/multiprocessor for the ARPA network
AFIPS '73 Proceedings of the June 4-8, 1973, national computer conference and exposition
An Expression Model for Extraction and Evaluation of Parallelism in Control Structures
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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The advent of the microprocessor has opened up new avenues for the system designer to provide more powerful, more reliable and more user oriented computer systems to the user community for the same or lower costs. The problem confronting the designer is: How to achieve these goals? This paper describes one such method called Distributed Function Multiple Processor (DFMP). The system described uses several micro processors each with its own memory to form a cluster. These processors are differentiated by the functions they perform such as file managing, intelligent terminal, etc. and communicate via a Restricted Cross Bar Switch (RCBS). Further, several clusters or nodes can be linked to form a local network. Interprocessor and internode communications are controlled by a special processor called the Interprocessor Controller (PC) located in each node. The IPC's use an adaptive technique to determine traffic flows.