Deterministic Simulations of Prams on Bounded Degree Networks

  • Authors:
  • Kieran T. Herley;Gianfranco Bilardi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The problem of simulating a PRAM with $n$ processors and memory size $m \geq n$ on an $n$-node bounded degree network is considered. A deterministic algorithm is presented that simulates an arbitrary PRAM step in $O((\log n \log m)/\log \log n)$ time in the worst case on an expander-based network. By extending a previously established lower bound, it is shown that the proposed simulation is optimal whenever $\Omega(n^{1 + \epsilon}) \leq m \leq O(2^{(\log n)^{\alpha}})$ for some positive real constants $\epsilon$ and $\alpha$.