FFTs on mesh connected computers

  • Authors:
  • Francisco Argüello;Margarita Amor;Emilio L. Zapata

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Electrónica y Computación, Facultad de Físicas, Universidad de Santiago, 15706 Santiago, Spain;Departamento de Electrónica y Computación, Facultad de Físicas, Universidad de Santiago, 15706 Santiago, Spain;Departamento de Arquitectura de Ordenadores, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Parallel Computing
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The most effective use of mesh connected computers is achieved by paying careful attention to the organization of the storage and movement of data. For an important class of algorithms the formalization of the different operations they perform lead to an unified treatment for them and may result in important simplifications. In this work we apply this point of view to the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). In particular, we present a unified view of a set of FFT algorithms on mesh connected computers with non-shared memory. To this end we use a combination of two techniques, 'mapping vector' and index-digit permutations, which allow us to define the organization of the storage and movement of data for any FFT algorithm whose radix is a power of 2. The methodology we have employed is general and can be applied to other algorithms obtained through the divide and conquer strategy.