Ultracomputers

  • Authors:
  • Jacob T. Schwartz

  • Affiliations:
  • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

A class of parallel processors potentially involving thousands of individual processing elements is described. The architecture is based on the perfect shuffle connection and has two favorable characteristics: (1) Each processor communicates with a fixed number of other processors. (2) Important communication functions can be accomplished in time proportional to the logarithm of the number of processors. A number of basic algorithms for these “ultracomputers” are presented, and physical design considerations are discussed in a preliminary fashion.