A Large Scale, Homogenous, Fully Distributed Parallel Machine, II

  • Authors:
  • Herbert Sullivan;Theodore R. Bashkow;David Klappholz

  • Affiliations:
  • Sullivan Associates, 200 West 79th Street, New York, N.Y.;Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, New York;Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, New York

  • Venue:
  • ISCA '77 Proceedings of the 4th annual symposium on Computer architecture
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

The present paper complements the hardware proposal for a fully distributed parallel processor presented in “A Large Scale, Homogeneous, Fully Distributed Parallel Machine, I,” by describing a suitable software structure for its operating system management. It is shown that the most basic operating system functions can be performed on a purely local basis, i.e. in such a fashion that identical pieces of the operating systems are concurrently executed by each of the processing elements.