A parallel computer model supporting procedure-based communication

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey X. Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • Allied-Signal Aerospace Technology Center, 0140 Old Annapolis Road, Columbia, Maryland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1990 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

Procedure-based communication can convert variant communication patterns of parallel computation to a simple data sending and receiving process. This paper describes a general purpose, MIMD parallel architecture that effectively supports the procedure-based communication. The system uses a two-dimensional memory array and a multiple bus system as data transfer media. The system eliminates bus contention and reduces memory access conflicts. In spite of its partially shared memory, the architecture guarantees direct data access for all processors if a procedure-based communication is employed.