Practical parallelism using transputer arrays

  • D. J. Pritchard
  • C. R. Askew
  • D. B. Carpenter
  • I. Glendinning
  • A. J. G. Hey
  • D. A. Nicole
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 258)

Abstract

This paper explores methods for extracting parallelism from a wide variety of numerical applications. We investigate communications overheads and load-balancing for networks of transputers. After a discussion of some practical strategies for constructing occam programs, two case studies are analysed in detail.

Keywords

Communication Overhead Processor Array Host Processor Communication Load Geometric Parallelism 
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987

Authors and Affiliations

  • D. J. Pritchard
    • 1
  • C. R. Askew
    • 1
  • D. B. Carpenter
    • 1
  • I. Glendinning
    • 1
  • A. J. G. Hey
    • 1
  • D. A. Nicole
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of PhysicsUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonUnited Kingdom

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