Functional parallelism may be supported on SIMD machines by interpretation. The programs and data of each function are loaded on the processing elements (PEs), and the control unit of the machine executes a central control algorithm that causes the concurrent interpretation of these functions. The p
Applications of MIMD machines
โ Scribed by B.L. Buzbee
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 500 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-4655
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โฆ Synopsis
Parallel processing via the application of MIMD machines offers the promise of high performance, and experience with parallel processing is accumulating rapidly. This paper briefly surveys recent results from three classes of MIMD machinesshared memory systems, non-shared memory systems, and a dataflow system. This data confirms that rapid progress is being made in the application of MIMD machines and that parallel processing can yield high performance. It also confirms that major research issues remain to be addressed.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The need to run large, compute-bound programs encountered in research, coupled with the high availability of mini-and microcomputers in the laboratory environment, has prompted the linking of independent processors to form multicomputer systems. Important characteristics of the system presented here