An associative communication network for fine and large grain dataflow

Author

Strohschneider, J. ; Klauer, B. ; Waldschmidt, K.

Author_Institution

Technische Inf., J.W. Goethe Univ., Frankfurt am Main, Germany

fYear

1995

fDate

25-27 Jan 1995

Firstpage

324

Lastpage

331

Abstract

The Associative Communication Network consists of a crossbar switch melted with a distributed associative memory. The network supports the design of scalable multiprocessor systems with low programming effort for communication. Information between the processors is automatically routed by the network. Based on the Associative Communication Network the Associative Dataflow Architecture ADARC has been developed and implemented. ADARC supports fine grain as well as large grain parallelism. The ADARC architecture has been implemented based on standard off-the-shelf components and an ASIC for the Communication Network. Programming tools are currently under development. This paper is focused on the Associative Communication Network. It furthermore contains a summary on ADARC, a description of the programming method, and reports on the hardware implementation

Keywords

associative processing; content-addressable storage; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; ADARC; Associative Dataflow Architecture; associative communication network; crossbar switch; distributed associative memory; fine grain dataflow; hardware implementation; large grain dataflow; Application specific integrated circuits; Communication networks; Communication switching; Communication system control; Delay; Multiprocessing systems; Parallel processing; Space technology; Switches; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1995. Proceedings. Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Remo

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7031-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.1995.389191

Filename

389191