Title :
The Connection Machine model CM-1 architecture
Author :
Kahle, Brewster A. ; Hillis, W. Daniel
Author_Institution :
Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
An examination is presented of the performance of the Connection Machine model CM-1 system, a general-purpose computer capable of adapting to many sizes and types of data sets. An overview of the hardware and software systems is provided and a simple application is presented from which the raw performance of the machine is examined. This illustrates the power of data-level parallelism and indicates how CM-1 performance is enhanced by the use of virtual processors and variable word size. The CM-1 system consists of a 64000 processor array, from one to four front-end computers, and high-speed peripherals such as disks and image devices
Keywords :
parallel architectures; parallel machines; performance evaluation; 64000 processor array; CM-1 architecture; CM-1 performance; Connection Machine; data-level parallelism; front-end computers; general-purpose computer; high-speed peripherals; variable word size; virtual processors; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Communication system control; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Parallel processing; Supercomputers; Switches;
Journal_Title :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on
