Design, analysis, and simulation of I/O architectures for hypercube multiprocessors

Author

Reddy, A. L Narasimha ; Banerjee, Prithviraj

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

1

Issue

2

fYear

1990

fDate

4/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

140

Lastpage

151

Abstract

Several issues concerning the design of an I/O (input/output) system for a multiprocessor such as a hypercube are examined. A methodology is proposed for connecting the I/O processors to such a system for efficient I/O access. The effect of I/O communication on the multiprocessor network is analyzed. Different disk organizations that can be employed within such a system are evaluated to see which organization has a better performance. It is observed that parallelism in serving an I/O request plays a dominant role in the scientific workload. The problem of mapping specific data structures such as matrices onto the disks so that the data can be accessed efficiently is considered

Keywords

memory architecture; multiprocessing systems; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; I/O access; I/O architectures; data structures; disk organizations; hypercube multiprocessors; matrices; multiprocessor network; parallelism; scientific workload; Analytical models; Concurrent computing; Data structures; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Hypercubes; Joining processes; Message passing; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/71.80142

Filename

80142