Title :
System and application software for the Armstrong multiprocessor
Author :
Rayfield, James T. ; Silverman, Harvey F.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Eng., Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA
fDate :
6/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors identify problems with present parallel processing systems, and present Armstrong, a hardware-software system that is designed to address some of the problems discussed. They briefly describe the Armstrong hardware and discuss, in depth, the operating system software, and performance of the system on a real application, namely, and computation of the 2-D discrete Fourier transform of an image.<>
Keywords :
computerised picture processing; operating systems (computers); parallel machines; parallel programming; 2-D discrete Fourier transform; Armstrong multiprocessor; application software; image; operating system software; parallel processing systems; performance; system software; Application software; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Message passing; Multiprocessing systems; Parallel processing; Programming profession; Time measurement; Topology;
