• DocumentCode
    1528064
  • 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
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    6/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    38
  • Lastpage
    52
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/2.949
  • Filename
    949