• DocumentCode
    1696831
  • Title

    Design and Evaluation of a Multiprocessor Architecture with Decentralized Control

  • Author

    Chung, Hsiao-Chen ; Wu, Chuan-lin ; Rakes, James ; Zievers, Peter J. ; Lin, Yin-Kuan

  • Author_Institution
    The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1994
  • Firstpage
    97
  • Lastpage
    100
  • Abstract
    This paper presents design and evaluation of a decentralized control mechanism of a variable-topology (phase-reconfigurable) multiprocessor architecture. We design and implement an active crossbar communication processor(XCP) which encodes a set of communication instructions. The new interconnection network approach provides an apt phase-reconfiguration method. The new method is distributed in nature and does not require a global control bus that is a time consuming feature as verified in many existing systems. A conjugate-gradient algorithm for solving a linear system equations is used to perform evaluation and comparison.
  • Keywords
    Broadcasting; Communication switching; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Delay; Distributed control; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Network synthesis; Parallel processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel Processing, 1994. Vol. 1. ICPP 1994. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    North Carolina State University, NC, USA
  • ISSN
    0190-3918
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8493-2493-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPP.1994.87
  • Filename
    4115700