• DocumentCode
    2346679
  • Title

    Multiprocessor architectures and physical law

  • Author

    Vitányi, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    17-20 Nov 1994
  • Firstpage
    24
  • Lastpage
    29
  • Abstract
    We show that all highly symmetrical interconnection topologies for multiprocessors with low diameter require very long interconnect lengths. Therefore, such multicomputers do not scale well in the physical world with 3 dimensions. On the other hand, highly irregular (random) interconnection topologies have a very large subgraph of diameter two and therefore also require very long interconnect lengths. Hence the only scaling topologies for future massively parallel computers are high diameter regular ones, like mesh networks. The techniques used are symmetry properties in terms of orbits of automorphism groups of graphs, and a modern notion of randomness of individual objects, Kolmogorov complexity
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; multiprocessing systems; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; Kolmogorov complexity; automorphism groups; future massively parallel computers; highly irregular interconnection topologies; highly symmetrical interconnection topologies; long interconnect lengths; low diameter; mesh networks; multicomputers; multiprocessor architectures; physical law; randomness; scaling topologies; symmetry properties; Algorithm design and analysis; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Costs; Distributed computing; Mesh networks; Network topology; Orbits; Wires;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Physics and Computation, 1994. PhysComp '94, Proceedings., Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Dallas, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-6715-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHYCMP.1994.363703
  • Filename
    363703