Title :
Architecture and realization of the modular expandable multiprocessor system MEMSY
Author :
Cin, M. Dal ; Hohl, W. ; Dalibor, S. ; Eckert, T. ; Grygier, A. ; Hessenauer, H. ; Hildebrand, U. ; Honig, J. ; Hofmann, F. ; Inster, C. U L ; Michel, E. ; Pataricza, Andras ; Sieh, V. ; Thiel, T. ; Turowski, S.
Author_Institution :
IMMD III, Erlangen-Nurnberg Univ., Germany
Abstract :
The experimental multiprocessor system MEMSY is described. This system was built to validate the concept of a scalable multiprocessor architecture based on local shared-memory. Main application areas are scientific computations with high demand for processing power and memory capacity. In designing the hardware architecture the extensive use of standard components and fault tolerance were prerequisites. The programming model of MEMSY is custom made reflecting its true hardware structure whereas the operating system is a Unix extension
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; multiprocessing programs; reconfigurable architectures; shared memory systems; MEMSY; MIMD; Unix; fault tolerance; local shared-memory; memory capacity; modular expandable multiprocessor system; operating system; processing power; programming model; scalable multiprocessor architecture; scientific computations; Application software; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Multiprocessing systems; Operating systems; Power engineering and energy; Power system modeling; Quantum computing; Scalability; Vector processors;
Conference_Titel :
Massively Parallel Computing Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the First International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ischia
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6322-7
DOI :
10.1109/MPCS.1994.367021
