Design issues and the system architecture of TICOM-IV, a highly parallel commercial computer

Author

Kim, Yang-Woo ; Oh, Sei-Woong ; Park, Jin-Won

Author_Institution

Comput. Div. ETRI, Taejon, South Korea

fYear

1995

fDate

25-27 Jan 1995

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

226

Abstract

We describe design issues and preliminary considerational factors for highly parallel commercial computer design. The design issues described in this paper include application area analysis, scalability, availability, network topology and memory hierarchy. We explain how these issues are related to each other and how they affect the system performance. We then describe the system architecture of TICOM-IV, a highly parallel commercial computer, and show how the design issues and the trade-offs are taken into consideration in the course of the system design. Then the architectural model is simulated in order to optimize the system performance. The simulation result shows that TICOM-IV has good performance scalability. This paper also includes some findings in the development trend for parallel computer systems from a survey of 11 commercialized parallel computers

Keywords

parallel architectures; parallel machines; performance evaluation; reconfigurable architectures; virtual machines; TICOM-IV; area analysis; availability; highly parallel commercial computer; memory hierarchy; network topology; parallel commercial computer design; performance scalability; scalability; system architecture; system design; system performance; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Decision support systems; Electronic equipment testing; Multiprocessing systems; Parallel processing; Scalability; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1995. Proceedings. Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Remo

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7031-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.1995.389139

Filename

389139