Title :
B-HIVE: hardware and software for an experimental multiprocessor
Author :
Agrawal, Dharma P. ; Alexander, Winser E. ; Gehringer, Edward F. ; Mauney, Jon ; Miller, Thomas K.
Author_Institution :
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
Abstract :
B-HIVE, a 24-node experimental multiprocessor computer, is based on a generalized hypercube interconnection structure and features two processors at each node: one to perform application processing and the other to handle communication. The design of the B-HIVE hardware and software is intended to keep run-time overhead to a minimum, and thus provide high performance on a variety of problems, especially signal and image processing. Topics addressed include the B-HIVE multicomputer architecture and node structure, interprocessor communication, software support, and project status
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; parallel processing; 24-node experimental multiprocessor computer; B-HIVE; application processing; generalized hypercube interconnection structure; hardware; high performance; image processing; interprocessor communication; multicomputer architecture; node structure; project status; run-time overhead; signal processing; software support; Application software; Computer science; Coupling circuits; Data communication; Hardware; Hypercubes; Packet switching; Protocols; Signal design; Spine;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1990., Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kailua-Kona, HI
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1990.205097
