Title :
On the power of segmenting and fusing buses
Author :
Thiruchelvan, R.K. ; Trahan, Jerry L. ; Vaidyanathan, R.
Author_Institution :
Advance Paradigms Inc., Alexandria, VA, USA
Abstract :
The authors investigate communication among synchronous parallel processors through a new model of parallel computation called the reconfigurable multiple bus machine (RMBM). Four versions of the RMBM are introduced. In these models processors communicate over buses and possess varying abilities to segment and/or fuse buses. A hierarchy of the versions of the RMBM and the PRAM based on their relative `powers´ is established, indicating the relative contribution of segmenting and fusing buses
Keywords :
parallel architectures; reconfigurable architectures; system buses; PRAM; fusing buses; parallel computation; reconfigurable multiple bus machine; segmenting; synchronous parallel processors; Automata; Communication switching; Communication system control; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Fuses; Lead; Phase change random access memory; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Symposium, 1993., Proceedings of Seventh International
Conference_Location :
Newport, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3442-1
DOI :
10.1109/IPPS.1993.262859
