The ETH-Multiprocessor Empress: A Dynamically Configurable MIMD System

Author

Buehrer, Richard E. ; Brundiers, Hans-joerg ; Benz, Hans ; Bron, Bernard ; Friess, Hansmartin ; Haelg, Walter ; Halin, Hans Juergen ; Isacson, Anders ; Tadian, Milan

Author_Institution

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH

Issue

11

fYear

1982

Firstpage

1035

Lastpage

1044

Abstract

The MIMD multiprocessor EMPRESS (ETH-Multiprocessor) to be described was built in order to study the performance of MIMD architectures in general, and particularly in the field of simulation problems. By means of a dynamically configurable architecture in combination with a powerful processor intercommunication principle, the system is able to handle two-stage parallelism: several independent subtasks with inherent parallelism can be run simultaneously. This concept incorporates features of a quite general nature allowing in principle the implementation of other software.

Keywords

Computer architecture; EMPRESS; MIMD processors; PSCSP; digital simulation; dynamic architecture; parallel computation; parallel processors; Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Costs; Differential equations; Digital simulation; Hardware; Microprocessors; Parallel processing; Software packages; Computer architecture; EMPRESS; MIMD processors; PSCSP; digital simulation; dynamic architecture; parallel computation; parallel processors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computers, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9340

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TC.1982.1675920

Filename

1675920