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

fYear

1994

fDate

2-6 May 1994

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

15

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Massively Parallel Computing Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ischia

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6322-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPCS.1994.367021

Filename

367021