A software environment for general purpose MIMD multiprocessors

Author

Moona, Rajat ; Rajaraman, V.

Author_Institution

Supercomput. Educ. & Res. Center, Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India

fYear

1989

fDate

22-24 Nov 1989

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

101

Abstract

A software environment for general purpose multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD) machines based on packet switched message passing paradigms is described. The environment provides system calls for communication between various processing elements in the machine and system calls to get the configuration of the system. It assumes the presence of a host processor through which facilities are provided for forking remote processes on various processing elements. The host processor has all the peripherals of the system and acts as an I/O processor of the system. During the normal course of execution, it forks processes, collects results from various processing elements, sequences them and then produces the output of the program

Keywords

multiprocessing programs; multiprocessing systems; packet switching; parallel programming; I/O processor; general purpose MIMD multiprocessors; host processor; multiple instruction multiple data; packet switched message passing paradigms; process forking; processing elements; software environment; system calls; Communication switching; Computer architecture; Hardware; Message passing; Multiprocessing systems; Packet switching; Parallel processing; Program processors; Programming profession; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '89. Fourth IEEE Region 10 International Conference

Conference_Location

Bombay

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1989.176904

Filename

176904