BBN TC2000 architecture and programming models

The BBN TC2000 is a scalable general-purpose parallel architecture capable of efficiently supporting both shared memory and message passing programming paradigms. The TC2000 machine architecture and the programming models that have been implemented on it are described. In particular, the split-join model, its memory model, and the message passing model are described. Specifics on how the implementation of these models take advantage of the architecture are included. The synchronization primitives offered in PCP (parallel C processor) and PFP (parallel Fortran preprocessor) are discussed, the debugging and performance monitoring abilities within the models are considered. The time and space scheduling mechanism used on the machine is described.<>