Title :
Parallel efficiency: the dataflow advantage
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia
Abstract :
Dataflow computation models enable simpler and more efficient management of the memory hierarchy - a key barrier to the performance of many parallel programs. This paper enumerates some advantages of using the dataflow model; it argues that the programming model is simple and easily managed by a programmer and demonstrates some of the efficiencies that the dataflow model allows an underlying run-time system to achieve
Keywords :
data flow computing; parallel algorithms; parallel programming; sorting; computation models; dataflow; parallel algorithm; parallel efficiency; parallel programs; sorting; Concurrent computing; Costs; Data engineering; Hardware; Information processing; Intelligent systems; Memory management; Parallel processing; Programming profession; Software maintenance;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, 1999. (I-SPAN '99) Proceedings. Fourth InternationalSymposium on
Conference_Location :
Perth/Fremantle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0231-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISPAN.1999.778964
