A distributed environment for hypercube computing

Author

Jwo, Jung-Sing ; Chang, Shi-Sen ; Chen, Yi-Cheng ; Hsu, D. Frank

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Tunghai Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

fYear

1997

fDate

17-21 Mar 1997

Firstpage

256

Lastpage

263

Abstract

Proposes a distributed computing environment, called the Virtual Cube (VC), to support arbitrarily large binary hypercube computing on a cluster of homogeneous workstations that are interconnected by an Ethernet LAN. The embedding concept between binary hypercube parallel architectures is introduced, and the concept of a cluster of computers interconnected through a computer network. In VC, a SIMD parallel language called VCPL (VC Parallel Language) is provided. The advantages of the VC system are that (a) it can be considered as a practical and economical binary hypercube machine, and (b) it brings parallel solutions on a binary hypercube directly into distributed applications. Currently, a VC prototype is implemented on NeXT workstations

Keywords

hypercube networks; inter-computer links; local area networks; parallel architectures; parallel languages; parallel machines; virtual machines; workstations; Ethernet LAN; NeXT workstations; SIMD parallel language; VCPL; Virtual Cube; binary hypercube parallel architectures; distributed computing environment; embedding concept; homogeneous workstation cluster; hypercube computing; interconnected computers; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Ethernet networks; Hypercubes; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Parallel architectures; Parallel languages; Virtual colonoscopy; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Algorithms/Architecture Synthesis, 1997. Proceedings., Second Aizu International Symposium

Conference_Location

Aizu-Wakamatsu

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7870-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AISPAS.1997.581674

Filename

581674