Title :
Experiences with the BBN Butterfly
Author :
Mellor-Crummey, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Rochester Univ., NY, USA
fDate :
Feb. 29 1988-March 3 1988
Abstract :
Collective experience using the BBN Butterfly Parallel Processor, a shared-memory multiprocessor built around a scalable high-bandwidth switching network is described. An overview of the Butterfly hardware, run-time library is given. While the Butterfly provides a high performance testbed for parallel processing research, it has been found that its lack of a file system and a strong development environment make program development difficult.<>
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; BBN Butterfly Parallel Processor; program development; run-time library; shared-memory multiprocessor; switching network; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Coprocessors; File systems; Hardware; Operating systems; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Random access memory; Read-write memory;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '88. Thirty-Third IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0828-5
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1988.4839
