DocumentCode :
273249
Title :
Benchmarking parallel architectures
Author :
Roberts, J.B.G. ; Merrifield, B.C. ; Simpson, P. ; Ward, J.S.
Author_Institution :
Royal Signals & Radar Establ., Malvern, UK
fYear :
1988
fDate :
11-15 Apr 1988
Firstpage :
134
Lastpage :
138
Abstract :
In the developing world of parallel processing, there is a fundamental reason for benchmarking. The prime motivation for parallelism is better exploitation of VLSI technology and the role of benchmarking is wider than mere customer evaluation: it is needed to guide the improvement of parallel machines and the genesis of new parallel architectures. The author looks at the problems of benchmarking parallel architectures, and evaluates two strongly differentiated parallel architectures for evaluation (i) the SIMD processor array Mil-DAP, developed jointly by ICL and RSRE from the ICL Distributed Array Processor (DAP) (now re-designed as the AMT DAP-500, which is 1.4 times faster than Mil-DAP), and (ii) networks of T414 Transputers, including a Meiko computing surface and prototypes of the reconfigurable RTP machine
Keywords :
computer testing; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; Mil-DAP; SIMD processor array; T414 Transputers; benchmarking; parallel architectures; parallel processing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
iet
Conference_Titel :
Design and Application of Parallel Digital Processors, 1988., International Specialist Seminar on the
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-366-1
Type :
conf
Filename :
10374
Link To Document :
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