Experiments with a gigabit neuroscience application on the CM-2

Author

Kwan, Thomas T. ; Terstriep, Jerstriep A.

Author_Institution

Nat. Center for Supercomput. Applications, Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

15-19 Nov. 1993

Firstpage

133

Lastpage

142

Abstract

To help evaluate the supercomputers, the authors selected a computational neuroscience simulation program that has a bandwidth requirement in excess of 1.5 Gb/s. The simulation runs on the Thinking Machines CM-2 and the target visualization engine is the Convex C3880. The authors benchmarked the various operations required to transmit data from the CM-2 to the Convex C3880. The results show that the parallel to serial data transformation operation on the CM-2 and the network interfaces are the major bottlenecks.

Keywords

data visualisation; multiprocessing systems; neural nets; parallel programming; performance evaluation; Convex C3880; Thinking Machines CM-2; bandwidth requirement; benchmarking; computational neuroscience simulation program; gigabit neuroscience application; network interfaces; parallel to serial data transformation; supercomputers; target visualization engine; Bandwidth; Computer graphics; Data visualization; High performance computing; High-speed networks; Neuroscience; Performance evaluation; Supercomputers; Testing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '93. Proceedings

ISSN

1063-9535

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4340-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1993.1263434

Filename

1263434