Programming three parallel computers

Three commercial systems are considered from a programmer's point of view. The three are the Intel iPSC, a network of Inmos transputers, and the Sequent Balance. The differences in overhead are examined by implementing a solution to the traveling-salesman problem on all three. The evaluation fo...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 11 - 22
Main Authors Kallstrom, M., Thakkar, S.S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.01.1988
IEEE Computer Society
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Communication
Computers
Concurrent computing
Hypercubes
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Magnetic heads
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Parallel processing
Parallel programming
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Summary:Three commercial systems are considered from a programmer's point of view. The three are the Intel iPSC, a network of Inmos transputers, and the Sequent Balance. The differences in overhead are examined by implementing a solution to the traveling-salesman problem on all three. The evaluation focuses on three major issues in parallel programming: (1) how execution is divided among processing elements and how it is controlled; (2) how data are shared; and (3) how events are synchronized. The experiences of the authors are presented and some specific as well as general conclusions are drawn.< >
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/52.1990