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Foil 100 Parallel Computer Architecture Control Structure

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
SIMD -lockstep synchronization
  • Each processor executes same instruction stream
MIMD - Each Processor executes independent instruction streams
MIMD Synchronization can take several forms
  • Simplest: program controlled message passing
  • "Flags" (barriers,semaphores) in memory - typical shared memory construct as in locks seen in Java Threads
  • Special hardware - as in cache and its coherency (coordination between nodes)

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