HTML version of Scripted Foils prepared 18 Sept 1995

Foil 33 Parallel Computer Architecture Issues

From Second set of lectures on CPS615 Parallel Computing Overview CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 Two critical Issues are:
2 Memory Structure
  • Distributed
  • Shared
  • Cached
3 and Heterogeneous mixtures
4 Control and synchronization
5 SIMD -lockstep synchronization
6 MIMD -synchronization can take several forms
  • Simplest: program controlled message passing
  • "Flags" in memory - typical shared memory construct
  • Special hardware - as in cache and its coherency (coordination between nodes)
Table Font Size

© Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Fri Aug 15 1997