Performance evaluation of configurable arrays with mesh interconnections and wormhole routing /

a major influence on cost and performance. Different

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krishnamoorthy, Deviusha, 1974-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:a major influence on cost and performance. Different
a parallel system is very expensive, and hence, we need
average message latency and the read and the write stall
comparison of the results with the original mesh
configuration must take place to map their domains. Building
differ significantly from the original mesh. However, the
embedclings with different logical configurations and
embeddings are shown to provide similar performance to the
embeddings exist for mapping their configurations. In this
height-width ratio of the rectangular grid affects the
hypercube, etc. If the logical domain of a problem does not
interconnection network are discussed. Execution times of
interconnection network with a fixed number of processors.
is closer to unity. However, it is also shown that
Large scale multiprocessors are built on a particular
map to the physical configuration of the system,
mesh interconnection network. Three different embeddings
obtained through an execution driven simulation. The
original mesh when the rectangular grid's height-width ratio
performance of the embeddings in all other cases doesn't
solutions which allow to solve such problems on existing
systems instead of designing a whole new system. The
techniques are presented. Performance analysis of
The interconnections are based on topologies like mesh,
thesis, embeddings are analyzed using real applications on a
times for all applications.
topology defined by processors and their interconnections has
various applications (with and without the embeddings) are
Item Description:"Major subject: Computer Science".
Vita.
Physical Description:ix, 51 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 45-47.