Paper Info
Title
Extending PVM to a massively parallel architecture.
Abstract
Heterogeneous computing is one of the key issues for reaching high performances with limited costs. In this area, PVM is a wide-spread programming environment supported by a collection of architectures, ranging from Unix workstations to various kinds of parallel machines. We have enriched this set of architectures with the Meiko Computing Surface, a multicomputer architecture based on the transputer technology. The paper describes how the porting has been implemented. The resulting environment allows a user to distribute any application partly on ‘traditional’ PVM nodes, and partly on transputer ones. The advantages deriving from the inclusion of the Meiko Computing Surface in the PVM environment are particularly evident with fine-grained parallel applications: as an example, we show the experimental results obtained for a computational vision application.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1016/0167-739X(96)84676-0
Future Generation Comp. Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
porting,transputer,heterogeneous computing,pvm,extending pvm,parallel architecture,computer vision
Architecture,Virtual machine,Data transmission,Transputer,Computer science,Parallel computing,Symmetric multiprocessor system,Ranging,Software portability,Porting,Operating system,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
Future Generation Computer Systems
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. Ciampolini131.74
C. Stefanelli2846.68