Paper Info
Title
An initial evaluation of the Convex SPP-1000 for earth and space science applications.
Abstract
The Convex SPP-1000, the most recent SPC. is distinguished by a true global shared memory capability based on the first commercial version of directory based cache coherence mechanisms and SCI protocol. The system was evaluated at NASA/GSFC in the Beta-test environment using three classes of operational experiments targeting Earth and space science applications. A multiple program workload tested job-stream level parallelism. Synthetic pro-grams measured overhead costs of barrier; fork-join, and message passing synchronization primitives. An efficient tree-code version of an N-body simulation revealed scaling properties and measured the overall effcienct This paper presents the results of this study and provides the earliest published evaluation of this new scalable architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1016/0167-739X(95)00025-N
Future Generation Comp. Syst.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
sci,job-stream level parallelism,beta-test environment,new scalable architecture,space science application,shared memory,cache coherence,commercial version,convex exemplar,cache coherence mechanism,n-body simulation,multiple program workload,spp-1000,performance evaluation,space science applications,sci protocol,efficient tree-code version,convex spp-1000,initial evaluation,parallel computer,n body simulation,concurrent computing,synchronisation,parallel processing,protocols,earth,message passing,ring network,geoscience,solar system,high performance computing,fork join,hardware
Conference
11
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
6
Future Generation Computer Systems
0-8186-6445-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
1.48
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Lawrence Sterling141.82
Daniel Savarese237862.16
Phillip R. Merkey341.48
Jeffrey P. Gardner41219.54