Paradigm; A highly scalable shared-memory multicomputer architecture
- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (US)
- Digital Equipment Corp. (US)
Paradigm (parallel distributed global memory) is a shared-memory multicomputer architecture that is being developed to show that one can build a large-scale machine using high-performance microprocessors. The Paradigm architecture allows a parallel application program to execute any of its tasks on any processor in the machine, with all the tasks in a single address space. There are many different nonshared-memory parallel machine architectures. Some were created in response to the perceived difficulty of building scalable high-performance shared-memory multiprocessors. The diversity of architectures has fragmented the efforts to develop parallel applications, languages, and operating systems support, limiting the portability of the resulting software and generally impeding the development of a strong base of parallel software. The authors believe that parallel software efforts should focus on shared-memory architectures because they are easy to program and compatible with standard programming languages and systems. Also, shared-memory multiprocessors are becoming the dominant architecture for small-scale parallel computation.
- OSTI ID:
- 5533695
- Journal Information:
- Computer; (USA), Journal Name: Computer; (USA) Vol. 24:2; ISSN 0018-9162; ISSN CPTRB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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