PASM parallel processing system: design, simulation, and image-processing applications. (Volumes I and II)

Thesis/Dissertation · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6664284

Kuehn, J T

Advances in device and packaging technologies are producing incremental gains in the performance of computer systems. However, these gains are being more than offset by new applications having a need to process large data sets, a need for real-time computation, or other requirements which make them prohibitively expensive to perform on conventional computer systems. This has forced computer architects to consider parallel/distributed computer designs. Among the variety of high-performance architectures that have been proposed or constructed, there is one common characteristic: the use of parallelism. This thesis outlines the design of a flexible parallel processing system, PASM, that can be dynamically reconfigured to meet the particular needs of a large variety of image, signal, and vector processing applications. PASM operates in two modes of parallelism: single instruction stream - multiple data stream (SIMD) mode and multiple instruction stream - multiple data stream (MIMD) mode. This allows parallel algorithms to be expressed and coded in their most natural and efficient forms.

• Research Organization: Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6664284
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING
PARALLEL PROCESSING
ALGORITHMS
IMAGE PROCESSING
SIGNAL CONDITIONING
VECTOR PROCESSING
DATA PROCESSING
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
PROCESSING
PROGRAMMING
990210* - Supercomputers- (1987-1989)