Multicomputers: Message-passing concurrent computers
Highly concurrent computers achieve remarkable performance on the broad class of computations that can be formulated and expressed as concurrent programs. This performance is scalable in the number of computing elements, open-ended with technology advances, and low in cost. Several high concurrent or highly parallel systems are now commercially available, and innovative programmers are applying them successfully to a great variety of demanding computing problems. This article provides a status report on the architecture and programming of a family of message-passing concurrent computers that have evolved out of the research of the DARPA-sponsored Submicron Systems Architecture Project in the Caltech Computer Science Department. These systems are organized as ensembles of small programmable computers, called nodes, connected by a message-passing network. This multiple-computer structure has fittingly come to be known as a multicomputer.
- Research Organization:
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 7061732
- Journal Information:
- Computer; (United States), Journal Name: Computer; (United States) Vol. 21:8; ISSN CPTRB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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