Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons^™

High Performance Issues On Parallel Architectures, Peter J. Looges

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

In an effort to reduce communication latency in mesh-type architectures, these architectures have been augmented by various types of global and reconfigurable bus structures. The static bus structures provide excellent performance in many areas of computation especially structured numerical computations, but they lack the flexibility required of many large numerical and non-numerical applications. Reconfigurable bus systems have the dynamic adaptability to handle a much wider range of applications. While reconfigurable meshes can often yield constant time results for many problems, the cost of this performance is paid in the number of processors required. While in actuality the majority of these …