Table of Contents
Large Scale Machines: Design Issues, Realizing Programming Models, Message Passing
Admin
Review: Interconnection Networks
Generic Scalable Architecture
Network Transaction: A Common Building Block
Shared Address Space Model
Message Passing Programming Model
Synchronous Message Passing
Asynchronous Message Passing
Issues of a Network Transaction
Network Transaction Issues (Continued)
Common Challenges
Differences in Architectures
Architectural Design Space
Massively Parallel Procesor (MPP) Architectures
Network of Worstations
nCube2: Blind Physical DMA
Blind Physical DMA (Continued)
CM-5: User-Level Network Access
Dedicated Message Processors
Intel Paragon
Meiko CS-2
Shared Physical Address Space
T3E
T3E (continued)
Next Time
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Author: Alvin R. Lebeck
Email: alvy@cs.duke.edu
Home Page: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~alvy
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