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Synchronous communication of cooperating processes in the M5PS multiprocessor

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CONPAR 86 (CONPAR 1986)

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Abstract

The M5PS* multiprocessor consists of a loosely coupled set of tightly coupled subsystems. Because of this heterogeneous interconnection network, transparent communication between cooperating processes is only possible by message passing. The communication mechanism implemented in the M5PS system supports port-addressed synchronous message passing of cooperating processes independently of the interconnection network. This paper discusses the implementation of this mechanism and presents execution times for communication primitives for different interconnection devices. The results are compared to communication of processes with shared variables. The comparsion reveals a significant overhead of transparent message passing as against synchronized communication via shared variables.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aachen Technical University, Schinkelstraße 2, D-5100, Aachen, W.-Germany

    J. Milde, T. Plückebaum & W. Ameling

  2. Dept. KLR-CF, Brown Boveri Research Center, CH-5405, Baden, Switzerland

    J. Milde

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Wolfgang Händler Dieter Haupt Rolf Jeltsch Wilfried Juling Otto Lange

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Milde, J., Plückebaum, T., Ameling, W. (1986). Synchronous communication of cooperating processes in the M5PS multiprocessor. In: Händler, W., Haupt, D., Jeltsch, R., Juling, W., Lange, O. (eds) CONPAR 86. CONPAR 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16811-7_164

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