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We describe the PCP/PFP programming models which we are using on the BBN TC2000. The parallel programming models are implemented in a portable manner and will be useful on the scalable shared memory machines we expect to see in the future. We then describe the TC20machine architecture which is a scalable general purpose parallel architecture capable of efficiently supporting both shared memory and message passing programming paradigms. We also briefly describe a PCP implementation of the Gauss elimination algorithm which exploits the large local memories on the TC2000.
Work performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-ENG-48.
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Brooks, E.D., Gorda, B.C., Warren, K.H. (1992). The PCP/PFP programming models on the BBN TC2000. In: Zima, H.P. (eds) Parallel Computation. ACPC 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 591. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55437-8_71
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